Drake's "One Dance" on Friday notched up another record - it is the first song to be played a billion times on Spotify.
The Canadian rapper's song - which in October had already become the most-streamed song ever on Spotify - had been played 1.002 billion times by early Friday.
With a raw funk vibe but minimalist beat Authentic Alonzo Mourning Jersey , "One Dance" has been in heavy rotation at clubs and parties this year.
The track, which appears on Drake's top-charting album Views, features guest vocals by Wizkid, one of Nigeria's top singers, and British house artist Kyla.
Drake's totals on Spotify Wayne Ellington Jersey , the largest site in the fast-growing format of streaming, comes even though he has a business tie-up with Apple.
The tech giant, whose upstart Apple Music is trying to catch up with Spotify, released Views exclusively for its first week although individual tracks appeared elsewhere.
Despite Drake's success, he was surpassed in November for most monthly listeners on Spotify by The Weeknd - a fellow Toronto artist and protege of Drake.
And in a surprise to many music watchers Udonis Haslem Jersey , "One Dance" was not nominated for Record of the Year or Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards although Drake is up in other categories.
WELLINGTON， March 3 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government Friday unveiled plans to crack down on multinationals that profit from exploiting tax loopholes.
Three consultation papers proposed new measures in line with international recommendations to strengthen the taxing of large multinationals， Finance Minister Steven Joyce and Revenue Minister Judith Collins said in a statement.
"Our broad-based low rate tax system continues to perform very well for New Zealand overall. However it's important that it keeps evolving to ensure that all companies operating in New Zealand pay their fair share of tax，" said Joyce.
"The proposals in these documents are in line with the recommendations from the OECD's (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) base erosion and profit-shifting (BEPS) project which has developed best practice measures for the global response to BEPS."
The documents contained proposals for tackling concerns about multinationals booking profits from New Zealand sales offshore， even though the sales were driven by New Zealand-based staff; preventing multinationals using interest payments to shift profits offshore; and implementing New Zealand's entrance into an international convention for aligning its double tax agreements with OECD recommendations.
"We welcome multinationals' participation in our economy， but we also expect them to pay tax based on their actual levels of economic activity in New Zealand，" Collins said.
Earlier Friday， Collins told Radio New Zealand that up to 300 million NZ dollars (211.77 million U.S. dollars) a year in tax was being lost through multinationals seeking to avoid paying taxes - a significant amount given that companies paid about 10 billion NZ dollars (7.06 billion U.S. dollars) in total.
Opposition lawmakers welcomed the move， but said the proposals should have greater consideration of a diverted profits tax (DPT)， a penalty on companies that artificially diverted profits.
Australia and Britain have already implemented DPTs， and Collins told Radio New Zealand that the government had not ruled it out.
However， it also wanted to investigate an alternative approach of targeting "permanent establishment avoidance."
This involved companies and non-residents that structured their affairs to avoid a taxable "permanent establishment" in a country， even when a de facto permanent establishment existed.
The OECD backed plans for a crackdown on multinational tax avoidance after a wave of global protests against big companies including Facebook， Apple and Google， when it was revealed they were paying negligible taxes on massive turnovers.
Submissions on the consultation documents would close next month and ministers said they would consider final proposals arising from the documents later in the year.
SOCHI, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Following is a backgrounder on doping cases at the Winter Olympic Games since the anti-doping testing was introduced in 1968:
Sochi 2014
Two-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle of Germany tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine. Italian bobsleder William Frullani was caught for the stimulant dymethylpentylamine.
Vancouver 2010
Cross-country skier Kornelia Marek of Poland tested for EPO. Thirty other athletes were caught positive in the tests ahead of the Olympics.
Turin 2006
Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva tested for cardephone. Wolfgang Rottmann, Wolfgang Perner, Martin Tauber, Juergen Pinter Tim Hardaway Jersey , Johannes Eder and Roland Diethart were kicked out of the games after blood doping instruments were found in the Austrian cross-country ski and biathlon teams.
Salt Lake City 2002
Cross-country skiers Johann Muehlegg of Spain, Larisa Lazutina and Olga Danilova, both of Russia, all tested for the blood doping substance NESP. British alpine skier Alain Baxter tested for methamphetamine and a Belarussian ice hockey player was caught for nandrolone.
Austrian cross-country skiers Marc Mayer and Achim Walcher were disqualified after the games when blood doping instruments were found found in their rooms.
Nagano 1998
Snowboarder Ross Rebagliati of Canada tested for marijuana but kept his snowboard gold because marijuana was not fully forbidden.
Calgary 1988
Polish ice hockey player Jaroslav Morawiecki tested for testosterone.
Sarajevo 1984
Mongolian cross-country skier Batsuch Purewjal tested for methadone.
Innsbruck 1976
Soviet cross-country skier Galina Kulakova tested for ephedrine, Czechoslovakia ice hockey player Frantisek Pospisil for codeine.
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