J. Cole bests Drake for first-day streaming record on Apple Music and Spotify
By Reuters
25 April 2018 |
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J. Cole bests Drake for first-day streaming record on Apple Music and Spotify Cole’s new album, ‘KOD,’ topped the Canadian’s ‘Views’ over the weekend. ‘KOD’ was streamed a total of 64.5 million times on Apple Music, beating ‘Views’ by nearly one million streams.
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