It was meant to be only a mixtape but Drake’s fans were yearning so much for a project that the numbers are going through the roof.
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late has sold close to 500k in the first week (more like 4 days actually), thereby going Gold in the opening week itself. But there’s more he can be proud of.
Streaming giant Spotify has announced that the tape has set the record for most streams from an album in its debut week in the U.S. Songs from the album which were released this past Friday were streamed more than 17.3 million times in just three days. He has broken his own record as Nothing Was the Same previously held the the record for most streams in a debut week with 15.8 million.
In addition to this, IYRTITL (read our review here) also set a record for most streams in a single day for an album in the U.S. with 6.8 million streams on Saturday.
Wayyyy up!
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