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Drake’s ‘More Life’ album shatters streaming records
“More Life,” the new album by the rapper Drake, released Saturday, broke the record for most streams in a single week in the U.S. with 385 million streams, according to Nielsen.
The album, which also sold 225,000 copies, made its debut at the top of the Billboard albums chart with the equivalent of 505,000 copies.
Drake previously held the record for most album streams in a week with his 2016 album “Views,” with 245 million streams.
The rapper also set a record for the most streams in a single day on one streaming service, with “More Life” racking up nearly 90 million streams in its first 24 hours on Apple Music, a record that Ed Sheeran set with 57 million streams for “Divide” on Spotify on March 3, according to The Verge.
While Drake isn’t calling his new 22-song collection an “album,” instead
Miller quits ‘Dance Moms’ before fraud sentencing
“Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller says she has quit the Lifetime reality series ahead of her scheduled May sentencing on federal bankruptcy fraud charges.
Miller posted Sunday on Instagram that she will no longer take part in the show. She says she has asked for creative credit for her ideas for the show for six years, but hasn’t received it. She says she has been “manipulated, disrespected and used.”
A&E Networks, which includes Lifetime, declined to comment on the post.
Miller pleaded guilty in June to hiding about $775,000 from a bankruptcy court after filing for Chapter 11.