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The early success of Views definitely put Drake into the upper echelon of record breaking when it comes to numbers. Not only did he get his first No. 1 single with One Dance, sell over a million copies in the first week and debut at number 1, but all the hype around the album caused a frenzy of fans to wonder what exactly it was all about and made him the most streamed artist on Spotify ever.

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So much for that Apple deal ey? Billboard reported that Justin Bieber previously held the title as Most Streamed Artist with 3.176 billion streams, followed by Ed Sheeran with 2.153 billion, and The Weeknd with 2.044 billion, until Drake dethroned them with 3,212,916,882 plays.

However, it shall be noted that “based on all daily and weekly top 200 data as provided by Spotify. Therefore totals will be lower than an artist/song’s actual streams.”

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