Drake has done it.
After dropping two new songs out of the sky last week, the Canadian superstar has premiered atop of the Billboard Hot 100 with one of the cuts – ‘God’s Plan.’ And the other isn’t far behind.
Details below…
The track debuts at #1 on the coveted tally after setting an on-demand streaming record.
‘Plan,’ which arrived as part of the ‘Scary Hours’ EP with ‘Diplomatic Immunity,’ amassed a colossal 82.4 million U.S. streams in its first week. 68 million of said streams were specifically generated on subscription services – shattering a prior weekly record achieved by Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Humble.’ (44 million in May 2017)
So what other stats mixed together to facilitate the #1?
Well, the cut received 127,000 downloads and a multi-format radio audience of 24 million.
So, as can be seen, Drizzy’s win is most definitely driven by digital domination.
Elsewhere, ‘Diplomatic Immunity’ launches at #7 on the Hot 100 – powered by 28.4 million U.S. streams and 39,000 downloads.
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Other Key Stats:
- ‘Plan’ is Drake’s fourth Hot 100 chart-topper and second as a lead act. He previously hit the top spot with two Rihanna jams – ‘What’s My Name’ (2010) and ‘Work’ (2016) before scoring with ‘Once Dance’ months later.
- This marks the rapper’s first #1 debut and the 29th every on the Hot 100.
- Drake becomes the first act in Billboard history to two songs in the top 10 of the Hot 100 simultaneously TWICE. He previously achieved the feat with ‘More Life’ ‘Passionfruit’ and ‘Portland’ – which opened at #8 and #9 respectively last year.
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The slayage real.
What Drake may lack in award wins, he more than makes up with by delivering tangible results.
And after a litany of upsets at last night’s Grammys, maybe that ought to be the goal for some of the snubbed.
It’s sooo many grammitcal errors in this article. Proof read please!!!
Congrats Drake!
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There are* lmao
Grammatical
Fix it Jesus Prince of Phonics!
Wow drake is unstoppable
So will he help Nicki repair her career?
Nicki is the female artist and only female rapper with the most Hot 100 entries in HISTORY. Doesn’t look like her career needs any help, thank you.
Nearly ALL of those are features, b**** been getting helped all her damn career!
But no number 1
I think she has retired and forgot to announce it.
LOL and still Nicki has yet to get #1 for herself, with and without Aubrey’s help. #KimmyVoodoo
Congrats Drake!
Because she’s too busy collecting PLAQUES for PURE SALES. How did going to #1 help Cardi B at the Grammys last night? Exactly.
She collecting plaques for pure sale yet in 2014 she the MLK for the streaming movement. All she talked about was streams being counted as sales.
She been collecting plaques for pure sale yet in 2014 she was the MLK for the streaming movement. All she talked about was streams being counted as sales. Finally got her wish and still flopped with added entries on top of what she had. What’s the point of gloating about 90 entries if NONE of them went to #1 in 8 years?
ma’am this photo is VERY touched by an angel smh
So no cabilou reign anymore?
camila? LMFAOOOOO
This is a joke. He is one of these digital queens. I remember how he stayed at #1 for many weeks over Beyonce on album chart but Beyonce was selling more real units week after week than him. Embarrassing this industry and some stans now.
get with the times and get over it.
Nope. A streaming sale doesn’t equal to an actual sale. So you get with that. His pure sales are actually great too.
@JOHNVIDAL And he blocked Ariana Grande from hitting number 1 with her album even though she was selling more than him too. The charts are a joke.
The SLAYAGE!
#KimmyVoodoo
Congrats Drake!
argh…was hoping Finesse would go #1
Finesse is steady and ready lol…don’t worry!
Can we please proof read. There are many basic errors in this article.
Isn’t he a Pop-rap Star?!!
Finesse finna drop out of top 40 next week