Drake Becomes First Artist To Get 100 Billion Spotify Streams
Drake has officially turn out to be the initially artist in history to attain 100 billion streams on Spotify.
The significant feat occurred on Tuesday (June 18), just two months immediately after it was reported that he was closing in on the milestone at 97 billion streams. Chart Data reported the news, which was then confirmed by means of KWORB, which keeps track of streams and rankings for distinctive platforms.
Taylor Swift is the the closest to the Toronto native at No. 2, but he nevertheless has really the lead as she is at present sitting at 84.4 billion streams.
In other news, Pharrell has seemingly joined the bandwagon of artists taking shots at Drake, obtaining possibly alluded to the 6 God on the new track “Double Life.”
The song is set to be featured on the Despicable Me 4 Soundtrack, which is due out July 3.
On it, he raps: “Lie detector time/ Hey, what are you hiding?/ Nothing wrong being private/ Make sure it ain’t wrong.”
Fans had been swift to notice the bars, with a single user commenting in a tweet about the song: “Drake about to stop Adonis from ever watching Despicable Me.”
Another added: “Not he turned his minions song to a diss [crying emoji].”
Others had been swift to shut down the rumors.
“I think these lyrics have to do with Gru, not drake [skull emoji],” a single wrote whilst yet another stated: “Pharrell doing anything to stay relevant after falling off over a decade ago [crying emoji].”
Drake is also getting taken to court for employing a phrase on his merchandise that also occurs to be the name of an established apparel brand.
Last Tuesday (June 12), Billboard reported that style enterprise Members Only filed a lawsuit against’s Drizzy’s Away From Home Touring Inc. in New York federal court for infringing their trademark.
The case pertains to the Canadian superstar promoting merchandise on-line as nicely as on his It’s All a Blur Tour that has “Members Only” stamped on them. It is vital to note that he is not getting accused of distributing counterfeit merchandise, thinking about the phrase in query is also the title of a song released on For All The Dogs final year.
To that point, the brand’s existing owners JR Apparel World LLC have argued: “The fact that ‘Members Only’ is a song on Drake’s album ‘For All the Dogs’ does not obviate the likelihood of confusion or give [him] a license to use our client’s ‘Members Only’ marks in such a confusing manner, particularly on or in connection with apparel items.”
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Based on United States trademark law, the context of how the phrase has been applied is important.
The 6 God’s choice to release a song titled “Members Only” does not produce confusion with the enterprise of the very same name, but promoting merchandise with stated words might, for the reason that they’ve been promoting the very same things for decades now.
For that explanation, Members Only has claimed that its status as a “famous household name” is getting leveraged and distorted by Drake’s merchandise.
The 37-year-old rapper and singer has however to comment on the ordeal.
