Drake beats David Bowie to turn best-selling artist of 2016
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LONDON: Canadian rapper Drake has turn a best-selling recording artist of 2016, violence a late stone idol David Bowie all a approach adult to a tip spot, pronounced a International Federation of a Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Wednesday.
The ranking by a tellurian attention physique showed Drake scored worldwide success with his fourth manuscript Views, that is an paper to his local city of Toronto. The bestseller for a year 2015 was British thespian Adele.
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Views became a initial manuscript to strech one billion streams on Apple Music, while One Dance – a album’s second singular – was a initial strain to be played one billion times on Spotify, IFPI pronounced in a statement. IFPI arch executive Frances Moore stated, “Drake’s unusual success reflects how deeply his singular sound appeals to a huge tellurian audience.”
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Bowie – who expelled his final manuscript Blackstar only dual days before he died in Jan final year – came second. His manuscript surfaced a charts in 24 countries, IFPI reported.
British rockers Coldplay came third, followed by Adele, Justin Bieber, Twenty One Pilots, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Prince and The Weeknd.
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