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Drake is the First Featured Artist to Achieves 10 Billion Streams on Apple Music

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Less than a month since the release of Drake’s fifth studio album, Scorpion, he has trail-blazed his way into new record-breaking territories achieving 10 billion streams on Apple music and being the first featured artist to do so. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Contrary to reports that claimed Drake was missing out on over a […]

Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ Breaks Every Apple Music Record

Drake's 'Scorpion' Breaks Every Apple Music Record

In less than a week, Drake’s Scorpion is skyrocketing on the music charts and shattering Apple Music records, including becoming the number one album on the Apple Music charts in 92 different countries almost instantaneously and becoming the fastest-growing album ever on the service. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information In about 24 hours, Drizzy’s fifth studio […]

Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ is Projected to Move 920K Units

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Drake just stands for Do.Right.And.Kill.Everything. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information After pulling in 300 million worldwide streams in about a day, Drake’s double album, Scorpion, is projected to move 870-920,000 units in its first week, as per HITS Daily Double. Of that number, 275-300,000 are traditional sales. Not only will Drizzy be reigning atop Billboard charts, but […]

Google to Relaunch Music Streaming Service as ‘YouTube Music’

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Spotify, Apple Music, and TIDAL will now have more competition as YouTube Music is joining the mix of the streaming world. Google has announced the relaunch of YouTube Music, their streaming for this coming Tuesday, May 22. It will feature two versions, one is free with ads and the other will carry a $9.99 price […]

Apple Music, Pandora Pulls R. Kelly’s Music

Apple Music, Pandora Pulls R. Kelly's Music

Apple Music and Pandora are the latest streaming platforms to pull R. Kelly’s music following calls to boycott the singer. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Pandora issued a statement saying they have a policy to not promote controversial artists. Pandora’s policy is to not actively promote artists with certain demonstrable behavioral, ethical or criminal issues, […]

J. Cole’s ‘KOD’ Breaks Drake’s ‘Views’ Apple Music Streaming Record

J. Cole's 'KOD' Breaks Drake's 'Views' Apple Music Streaming Record

J. Cole fans rejoiced when they learned that he was finally putting out some new music. KOD was released on Friday, April 20th and people are certainly buzzing about it. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The last track “1985” ruffled a lot of the new rapper’s feathers, but apparently Hip Hop lovers have the project […]

Drake Announces Next Album ‘Scorpion’ will be Released in June

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After a short hiatus from the music scene, Drake returned to music and to the charts with “God’s Plan” back in January. With 12 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, Drake beat his own record making “God’s Plan” his longest leading No. 1 record, with “One Dance” coming in at a close […]

Rich Homie Quan Releases Debut Album, ‘Rich As In Spirit’

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A lot has changed for Rich Homie Quan after receiving quite the success during the early stages of his career with his breakout song “Type of Way,” and originally being affiliated with Birdman’s Rich Gang label, and even closer affiliation with his former partner in crime, Young Thug. After not releasing any new work for […]

Apple Music Now Worth $10 Billion

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Words by Comfort Nnana Kalu Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Apple Music is in line with other great to dominate the music streaming space. Apple has apparently experienced low sales in their latest update but because of the growth of their streaming services it has not damaged their name as a whole. U.S. Money News […]

Drake And Future Are The Two Most Streamed Artists Of 2017

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Streaming has become the de facto route for music consumers to listen to music. Per a report on Buzz Angle Music by Variety.com, Spotify has reached over 60 million subscribers while Apple Music reports 30 million subscribers. In all, there were 377 billion streams-which is up 127 billion from 2016. Hip-hop, Pop, and R&B also account for […]

The Revolution Will Be Spotified: The Ex-Stream Wars Rage On

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Words by Khari Clarke Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information From our #267 issue On March 30 of this year, Shawn Carter, better known as Jay Z, held a conference to announce the launch of his newly acquired, Sweden-based music streaming service, TIDAL. At the time, another Sweden-based company, Spotify, occupied an overwhelming portion of the […]

Travis Scott & Quavo Finally Release Joint Album ‘Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho’

Travis Scott & Quavo Finally Release Joint Album 'Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho'

Yesterday, [December 19th], both Travis Scott and Quavo teased Instagram post separately, one illustrating Huncho and the other illustrating Jack, in which they both used the captions “Merry Christmas”. Fans were already on edge ready to finally be able to listen to this highly anticipated collaboration album yet somewhat relieved at the fact that they […]

Cardi B, Offset Debut New Collaboration: “Um Yea”

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Shortly after the arrival of the “Motorsport” video, Cardi B and Offset began to promote their collaboration song “Um Yea,” and fans are raving about the chemistry between these two — so much so that Cardi’s Twitter followers have her contemplating convincing Offset to do a collaboration album or mixtape. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information […]

Jaden Smith Releases Brand New Debut Album ‘SYRE’

Jaden Smith Releases Brand New Debut Album 'SYRE'

After officially confirming the release of a new album back in October, Jaden Smith made true on his promise and released SYRE this past Friday, November 17th. The making of SYRE began a little over three years ago coming to completion as a 17-track album featuring A$AP Rocky, Atlanta artist, Raury, Princess Pia Mia, and […]

Dreka Gates Releases ‘By Any Means 2’ on Kevin Gates Behalf

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Although Gates is behind bars it hasn’t stopped him from providing his fans with consistent new releases to keep him top of mind and tip of tongue during his prison stint. Since being incarcerated in October, Gates and his team have managed to release a new song titled ‘What If’ and later finally releasing the […]

Apple Lands New Licensing Deal With Warner Music

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Apple Music users will be able to enjoy tunes from Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars for the foreseeable future. Fresh off its recent deal with Spotify, Warner Music has signed off on an agreement with the tech giant, according to sources that spoke to Bloomberg. The deal is Apple’s first with a major label since […]

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