--- title: Apple: Dr. Dre’s Compton Streamed 25 Million Times in Week One description: Dr. Dre's album was streamed 25 million times in its first week on Apple Music, but it may not be enough to compete with similar services. canonical: https://time.com/4000306/dr-dre-album-apple-music/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-17T15:11:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:44:30.616Z article:section: Business og:title: Dr. Dre’s Compton Streamed 25 Million Times in Week One og:description: Dr. Dre's album was streamed 25 million times in its first week on Apple Music. og:url: https://time.com/4000306/dr-dre-album-apple-music/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9af714032289a384/69885f945f570fd562b1cf44/gettyimages-1429670721.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2012 Coachella Music Festival - Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dr. Dre’s Compton Streamed 25 Million Times in Week One twitter:description: Dr. Dre's album was streamed 25 million times in its first week on Apple Music. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9af714032289a384/69885f945f570fd562b1cf44/gettyimages-1429670721.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is How Many Times Dr. Dre’s New Album Was Streamed in its First Week On Apple Music by [Michal Addady / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Michal Addady / Fortune Aug 17, 2015 3:11 PM CUT  Rapper Dr. Dre. Rapper Dr. Dre.Christopher Polk—2012 Getty Images by [Michal Addady / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Michal Addady / Fortune Aug 17, 2015 3:11 PM CUT Dr. Dre’s new album, “Compton: A Soundtrack,” was streamed 25 million times during its first week out on Apple Music and was downloaded nearly half a million times on iTunes, the _New York Times_ [reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/business/media/new-dr-dre-album-serves-as-a-test-for-apple-music.html "undefined"). The album was heavily promoted through Apple Music and iTunes and is exclusively available through those two media. These numbers weren’t enough to get the album to the No. 1 spot in the U.S., where it received 11 million streams. This seems low compared to other hits this year, like Drake’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” which was streamed 48 million times in just one week. While [11 million](http://fortune.com/2015/08/10/apple-music-subscribers/ "undefined") isn’t bad, “it’s not a spectacular number if you take in the number of Apple users that exist worldwide,” Russ Crupnick, analyst at MusicWatch, told the _Times_. Other successful albums from this year greatly benefitted from the popularity of Spotify, which has about 75 million users. Apple Music, since being released on June 30, has had 11 million people sign up for its 90-day free trial. [Reactions](http://fortune.com/2015/08/05/review-apple-music/ "undefined") to Apple Music have been mixed, and its impact on the music charts insignificant. There are already “really established services out there, like Pandora, Spotify, and Deezer, that people really like. It’s hard to penetrate the market as the second, third, fourth brand in, even if that brand is Apple,” Crupnick said. We can expect to spot more marketing for Apple’s new service this month as they try to put the pressure on other music streaming services in their search for new subscribers. ### See Steve Jobs’ Legacy in 16 Photos  1976 Apple I was Apple's first computer, which became obsolete within a year. Today, they are auctioned off as collector's items. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  1977 Apple II was the follow up to the Apple I computer. Apple II proved highly successful and spawned several variations. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  1983 Lisa was Apple's office computer that was the first personal computer to use a graphical user interface. It was a commercial flop, largely because it retailed for a whopping $10,000. Ted Thai—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  1991 NeXT Station was a workstation computer manufactured by NeXT, a computer company Steve Jobs founded in 1985 after he was forced out of Apple. After Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, Jobs rejoined Apple. 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