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Drake Beats Drake: How Rap's Sensitive Giant Smashed Records With 'More Life'

Drake set streaming records last week, an album chart record on Monday and singles chart records today. How'd he do it?
Drake in 2016, just before he released <em>Views</em>, which would go on to be the year's most successful album.

On March 18, Drake released , 22 songs packaged as what he's calling a playlist and what everyone else (including the streaming svengalis at Apple Music and Spotify) have categorized as an album. Whatever you call it, on Monday, announced that had arrived at the top of the 200, which tracks the performance of the world's most popular albums, mostly through fans streaming it on Spotify and Apple Music. And today, the Toronto-born rapper broke his own record for most simultaneous songs on 's Hot 100 singles chart — all 22 songs on plus appearances on two hits by other

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