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Drake year's top download

Drake was all over Apple Music this year, so perhaps no surprise the rapper tops the iTunes music lists as well.

Drake's album "Views" was the bestseller in iTunes, while his hit "One Dance" was the most popular single. Drake debuted his album on Apple Music's Beats 1 Radio in the spring.

Rihanna, who collaborated with Drake on her smash "Work," held the No. 2 spot on the top album's list with "Anti," while Adele's "25," Frank Ocean's "Blonde," which also debuted on Apple, and Justin Bieber's "Purpose" rounded out the top five.

Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling" was the No. 2 song of the year, followed by Rihanna's "Work," Flo Rida's "My House" and Lukas Graham's "7 Years."

The list is determined by iTunes downloads and streams from Apple Music, which has over 20 million subscribers.

In an interview, Eddy Cue, senior vice-president of Internet Software and Services at Apple, said that 60 per cent of those using Apple Music had not purchased any music from iTunes, and noted the growth in its exclusives with artist, from Frank Ocean to Chance the Rapper.

"At the end of the day, we work for the artist. What we are doing is about making sure that we make it easy with our technologies for them to create music, and with our technologies, for them to be able to distribute music and for them to make a great living doing that," he said.



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