HIP-HOP Drake's Surprise Album Sets Spotify Records

Drake performs at the Bootsy Bellows Pop Up event on January 31, 2015, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' beat out Drake's last album for the most-streamed debut week in Spotify history.

Drake's surprise album has set records on Spotify.

The music-streaming service said Tuesday (Feb. 17) that the rapper's new album, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, set the record for most streams from an album in its debut week in the U.S. Songs from the album, released Friday, were streamed more than 17.3 million times in three days.

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Drake's 2013 album, Nothing Was the Same, previously had the record for most streams in a debut week with 15.8 million.

The new album also set a record for most streams in a single day for an album in the U.S. with 6.8 million streams on Saturday.

The album will sell about 500,000 units in its first week, Billboard reported earlier.