Drake's 'Views' Album Becomes First to Reach Over 1 Billion Streams on Apple Music

[bpeeps]

I can see birdman rubbing his hands now...

but really, not shocked. Views was a masterpiece.

Views was garbage, save for the obvious radio friendly songs. Nothing Was The Same was ten times better.

 

[jicon]

Cue with shirt tucked in to pants? Good on ya buddy.

 

[bpeeps]

stop making stupid people famous....

Drake was famous well before he became exclusive with Apple Music. It was an apt try though.

 

[Zedcars]

Any relation to Charlie Drake?

'My Boomerang Won't Come Back' is a particular favourite of mine and was quite a hit back in the day...

 

[Internet Enzyme]

Poor eddy standing to the side not getting any love from drake

 

[0958400]

Craig was right: Apple is being ruled by Marketing now. Congrats Drake, but I'd rather have different news from Apple, who has just become a music publisher, losing its credibility as a computer industry. But then again, they are also a bank...

 

[bpeeps]

Helped him with the production of the music? Huh? This was executive produced by 40, just as all of Drake's albums have been. There are fewer collaborators on this album than pretty much any prior Drake album.

You think showing up awkwardly on stage at an Apple Keynote for 10 minutes gave him an unfair advantage to get one billion streams?

His music and album are in every playlist because the album sold 1.2M first week, has a #1 and #2 single, and is what the people want to hear.

Give credit where credit is due.

It's people being upset at Drake because he's rich, famous, and they don't like his music. They mask it in whatever nonsense drivel they can come up and it shows they have no idea what they're talking.

 

[WinstonRumfoord]

If Drake wants a mac desktop with swappable drive bays and GFX card, would that help make it so?

 

[theatremusician]

Congrats, Drake. Here's your check for $.12 for your billion streams.

Folks, please, if you're going to listen to a song more than once, please purchase the track. Thanks on behalf of all recording artists.

 

[bpeeps]

I've never heard of drake...

Well the rest of the world has, congrats.

 

[copykris]

a great testament to the sad state of music

 

[macs4nw]

The future of Apple becomes clearer every day ... phones, watches, and Apple Music.

Thank you for that observation..... A man can only take so much depressing news in one day..... and I'll likely need more room for that after watching tonight's 'slugfest' from Hofstra Univ. , we're screwed.

 

[a.gomez]

Unless they found a way to reanimate Brahms or Stravinsky - I could care less about exclusives. I remember when Apple sold itself - not this new pandering to the flavor of the month.

 

[HiVolt]

Wake me up when Apple Music stops focusing & promoting silly hiphop/rap and the like of wannabe gangstas like Drake...

 

[blacktape242]

Drake was famous well before he became exclusive with Apple Music. It was an apt try though.

Im well aware of him being in a kids show... BAM!
Challenge accepted and won...

 

[bpeeps]

Unless they found a way to reanimate Brahms or Stravinsky - I could care less about exclusives. I remember when Apple sold itself - not this new pandering to the flavor of the month.

The flavor of the month has been making music for 10 years now; but sure, believe what warped things you want to believe.

 

[dogslobber]

Never heard of him...

Eddy Cue dances to his beat on stage.

 

[RedOrchestra]

And there's poor Eddy ... Apple's water boy.

 

[tonyr6]

I have never and will never stream one byte of Drake or whatever stupid name he is called. New music is nothing but noise to me now when I think it can't get worse the following year it does.

 

[milo]

1,000,000,000 streams / 15,000,000 Apple music subscribers = an average of 67 streams per user over the course of 149 days since the release of Views. Yeah, right...

Maybe the billion counts streams of the songs from the album? With twenty songs on the album that would average about three listens per user which is much more plausible.

 

[lunarworks]

The future of Apple becomes clearer every day ... phones, watches, and Apple Music.

I've been using Apple computers for 30 years, but if they had simply stuck to computers they'd be a best irrelevant, and at worst a footnote in computer history. The iPod and iPhone are why you can still buy a Mac today.

Wake me up when Apple Music stops focusing & promoting silly hiphop/rap and the like of wannabe gangstas like Drake...

Yes, that notorious gangsta rapper Elton John.

 

[DotCom2]

Doesn't Tim Cook remind you of this kid?

They do dance the same

Tim looks like he's swimming right there. Maybe that's where he got the idea for the Apple Watch.

 

[milo]

Congrats on having the cheapest fans in the world (who won't buy your music but will stream it)?

I guess you missed where the article said it also sold over a million copies in the first five days...

 

[macduke]

Two posts about Drake within a few hours? Maybe Drake will be the new Pokemon Go on MacRumors! Maybe he'll make an app next, or Apple will release some special edition Drake AirPods. Maybe he'll be on that new show about apps that Apple is producing. Or possibly featured in Carpool Karaoke with Craig Federighi at the Mac/iPad Pro/Apple TV 4K/Siri Box Thingy keynote next month. The possibilities are endless, but there is one thing I know for sure: I can't wait for more DrakeRumors!

 

[arftech99]

I have never and will never stream one byte of Drake or whatever stupid name he is called. New music is nothing but noise to me now when I think it can't get worse the following year it does.

You must be getting old! Me, I'm waiting on my JB iPhone 7 Plus!