Drake and Ariana Grande crush Spotify’s 2018 streams
06 December 2018 |
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Drake was named Spotify's top-streamed artist in 2015, 2016, 2017 and is holding on to the title in 2018. He also held the top-streamed album with 'Scorpion' and claimed the title of the top-streamed song with "God's Plan."
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