USA Today Music — Fueled by huge streaming activity, the rapper's 'Views' trumps '25' in overall numbers.             more info

Idolator — Blake talks about industry dynamics in new Spotify artist series. more info

Stereogum — In the few months that they’ve been doing their NBC variety show Maya & Marty, Saturday Night Live vets Maya Rudolph and Martin Short have pulled some impressive music-related stunts: Covering Leonard Cohen with Miley Cyrus, interviewing Drake whil... more info

AllHipHop — DRAKE'S SUCCESS KEEPS GOING! more info

Stereogum — Around the time Garth Brooks launched his comeback two years ago, he also launched his own streaming platform called GhostTunes. It’s the only place you can buy Brooks’ music digitally or stream it legally. Apparently you can also purchase popula... more info

Stereogum — Drake’s aggressively boring Views was riding high on the top spot of the Billboard 200 chart for 9 straight weeks since its release in April, but it was unseated last week by Blink-182’s new album. Rest assured, however, Drake’s latest effort w... more info

Stereogum — After scoring a #1 album and finally ending Drake’s interminable run atop the charts, ’90s pop-punk kings Blink-182 took a victory lap last night, doing musical-guest duties on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert. On the show, they played “Bored... more info

Mjsbigblog — Today’s thread is brought to you by the numbers 10, 37, 110M and 160.9M Drake’s “One Dance” continues to top the Hot 100 chart this week for a ninth week. This ties his longest run at the top of the chart which he set earlier this year when h... more info

People.com — Drake and Rihanna met Megan Flores in March more info

AllHipHop — SHOULD DRAKE BE CONSIDERED IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS K. DOT & J. COLE? more info