Drake is certainly playing in a league of his own when it comes to album sales in Hip Hop. According to HitsDailyDouble, the 6 God’s latest effort Certified Lover Boy is projected to earn north of 600,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week of sales.
CLB is expected to breeze to Drake’s sixth No. 1 album when it debuts atop the Billboard 200 next week.
Those 600,000 projected first-week sales will not only be the biggest album debut of 2021 — eclipsing Kanye West’s Donda — but it will be the highest first-week sales in Hip Hop since Drake’s last album, Scorpion, which moved 732,000 opening week units back in 2018.
Certified Lover Boy is on track to notch about 680-700 million streams, which trails only Drake’s Scorpion in the streaming department. The 2018 project boasted a record 746 million streams in its first week.
Drake Breaks Apple Music + Spotify Streaming Records With ‘Certified Lover Boy’
With Kanye West taking home his 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 309,000 total album-equivalent units in 4.5 days, the talk of the town in Hip Hop has been comparing CLB to Donda.
However, one person who isn’t picking sides is Diddy.
“I listened to both these albums, and first of all, I just wanna say that you guys are true kings of creativity,” the Bad Boy mogul said. “Both of you guys are so special and necessary. Thank y’all for the inspiration. I wanna make sure that what hip-hop knows is the reach and the power that we have. I really want to take my hat off to both of these brothers for sharing their truth.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ9s0GVR0yc
“Sales” should be in between quotation marks. This guy constantly has the biggest lame albums of all time. More sales than the Beatles etc, yet only has twice as much money as T.I.? He isn’t on Forbes 10 richest musicians in the world list, yet he has outsold EVERYONE. That adds up. LOL
He had a bad deal for a long time
By “bad deal” you mean click farms and 20 people who write and produce the album to split checks with? He still has that. LOL
Yall are right, but forgetting about the Birdman lol, he told drake the day wayne sign him, “you’re not going to college/pros or any where if the birdman don’t win just remember that’ Drake should be close to a billionaire by now. But Birdman was making more off of drake than drake was making himself, had to split money with Wayne, Young money, Cash money and Universal.
Sure he did. He could of also made a dope clothing line. Invested in gold cognac/champagne. Come out with some headphones. Created a marijuana brand. He just doesn’t have anyone writing THAT for him. LOL
Lol he didn’t create anything. Some businessman came up with the liquor and weed idea and all the human tampon had to do was put his/her/their name on it and then promote it.
Drake has made numerous investments, and has numerous luxurious properties. With 7 albums just resting in the top 200 albums for years, and CLB most definitely debuting at number one next week, he will never want for anything. His legacy will get richer and richer despite haters who have never done anything in their loser lives but hate.
I mean, its like Push was right all along about young money cash money “youre signed to one brother thats signed to one brother thats signed to one brother, now thats bad luck”
So we just gonna act like this potentially isnt THE LOWEST DRAKE ALBUM DEBUT SINCE 2010 ? Aight then, time will shine light on its lack on quality sooner or later
Yeah. Not one garbage ass catchy but on the radio? Suspect as fuck. There is a reason it was delayed so much. That wack ass cover is just a turd cherry on a shit Sunday.
He’s the hero of white suburban kids. All his albums sound the same now. Boring
When someone suddenly stops liking their favorite rapper because they put out pop hits, it’s all of a sudden “white suburban music” lmao
Stfu bigot that’s the problem with America
Comments like that perpetuate more racism
Oh, I forgot, only white people can be racist
I’m not a white suburban kid. I’m an adult woman who loves Drake music. There is so much to like about it I can’t even get into it now. But I also have great taste in music. He is underrated as an artist because he is prolific and many people are taking him for granting and think that artist who rarely put out music and are reclusive are better and deeper. It will take years for people to really appreciate what we have in Drizzy Drake.
Drake net worth way more than others his age from music past or present.
Most the big moguls in hip hop made outside of music. Liquor, tv/movie, fashion, business ownership, being venture capitalist.
His time to scale up is coming. Typically starts closer to 40 years old and later.
Nope. Wrong. Adjusted for inflation his net worth is far below at least 50 artists, past or present. LOL. Yet he is the biggest seller of all time? Hahahahaha. Madonna. MJ. Kanye. Bono. Any of the Beatles individually. Rhiana (1 year younger than him, worth over 5X as much). Lady Gaga is 2 years older than him and worth 150 million more. Beyoncé is worth over twice as much as him yet only 6 years older. The list goes on and on and on… Uet he outsold ALL of these people. Hahahahahaha. Maybe do some research before making shit up to suck ride your culture vulture fuck boy. He makes (other people write it) teenie bop shitty music for pop dorks like yourself. And sucks at it. LOL.
You need to do your research sir lol you’re the one who’s off.
You don’t get much pussy if any, now do you? Lol I can sense the misery from you based on how much hatred you have for someone who’s worth more than you, your dad and your mama all put together ??
May not have always been like this but currently… Drake > Ye
Not actually sales. Streaming numbers manipulated into something thats equivalent to record sales even though neither the artist nor the label makes much at all. This is done to hide the fact that most people don’t like this new generation of musicians.
I suppose but I for sure can tell you I had both albums on repeat and still in rotation in my playlist that I nearly play everyday. I pay for Apple subscription so I do use the heck out it. To be honest you should actullsy pay attention to the subscription amount outlets like Apple Music tidal etc and you can make a good assessment of streams and dsp can last for a month so that’s another thing to think about.
Thanks for your reply. The numbers are heavily in Apples favor. Now for an artist of Drakes fame, the terms are better but still. The truth is that Apple and Spotify are huge factors in the destruction of the economics of the music industry. Given that they take most of the money, artists don’t spend as much time honing their craft and delivering high quality albums, instead they just make the catchiest, cheesiest stuff to make the most money as quickly as they can.
Kanye west is a billionaire. Drake has yet to reach 200m in Networth. Streaming numbers or not, Ye doesn’t even have to drop music at this point. He is just very passionate about it.
-Bitter Kanye groupie
Drake networth ain’t $180, he owns a $100m house in Toronto, a $120m plane and your saying his networth is $180m
Yes, net worth is how much money a person has after subtracting all liabilities. So that doesn’t include his properties.
1St of all drake is young when compared to other rappers in the game with a high networth. He in his early 30s and his net worth estimated to be at $150M to $180M. the billionaires in music dre, Jay Z are in their 50s. Drake well on his way. Second Kimye only increased his fame when he got married to Ray J side piece. Kim worth more than Klownye. So who cares how much Drake worth? You bums typing this crap are broke and are either unemployed or work for minimum wage. See Tyson Beckford interview on Vlad. As he said “Kanye just a square from Chicago”
Kanye net worth: 1.8 billion
Jay z net worth: 1.4 billion
Kim net worth: 1.2 billion
Drake net worth: 180 million
Ray J net worth: 14 million
Tyson Beckford net worth: 8 million
Vlad net worth 5 million
Your net worth 0 dollars
Facts boiii
This was really meant for you. Drake has made numerous investments, and has numerous luxurious properties. With 7 albums just resting in the top 200 albums for years, and CLB most definitely debuting at number one next week, he will never want for anything. His legacy will get richer and richer despite haters who have never done anything in their loser lives but hate.