Chance the Rapper Got Half a Million Dollars From Apple for His Coloring Book Album

Yup! Chicago rapper, Chance the Rapper was paid $500,000 by Apple to have his album, Coloring Book exclusively on their platform for two weeks. He said this on Twitter while letting people know he is still fully independent, but might do some short term deals with different companies if the money is right.

Read his Tweets on this below. 

I never felt the need to correct folks on my relationship with @apple but now that more people have tried to discredit my independence..

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 17, 2017

I wanna clear things up. @apple gave me half a mil and a commercial to post Coloring Book exclusively on applemusic for 2 weeks https://t.co/dMWwptrHHH

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 17, 2017

That was the extent of my deal, after 2 weeks it was on SoundCloud for free. I needed the money and they're all good people over there https://t.co/5kIhv0YaKS

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 17, 2017

Drake's 'Views' Album Becomes the First Album to Achieve 1 Billion Streams on Apple Music

Drizzy Drake keeps winning. His fourth album, Views just became the first album to achieve 1 billion streams on Apple Music. Whoa! One billion streams? Congrats to Drake. He let the world know this on his Instagram page yesterday. That's a picture of him below with his plaque from Apple, and some of the execs from Apple.