“I was a ghostwriter for years and got paid close to nothing just for major labels to profit,” Ghostwriter977 wrote in the video comments. The viral track, “Heart on my Sleeve,” comes from an anonymous TikTok user named Ghostwriter977, who claims to have used artificial intelligence to generate the voices of Drake and The Weeknd for the track. But there’s a twist: Drake and The Weeknd appear to have had nothing to do with it. Since the release of Scorpion, Drake has also released the Care Package compilation album in 2019 and the Dark Lane Demo Tapes collection of rarities, the latter of which featured viral track ‘Toosie Slide’.One of the buzziest songs recently circulating on TikTok and climbing the Spotify charts featured the familiar voices of best-selling artists Drake and the Weeknd. A month prior, engineer Noel Cadastre said the LP was 90 per cent complete but “y’all gonna have to wait on that last 10 per cent”.Ĭertified Lover Boy will be the follow-up to Drake’s 2018 album, Scorpion. It had been rumored that the record could emerge this month, but so far no announcement has been made.īack in November, the rapper acknowledged that he expects some people will “hate on” Certified Lover Boy like they did with his 2016 album Views.Ĭertified Lover Boy was first announced when Drake released the lead single, “Laugh Now, Cry Later” featuring Lil Durk, back in August. Future, who has regularly collaborated with Drake over the years, congratulated his fellow rapper on Twitter yesterday.ĭrake’s next album, Certified Lover Boy, is set to be released this year. The independent music data website, ChartMasters, backs this claim up, calculating that Drake has clocked up 35.72 billion streams of his own songs and 14.30 billion streams of “featured streams” (such as tracks he has guested on), taking his combined total to just over 50 billions streams on Spotify.ĭrake acknowledged his streaming achievement on his Instagram Stories yesterday. He is the first artist in history to hit this milestone. has now surpassed 50 billion streams on Spotify across all credits.

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