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# Drake Is First To Stream 1 Billion Times In Debut Week
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/drake-is-first-to-stream-1-billion-times-in-debut-week/
- Published: 2018-07-09T09:50:43.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-09T09:50:43.000Z
- Description: Drake continues to break streaming music records with his fifth album '"Scorpion". Tracks from the new release streamed 1 billion streams globally in its first week, Republic Records has confirmed. In. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/07/drake-is-first-to-stream-1-billion-time
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, Streaming, Apple Music, Drake, Spotify, streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

[![Drake](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad359ba65200c-200wi "Drake")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad359ba65200c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Drake continues to break streaming music records with his fifth album '"Scorpion". Tracks from the new release streamed 1 billion streams globally in its first week, Republic Records has confirmed. In the US, the story was much the same.In it's first week, Scorpion's US streams easily beat Post Malone’s 431 million debut week for "Beerbong & Bentleys" earlier this year, according to Billboard.