Drake’s album Scorpion was released on June 29 and in just two weeks' time, the album has leveled streaming records, created a classic and nearly three No.1 hits on the Billboard top 100.
Scorpion, which was released via Young Money/ Cash Money/ Republic Records, just had the biggest streaming week EVER for an album.
The 25-track album racked up 745.92 million on-demand audio streams, which nearly doubled Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys that tracked 431.3 million back on May 12.
But we can focus on the fact that this is Drake’s eighth No.1 album, tying the likes of Kanye West and Eminem for the second-most credited No.1 albums among hip-hop artist in the history of the chart—second to Jay Z and The Beatles.
He currently has seven songs in The Billboard Hot 100: 1) "Nice For What," 2) "Nonstop," 4) "Gods Plan," 6) "In My Feelings," 7) "Im Upset," 8) "Emotionless," 9) "Don't Matter to Me," featuring Michael Jackson.
This mark breaks the Beatles record of five simultaneous Hot 100 top 10s.
Or that this album is the first to hit 1 billion streams for its songs globally in a single week, at a later date.
Click next as we dissect the matrix of the A-side and B-side of Scorpion, which concurrently encompasses Drake, the musician, and the Rubik’s Cube that is his makeup as an artist and person at this point in his career.