Beyonce held the title of most albums sold in a week in 2016 for a period of seven days before Drake overtook the Queen’s spot with the debut of VIEWS. The project tops Billboard’s Top 200 albums with more than one million units sold. Prince’s albums continue to sell in the wake of the singer’s death and the cast of Empire releases another soundtrack.
Drake’s “VIEWS” From The Top Of The Charts
Drake did it. He sold one million albums in a week. The official sales numbers say he sold 1,039,058 units of his fourth studio album, VIEWS, as it lands at the #1 spot. This surpasses Beyonce, who sold 652,665 units of LEMONADE to rake in the highest debut week of 2016. VIEWS was streamed 245,087,706 times as it was released as an Apple Music exclusive. In comparison, TIDAL reports that Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo was streamed 250 million times in its first 10 days. Drake’s other projects also saw leaps in sales. His collaborative project with Future, What a Time to Be Alive, saw a 33 percent jump and lands at #20. Take Care sits at #47 with a 34% increase.
Beyonce’s “LEMONADE” Keeps Fans Coming Back
Beyonce’s LEMONADE lands at #2 this week, but still pushed six figures, selling 321,312 units. This makes the total sales for the album 973,977 units. LEMONADE is still a TIDAL exclusive for streaming, where it was listened to or watched nearly 1 million times its second week from release. It is only available for purchase at iTunes so far, where fans gobbled it up 196,252 times.
Cast Of “Empire” Continues Reign
The cast of Empire released the Season 2 Volume 2 soundtrack last week. The project charts at #26 with 17,865 album equivalent units. It was streamed nearly 2 million times in one week. The Season 2 Volume 1 debuted at #16 last year with about 30,000 units of sales.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 05/05/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#1 Drake – VIEWS – 1,039,058 (851,675) [245,087,706]
#2 Beyonce- LEMONADE – 321,312 (196,252) [97,454,388]
#3 Prince – Purple Rain – 75,443 (60,332) [846,149]
#4 Prince – Very Best of Prince – 69,886 (55,441) [1,039,386]
#5 Rihanna – ANTI – 50,688 (15,093) [36,665,774]
#11 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 26,896 (187) [40,063,626]
#14 Prince – 1999 – 24,923 (23,680) [85,838]
#15 Kevin Gates – ISLAH – 23,135 (7,559) [16,537,701]
#16 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 22,286 (5,758) [21,241,872]
#20 Drake and Future – What a Time To Be Alive – 20,850 (4,836) [17,808,737]
damn cant even hate on drake man..what he just did in his first week with VIEWS is just amazing i mean in 2016?? As a rapper?? Thats just crazy with all this internet/downloading/streaming/itunes shit thats taking over…hard to believe over a million people in the U.S actually brought a physical cd to hear this guy..#salute #whoelsedoinit?
No, 850k bought the album.
Correct!
Correct!
All your favorite rappers couldn’t add up do 850 first week punk boy ! Can’t hate when a singa rapper running the game cuz he makes classic music !
All your favorite rappers couldn’t add up do 850 first week punk boy ! Can’t hate when a singa rapper running the game cuz he makes classic music !
Newsflash: other rappers have sold more than Aubrey in the first week (Eminem being a good example). Plus, he is not making classic music, just boring shit.
weak ass meek mill hating already ol cryin ass nugga..go fu^k nikki or suntin lil goofie boy
its a drake oVo take over for all u lame mmg fans out dere waiting on selfmade vol.4 and wale albums ft. Sienfield in sh!t lol
drake just sold more than rick ross, wale and meek..cant forget stalley ( how eronic ) latest albums in his first week put together and thats lil wayne lil nugga..
King Drake !!!! All he does is go plat plat !! Congrats 6god still rocking Views all day you made another classic! You run the game period !
Don’t get ahead of yourself. Anyone who says an album is a classic after one week seriously needs to learn something. Classics have to withstand the test of time. Trust me when I say views ain’t a classic. BTW OVO sucks except for drake anyway
All he does is go platinum? I think you need to go back and check some numbers before this album
All he does is go platinum? I think you need to go back and check some numbers before this album
Beyonce sucks and Drake is officially bigger than her and Jay-z. Im so glad we are witnessing the downfall for this wanna be white biaatch.
j.ewish propaganda at it finest.
The Lord will ALWAYS make your enemies your footstool! Drake gets hatred FOR NO REASON by these sorry ass punk ass bitches called humans and all he has done is make his music for the people who want to hear it! He don’t go around talking trash about people on social media or the radio, he don’t promote beefs, he don’t even try to ACT HARD like the rest of these so called men but yet he gets bashed! He sent Charlamagne 6 bottles of liquor knowing damn well that man does nothing but slander him. He sampled two of DMX’s songs after this dude dissed him on the radio. Thats why Drake is one of the most successful rappers in this game because he is a good guy. There’s no room for “NICE” in hip hop! You either ACT HARD or GO HOME! That is the biggest misconception in hip hop. Drake will always win!!!
You made an entire novel chapter full of lies and Drake dickriding. Go home.
Called facts Mr.Nope you the same guy saying weak mill won the battle vs he and Drake ! Another hater trying to have their opinion matter when the homie but up plenty facts !!
I didn’t say any of those things, though. The OP didn’t have any facts in his comment, he’s just being another butthurt Drake stan like you are right now.
