Canadian rapper Drake shattered records with his last album “Scorpion”. This album became the first to score one billion streams in its first week. The previous record was set by Post Malone. Drake sold 713,000 units in the United States for the first week, Post Malone almost 700 million.
“Scorpion” also gaveDrake seven songs in the top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles charts.
Streaming services are right now the recordings industry’s biggest single revenue source overtaking sales of of physical albums and digital downloads. Hip hop became in 2017 the biggest music genre in the United States surpassing rock.
