CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
Canadian rap superstar Drake has broken historic streaming records with his new album “Scorpion” – with fans nearly clocking up 1000 years worth of listening time since it’s release on Friday.
Apple Music and Spotify both reporting unprecedented listenership in its first day, with Apple Music confirming that Drake’s fifth studio album was streamed 170 million times in the 24 hours since its drop.
The former child star’s numbers are the highest ever reported by any streaming service for an album over one day and comes even though Apple Music significantly trails industry leader Spotify in users.
The album, which has been teased for over a year, has hit the charts with momentum following his recent rap beef with Pusha T and several other G.O.O.D Music Rivals.
However, while the monstrous hip hop release has done everything it needed to appease his hundreds of millions of fans around the world, it appears to pretty much be just 25 songs of Drake talking about how he would like to be inside a female’s head for a couple hours.
Arguably the biggest album release of the last few years, Scorpion appears to pretty much just be 90 minutes of the Canadian rap star detailing how women confuse him, and how he thinks that everything they say and do must be a multi-layered and cryptic social cue – in the same way a mid-2000s teenager would slave over a crush’s top eight friends.
In fact the only other themes that appear in this album is how hard Drake works, and how he now has a son, a feeling that he is yet to also understand.
