The Weeknd dominated the weekend at Spotify at record levels, registering the most streams on Spotify in a single day, Saturday (11/26)—and then broke his own record on Monday (11/28). According to SpotifyCharts.com, the XO/Republic star scored 31.6m streams on 11/26, and 34.6m+ on Monday.
By the time the smoke had cleared, The Weeknd had set all-time Spotify world records for most-streamed artist in a single day, with north of 40m, and most-streamed album first-week both globally (223m+) and in the U.S. (124m+). He'd also shattered the worldwide streaming record with 400m cumulative streams for the week, 270m coming from Apple Music. His global sales-plus-streaming total exceeded 1m during debut week.
Because ATRL acts like metacritic scores have a correlation to sales and commercial success, and that if you don't have at least an 80 on MC your career is finished.
Because ATRL acts like metacritic scores have a correlation to sales and commercial success, and that if you don't have at least an 80 on MC your career is finished.