Drake also appeared on stage at the 2015 launch of Apple Music and signed a deal with the company worth a reported $19 million that included the launch of his own OVO Sound Radio show on its Beats 1 radio station. After two weeks of exclusive availability on Apple Music, fans who use the other major streaming services. It has since gone on to spurn thousands of memes and join an elite group of videos with more than a billion views on YouTube. Tidal and Spotify users rejoice You can now stream Drake 's new album Views From the 6. Still, the rapper has a significant history with Spotify's competition, Apple. The company premiered his 'Hotline Bling' video as an exclusive.

1 hit 'One Dance' surpassed Major Lazer's 'Lean On' to become the most-streamed song in Spotify's history with 924.5 million streams. This isn't the only milestone Drake has reached on Spotify. By comparison, Views has been streamed more than a billion times on Apple Music, becoming the first album to do so on Apple's streaming service. The album didn't hit Spotify and other streaming services until May 13.

This is an even more impressive feat considering the rapper originally released his latest studio album as an Apple Music exclusive back in April. Drake's Viewshas now racked up more than three billion streams on Spotify. As Billboard pointed out, Music Ally tallied up the total number of the album's streams and found that the album has been streamed 3,043,000,000 times as of Monday.

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