Dr. Dre Album Serves as a Test for Apple Music

Dr. Dre at the debut of the film "Straight Outta Compton." His collection, "Compton: A Soundtrack," had 25 million streams far and wide in its first week, Apple officials said on Sunday.

At the point when Apple presented its new spilling administration, Apple Music, toward the end of June, one of the unavoidable issues hanging over it was whether it could contend with outlets like Spotify to convey blockbuster results for huge new collections.

In Apple Music's first significant test, the answer is a qualified yes. Dr. Dre's collection "Compton: A Soundtrack" — a free attach into the film "Straight Outta Compton" — had 25 million streams far and wide in its first week, furthermore sold about a large portion of a million downloads through Apple's iTunes store, Apple officials said on Sunday.


"We're starting to indicate what we can do as far as imparting music to an overall group of onlookers and helping specialists in the meantime," said Jimmy Iovine, the previous record official who helped form the new administration after Apple paid $3 billion last year for Beats, the gadgets organization and music brand he began with Dr. Dre.

Still, the collection's execution was not exactly enough to send it to No. 1 in the United States.

Blue grass music vocalist Luke Bryan. His collection, "Murder the Lights," is relied upon to come in first on
Billboard's collection outline.

CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

At the point when Billboard's most recent collection outline is discharged on Monday, "Compton" is relied upon to open in second place, beaten by "Kill the Lights," from the nation star Luke Bryan. As per industry gauges, "Compton" — which is being offered just through Apple for its initial two weeks — had around 11 million streams in the United state

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