Drake's Dance Album Shatters Apple Music First-Day Streaming Records - EDM.com

Break out the champagne, Champagne Papi.

Drake’s latest and seventh studio album Honestly, Nevermind has damaged Apple Music’s record for the most first-day streams for a dance album. And it only took 1 hour.

Since the 35-calendar year-previous hip-hop celebrity only gave 1 day’s see in advance of he released the album, achieving such a history is pretty amazing, even taking into consideration Drake’s prominence in the up to date music landscape.

A departure for Drake, Truthfully, Nevermind has been simmering in a melting pot of blended critiques considering the fact that its shock launch on Friday, June 17th. Government-developed by Grammy-profitable dwelling audio artist Black Coffee, the album is dominated by digital-concentrated generation from the likes of Espresso, Carnage, Rampa, &ME and Alex Lustig, amid many others.

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According to Billboard, Drake’s sixth album Accredited Lover Boy, which was launched in September 2021, broke Apple Music’s file for most to start with-day streams around the globe. It also at the moment retains the record for the most important album in the platform’s background. 2018’s Scorpion presently has the 2nd most 1st-day streams on Apple New music, for every Billboard.

It would seem Truthfully, Nevermind was an attempt by Drake to stage out of his convenience zone throughout a complicated time in his particular lifetime. When he dropped the album, he shared an personal observe with fans through Apple Audio, which you can examine in full under.

I let my humbleness convert to numbness at occasions allowing time go by figuring out I received the stamina to catch it an additional time

I get the job done with just about every breath in my body cause it is the get the job done not air that helps make me come to feel alive

That is some authentic harmful shit but which is that shit my perfectionist intellect doesn’t actually intellect for the reason that no a person is aware of whats on my mind when I go to sleep at 9 & wake up at 5 – unless I say it in rhyme

I cannot bear in mind the previous time an individual put they mobile phone down, looked me in the eyes and asked my existing perception on the moments

But I bear in mind each individual solitary time somebody shined a mild in my eyes

I purposely try to ignore what went on among some ppl and I simply because I know I’m not a forgiving guy even when I test

My urge for revenge wins the recreation versus my good guy inside of every single one fckn time

I bought ideas I can’t converse about with a lot more than like 4 fellas mainly because the final time I shared em with a person on the outside…well that’s another story for a different evening

I was tryna get via that assertion to get to declaring I’m not @ a time in my life exactly where pats on the shoulder support get me by

I’ll take loyalty around an oh my & emoji fireplace

I know if it was a darkish night in which all the odds had been from my facet & my ability went to whoever took my existence they’d accomplished me off with a major smile & possibly evn write-up it for some likes

I know every person that tells me they enjoy me does not love me all the time primarily when im performing superior than alright & they have to watch it from whichever stage they at in their lifestyle

I bought right here getting real looking

I didn’t get right here staying blind

I know whats what and especially what and who is by my side

Honestly…Nevermind.

Dedicated TO OUR BROTHER V

-Drake