Drake's New Album 2018 'Scorpion' Sets New Streaming Record
One year after Drake unleashed his superb playlist 'More Life', this Canadian rapper now gifted the world his fifth solo studio album Scorpion on June 29, with a whopping total of 25 songs. It's a double album featuring guest appearances from Jay-Z and Ty Dolla Sign as well as a previously unreleased vocal by Michael Jackson.
In its first day of release, Scorpion broke Spotify and Apple Music's single-day global record for album streams with over 130 million streams and 170 million streams respectively, breaking Drake's own record set with More Life last year. And in its first week, Scorpion has pulled in over 1 billion streams globally, making it the first album that has hit this milestone in just one week, Billboard reports.
So far with Scorpion, Drake has earned his eighth consecutive no.1 album on Billboard 200 chart. If you subscribed Apple Music or Spotify, you can now easily access this hot album and all included titles with your membership on desktop or mobiles.
Scorpion by Drake: The Most Anticipated Album of the Year
Scorpion was supported by the singles "God's Plan", "Nice for What", "I'm Upset", "Don't Matter to Me and "In My Feelings". The former two singles reached no.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 prior to the album's release. You can listen to the full tracklist of Scorpion on Spotify or Apple Music.
Drake Scorpion Download: How to Download Scorpion Album as MP3
With Apple Music or Spotify paid subscription, you can freely stream Drake's Scorpion album online or download the songs offline for mobile devices like iPhone, Android, etc. However, if you are using free accounts of Spotify, you will be disappointed as free users can only listen to the Scorpion album online. Worse still, even paying users of Apple Music or Spotify are limited to play the downloaded songs on selected devices only since these tracks are encoded in special formats which are not supported by common MP3 players.
To solve your annoyance, we are introducing two effective solutions here, with which you can easily download the Drake's Scorpion from Spotify and Apple Music even if you are using Spotify free plan. These tools will also extract the songs as MP3 format so that you can listen to them offline on any device or player.
Tools You'll Need to Free Download Drake Scorpion Album
In order to get the Drake's Scorpion album as MP3, you'll need a third-party tool, such as ViWizard Spotify Music Converter (if you are using Spotify streaming music) or ViWizard Apple Music Converter (if you are using Apple Music). These two software will help you completely bypass the DRM lock from Spotify OGG songs and Apple Music M4P tracks respectively while converting the protected file format to MP3 and other popular formats.
- Download all Spotify songs, playlists and albums
- Convert Spotify OGG Vorbis to MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, FLAC, WAV
- Keep lossless music quality and ID3 tags
- Download Spotify tracks at up to 5X faster speed
- Losslessly remove DRM from Apple Music
- Convert DRM M4P songs to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, etc.
- Keep and fix original ID3 tags
- Customize output audio quality
Guide: How to Free Download Drake Scorpion from Spotify to MP3
Now the following steps will show you how to download Drake Scorpion album from Spotify as MP3 with ViWizard Spotify Music Converter. If you are using Apple Music and want to get Drake's songs from Apple Music to MP3, you can follow this tutorial: How to Convert Apple Music Songs to MP3.
Step 1Drag Scorpion album from Spotify to ViWizard
First of all, install and launch ViWizard Spotify Music Converter on your Mac or PC. Then it will load Spotify desktop client automatically. Once done, go to Spotify app and locate the Drake's Scorpion album. Then drag the whole playlist from Spotify to ViWizard interface. You can also copy and paste the album URL to the search box of ViWizard and click "+" button to load the tracks.
Step 2Define output settings
Go to the top right corner of ViWizard, click the menu bar and select "Preferences" to access the output settings window where you can change the basic parameters including output format, parameters, speed, etc. You can choose the output format as MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, M4A or M4B and adjust output music bit rate at up to 320 kbps.
Step 3Download Scorpion album as MP3
Now tap the "Convert" button to let the program start downloading the Scorpion album from Spotify to MP3 or other formats. After conversion, you can click "converted" icon to load the well-downloaded Drake's latest songs. Till now, you can copy and play Drake's Scorpion on any MP3 player or device offline at anytime anywhere.
Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.