I see butthurt chris brown fans already.
Stop comparing the 2 lol cbreezy can actually sing.
The cd is good but i wouldn’t say its a classic. Classic means that its timeless like 5 years from now people still would be bumping it
LOL. Just cos you moved a milli doesn’t mean it’s a decent album, man don’t even rap no more. It ain’t hip hop. It’s dead. Numbers mean nothing too real artists and fans
Numbers matter but you are right. It’s not hip hop.
Numbers matter but you are right. It’s not hip hop.
*Drake selling big was expected. Just wish the album itself was as great as the sales. Had Views From the 666 came out instead..* 1. Keep Satan’s Family Close 2. 999 (Flip It) 3. Lucifer, U With Me? 4. Feel No Peaceful Ways 5. Evil Hype 6. Hells Highway Flows 7. Redemption (Devils Revenge) 8. With You (Devils Daughter) 9. Faithful to Satan 10. Still Here In the Pits of Hell 11. Controlla (Resident Evil) 12. One Dance With the Devil 13. Horrorcore Grammys 14. Childs Play (Little Demons) 15. Satan Style 16. Too Good At Being Bad 17. Summers Over/Halloweens Coming Interlude 18. Fire & Desire (I Love It) 19. Views From the 666 20. Hotline Bling (Demonic Remix) (Bonus)
Just shows there is a more than a million clueless mf’s out there
Same thing I said also I think these companies he’s associated with or buying copies or manipulating the numbers. Either way popularity is never indication of quality.
U write bs n reply 2 urself? Cry urself to death hater.
Yo! Team Drizzy here!! We jst Charging Up! We gon hit yall bac to bac soonest!
All these other rappers you hipster losers like are irrelevent. You better pray they get a drake feature to revive or make their careers. With out drake hiphop would be dead. Isn’t it sad how the next highest hiphop selling album of 2016 is not even gold. Your favourite rappers need drake for numbers.
Don’t you ever get tired of lying with Drake’s dick in your mouth?
No, you’re wrong. Aubrey isn’t the king of anything, a lot of artists can run circles around him. And it’s funny that you consider me a Young Thug/French Montana fan, yet I think they’re garbage. I just don’t like mediocre music, which Drake makes a lot of. He’s not the best out there, he’s a commercialized product like Justin Bieber.
If anyone releases material as often as Drizzy does theres bound to be a few ‘bad songs’ but the good outweight the bad dont you think?
If anyone releases material as often as Drizzy does theres bound to be a few ‘bad songs’ but the good outweight the bad dont you think?
If anyone releases material as often as Drizzy does theres bound to be a few ‘bad songs’ but the good outweight the bad dont you think?
Sad thing bout you Mr. A you know deep down Drake is the King of this game and he runs circles around everyone ! Lemme guess big young thug or French Montana fan I bet. Truth hurts nobody is on or will be on his level! Elevate your listening me dick in your mouth what is this HS w the corny statements! Plat plat all day …
When you have a whole country buying your shit that gives you a competitive advantage. You can tell drake runs rap is from Canada he sounds lame
Platinum out the gate but Piss when it comes to reviews.
Reviews have been 3/5 to 4/5. Never 1/5 or 2/5. By all standards, the reviews have been decent – just not stellar. Remember plenty of legendary albums have received terrible reviews – Rolling Stone’s Exile to Main St. Black Sabbath’s Paranoid,
Problem is that Views isn’t a legendary album, it’s a mediocre one, and legendary albums don’t receive bad reviews.
Problem is that Views isn’t a legendary album, it’s a mediocre one, and legendary albums don’t receive bad reviews.
Problem is that Views isn’t a legendary album, it’s a mediocre one, and legendary albums don’t receive bad reviews.
Do some history fact-checking and you will realize plenty of lengendary albums have recieved bad reviews initially. The reviews later get revised. It happens all the time especially with innovative albums.
No, not really. It rarely happens. And it’s funny that you say all this to defend Views, which isn’t legendary or innovative, but just more of the same boring repetitive shit.
My B Hole is tingling looking at that Drizzy pic, he’s soo hot right now
I wanna shoot Drake and steal all of his money…
The sales of any single on the album count toward these numbers, so he got a big boost because of hotline bling, last summer. Smart move to put it at the end cuz ain’tnobody fuckin with that track anymore that isn’t a little sister.
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Release Date: 29.04.2016
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Size: 114 MB
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it will be interesting to see what type of numbers he puts up on the second week in.
Drake and his fans should get burned alive and die. If you like Drake, go kill yourself.
Your a loser bro what are you 12?? saying Fuck a Canada and Fuck drake?. Maybe you should follow your own advise and Kill yourself you don’t sound like someone anybody would miss. Anybody body who talks like you has no class or self respect, You parents must be proud of the person you’ve become, And Canada and Drake are doing fine. Canada is also voted best place to live in North America and we don’t vote for questionable racist like Donald Trump as our leaders.
Lol those are fake sales. That album was garbage. Somebody needs to kill this gay beaver maple leaf ass bitch from Canada.
Since when does a wack ass singer runs rap? God should do us all a favor take his annoying voice away!!! Drake cocksucker go hang yourself ????????????
Problem is he raps better than ur favourite rapper, never boring.