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Drake has obviously been the story of the streaming world this week, as his triple-release of new albums — Iceman, Maid of Honour and Habibti — has been setting all sorts of first-day and first-week marks on DSPs, and generally taking over discussion, as fans debate the merits of the albums and the strategy behind them. But while fans ingest the three albums and the combined 43 tracks between them, one song has begun to separate from the pack as the streaming favorite: “Janice STFU.”

In the days since the albums’ release, the Sopranos-referencing (and even Sopranos-sampling) Iceman cut has taken over as Drake’s top song — and indeed, the top song period — on the U.S. daily streaming charts for both Spotify and Apple Music. While its release Friday (May 16) saw Iceman opener “Make Them Cry” as the sets’ most-streamed cut with 14.1 million first-day official on-demand U.S. streams, according to early data provided by Luminate, by Saturday “STFU Janice” had taken over as the most-streamed cut with just over 6.2 million, narrowly beating out the Future- and Molly Santana-featuring “Ran 2 Atlanta” at just under 6.2 million. (“Make Them Cry” had dropped to 5.1 million.)

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