Apple Music has claimed more than half – in some cases, more than two thirds – of US streams for a run of blockbuster hip-hop releases in the United States over the past two months. That’s according to internal stats that Apple Music provides to its label partners, obtained by MBW, which reveal the platform’s first-week play-counts for recent chart-topping albums in the US…
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