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Drakeā€™s ā€˜Godā€™s Planā€™ Debuts at No. 1 As God Planned

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Streaming often shakes up the Billboard charts and thatā€™s never more true than with Drake. He recently dropped a two-song EP without warning and heā€™s now achieved his fourth No. 1 song (though its only his second as lead artist). His new track ā€œGodā€™s Planā€ has debuted on this weekā€™s Hot 100 on top, breaking the on-demand streaming record (68 million streams), which counts paid-subscription services, and earning the fourth-biggest overall streaming week ever (82.4 million streams), behind Baauerā€™s ā€œHarlem Shakeā€ (for two separate weeks) and Taylor Swiftā€™s ā€œLook What You Made Me Do.ā€ Shortly after its release, ā€œGodā€™s Planā€ broke both Apple Music and Spotifyā€™s single-day records.

But thatā€™s not all: The other track on the EP, ā€œDiplomatic Immunity,ā€ has also debuted at No. 7, making him only the second artist in history to debut two songs on the Top 10 simultaneously, after Ed Sheeran did it last year. Though ā€œGodā€™s Planā€ is Drakeā€™s fourth No. 1 (ā€œOne Danceā€ was his last), this is his first No. 1 debut. Drake waited years for his first-ever solo No. 1, initially missing out for ā€œHotline Bling,ā€ but now thanks to streaming metrics, itā€™s a piece of cake. Whoeverā€™s plan this was, itā€™s clearly working.

Drakeā€™s ā€˜Godā€™s Planā€™ Debuts at No. 1