Drake's Scorpion pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week

As expected, Drake's fifth album Scorpion has pulled in over 1 billion streams globally in its first week, Drake's label Republic Records confirms to The Verge. The album also broke the US streaming record with 745.92 million streams in its first week, according to Billboard, easily beating Post Malone's Beerbong & Bentleys, which put up 431 million streams in its first week earlier this year. Scorpion racked up record breaking totals this week, toppling single-day records on Spotify, Apple Musi...