Drake's much-awaited new album 'Views' has proven to be a notch higher than Beyonce's album 'Lemonade' after amassing more than half-billion streams.
The 29-year-old rapper broke the streaming records in each of the three weeks his new album was put on sale, beating the 'Halo' hit-maker's album, which had pulled in 115 million streams, Channel.24 reports.
Within its first week, the 'Views' got 245 million views and in the following week, it amassed 141 million streams before reaching up to the 185 million-mark in the last week.
Notably, in the US alone, the 'Jumpman' hit-maker's album amassed a total of 572 million streams.
Drake has even overtaken Justin Bieber and has become the most-streamed artist on the Spotify.
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