Drake’s For All The Dogs has reclaimed the top spot on the Billboard 200 thanks to a boost from Scary Hours 3.
The 6 God packaged the six-song EP as the deluxe edition to For All the Dogs earlier this month, helping the album surge from No. 4 to No. 1 on this week’s chart.
According to Billboard, For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition — as the expanded project appears on streaming services — earned 145,000 album-equivalent units over the last week, beating out Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (138,000) and Dolly Parton’s Rockstar (128,000).
Per Chart Data, Drake’s eighth studio album has now surpassed 1 million units in the U.S., making it eligible for platinum certification (although the RIAA has yet to issue a plaque).
It previously debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last month with 402,000 equivalent album units in its first week, putting Drizzy just one behind JAY-Z‘s record of the rapper with the most No. 1 albums (14).
Shortly after the release of Scary Hours 3 on November 17, Drake released the instrumental version — but with a twist. In addition to making them available on streaming platforms, the 6 God made fans navigate various “rooms” in his Toronto mansion on his website drakerelated.com to download each track.
Prior to its release, he issued a challenge to his rap peers to bring their best bars over the beats, which were produced by The Alchemist, Conductor Williams, Ovrkast and more.
“Dropping the instrumentals this week I wanna hear who’s barring up,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories next to a graphic of the twin fairies that appear on his Scary Hours 3 cover.
Fabolous, who never shies away from a freestyle, quickly accepted Drake’s challenge by rapping over the Vinylz and Boi-1da-produced “Evil Ways.”
“New truck but I been driven/ Pull up and turn your Friendsgiving to a Benzgiving/ Told my bitch what is givings, what has been given/ I gotta move in where we been livin’/ That Brooklyn boy ain’t gon’ play with them boys, that’s word to Ben Simmons,” the Brooklyn MC rhymed.
As for Drake, the accolades continue to pile up. The 37-year-old was nominated for a total of 14 awards at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards earlier this month and came home with five wins, sweeping the rap categories.
The 6 God won Top Rap Artist, Top Male Rap Artist, Top Rap Touring Artist, Top Rap Album for his joint album with 21 Savage Her Loss, and Top Rap Song, again for a 21 Savage collaboration with “Rich Flex.”
Garbage music for dateless females and effeminate males.. there’s a lot of them out there
I like his dog and scary albums. It’s great success. He’s no.#1
Hi Ovo. The album is still ass cheeks. Only lonely cat women like yourself enjoyed it
hey man just giving dude his accolades. try not to define me. Thanks but no thanks.
@AE Shut your dumb ass up
I liked the records it’s really simple. No hate here.
Do you know me? And out of curiosity what exactly is a cat woman? I’ve never heard of this before…I meant no disrespect to this chat I just don’t know
I say it’s no. #1. That’s all I wanted to say. I’m just ordinary day by day person who likes hip hop. For me hip hop culture is not violence or hatred or bad thing but I was on the streets so embraced different by it. Take care
I guess selling a mil or streaming or whatever and going platinum ain’t what it use to be. Carry on!!!
The music industry needs a major overhaul! Music fans stop being so lazy and seek out excellence instead of hot music. Music Artists put out too many records in a year.. The corporations do not develop artists anymore. Commercial radio play the same music everyday. I can’t listen to today’s music especially trap music it just white noise.