Referring to the Los Angeles Lakers basketball player who’s earning a rough salary of $45 million for the current 2022-2023 season, according to Bleacher Report, Drake seems to be requesting a hefty lump sum of money. I have enough dinner plates MORE:ĭrake’s OVO Collaborates With NFL And Lil Wayne For New Collection Just In Time For Super Bowl Photo: Instagram/ ChampagnePapi “We should get bonuses like athletes to motivate the future artists to be consistent and competitive,” he captioned a screenshot of the historic achievement, shared to his Instagram Story on Wednesday. “So feel free to send me a LeBron-sized. Instead of receiving shiny plaques, Drake says Spotify should give artists a pay cheque. Since the release of Scorpion, Drake has also released the Care Package compilation album in 2019 and the Dark Lane Demo Tapes collection of rarities, the latter of which featured viral track ‘Toosie Slide’.The rapper, who just became the first artist ever to surpass 75 billion streams on the popular music platform, wants to see a change in how musicians are rewarded for their achievements. A month prior, engineer Noel Cadastre said the LP was 90 per cent complete but “y’all gonna have to wait on that last 10 per cent”.Ĭertified Lover Boy will be the follow-up to Drake’s 2018 album, Scorpion. It had been rumored that the record could emerge this month, but so far no announcement has been made.īack in November, the rapper acknowledged that he expects some people will “hate on” Certified Lover Boy like they did with his 2016 album Views.Ĭertified Lover Boy was first announced when Drake released the lead single, “Laugh Now, Cry Later” featuring Lil Durk, back in August.

Future, who has regularly collaborated with Drake over the years, congratulated his fellow rapper on Twitter yesterday.ĭrake’s next album, Certified Lover Boy, is set to be released this year. The independent music data website, ChartMasters, backs this claim up, calculating that Drake has clocked up 35.72 billion streams of his own songs and 14.30 billion streams of “featured streams” (such as tracks he has guested on), taking his combined total to just over 50 billions streams on Spotify.ĭrake acknowledged his streaming achievement on his Instagram Stories yesterday.

He is the first artist in history to hit this milestone. has now surpassed 50 billion streams on Spotify across all credits.

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