Drake and Future’s collaborative mixtape/album is expected to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, Hits Daily Double reports.
The website says What A Time To Be Alive is estimated to sell as many as 500,000 units its first week. The project was released Sunday (September 21), compared to the usual Friday, which gives it two less days than most projects to sell.
Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late sold 494,746 albums its first week and was released in a similar fashion as What A Time To Be Alive, with little promotion and a direct-to-iTunes release. It is the first Rap album to go platinum this year.
Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 also debuted at #1 upon its release and sold 121,495 copies.
The last collaborative album to make such a splash was Jay Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne, which sold 437,000 albums its first week, according to the website. That project broke the iTunes record for highest-selling album at the time with 290,000 digital purchases its first week.
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The two legends Drizavelli Da 6 God and Future Hendrix really run da rap game. Future now has two number 1 albums in 1 year. Dope trap rapper!
Because garbage ass fans like you make this trash relevant. Lets see, we have a guy who CAN’T rap making the most money, so he’s supposedly the best right now because of that, and we have a rapper who is an addict, a new version crack head. Yeah, I’m really proud of Hip Hop right now.
“Future Hendrix” Hahaha!
And who do you think is future hendrix, lenny kravitz? This guy can’t even rock right. Wayne was going to be a true successor until wayne backstabbed his friends last year.
Cosign OP. Drake not only wins big but brings others to prominence like future, weeknd (and then he sold out and made pop crap), meek, dumbo lamar (who fell off quickly after the drake cosign), and partynext door. Like 40 said, drake is the best ever to do it.
The impressive thing is that it wasn’t even one year since drake put out a classic and this album still goes to no.1 with maybe more than last time. Dre’s washed up ass waited over 15 YEARS and can’t even get a no.1 hit.
Hey, you took Drizzaveli Da 6 God from me. Come up with your own nickname. Nah, matter of fact, go ahead, keep using it. It makes these haters mad. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
That’s him being inspired by your work. And unity is important. Drizzaveli is running rap.
“And who do you think is future hendrix, lenny kravitz? This guy can’t even rock right. Wayne was going to be a true successor until wayne backstabbed his friends last year.” There is no future Hendrix. Wayne sucks at rock music and he never backstabbed anyone.
“Drake not only wins big but brings others to prominence like future, weeknd (and then he sold out and made pop crap), meek, dumbo lamar (who fell off quickly after the drake cosign), and partynext door. Like 40 said, drake is the best ever to do it.” Wrong. Drake never brought anyone to prominence. Future and Meek Mill sucks, The Weeknd never sold out and made pop crap, Kendrick got big on his own without a Drake cosign and continued to rise, and Partynextdoor never blew up or sold shit.
“The impressive thing is that it wasn’t even one year since drake put out a classic and this album still goes to no.1 with maybe more than last time. Dre’s washed up ass waited over 15 YEARS and can’t even get a no.1 hit.” That bullshit Drake put out was not a classic. And Dre obviously isn’t washed up if he’s a billionaire and still goes gold. There’s nothing impressive about going to number one.
Drake ain’t running shit in rap making pop bullshit.
Another impressive thing is that two legendary R&B/hip hop artists can outsell a pop collaborative album with kayne west and jay z’s washed up asses.
You got it wrong. Drake and Future are shitty pop artists making a shitty pop album while Jay Z and Kanye are legendary hip-hop.
Be aware of the meek mill pissed off fans.
Nah, meek is dope though a bit overambitious. It’s chris brown fans that are troublesome.
Meel Mill is trash.
I listened, it’s garbage
That was the watch of throne album that’s wack. Similar artwork can be misleading though.
Watch The Throne isn’t garbage, though.
This garbage sells more than Kendrick Lamar?
Dumbo Ears Lamar, makes uninspiring pop crap who jocks styles from other hardworking niggaz like diddy and future. Drake winning big time. And why care about dumbo’s flopping sales if you aren’t going to ever see a penny of it?
You got Drake and Kendrick backwards. It’s Drake who’s making uninspired pop crap jocking from Diddy and Future (who suck big time). How is Kendrick flopping when he’s already past gold and continues selling?
you seeing any penny or profit though.
Are you seeing any penny or profit off of riding Aubrey’s nuts? I’ll answer that for you; no.
Man drake just kips on shiting on these rap niggas,he done reached a level where if he just farts on the mic he gonna outsell all ur favourite rappers
It’s official. Drizzaveli Da 6 God is the best to ever do it. Nothing else you haters say will dispute that. The proof is now in the pudding. Anything this nigga puts out is gonna sell huge numbers. This is also the most Future has sold in the first week. Just imagine, Drizzaveli can make an album with a rapper nobody has heard of, and can make him an instant celebrity overnight. Like he said, he got the Midas touch. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
Exactly. People are crawling to him for features and appearances. Even dope rappers like nicki, meek, future, and ross are crawling to him for features because he lifts at least the singles he does to mainstream success. Hotline Bling will soon be a no.1 hit. He had the best selling hiphop album of 2013 and will have 2 of the best selling hiphop albums (if not in total sales) of 2015.
Nobody’s crawling to Drake for shit. Nicki, Future, and Ross suck ass. Hotline Bling won’t be a number one single. Drake did not have the best selling hip-hop album of 2013, Eminem did, and none of Drake’s albums are hip-hop, so no.
Drizzy is clearly bigger than cash money. He can leave them at any time and he would still go platinum all his life.
Drake and fetty wap’s collaboration album should happen and will go 3x platinum if it does.
More like 3X wood.
The Future hate is in effect somethin serious right now! LMAO
That’s when you know you winning in the game right now!
Nor really. He just sucks.
You suck. not him
Nope. It’s Future who sucks. He can’t rap or sing and sounds like shit.
I like to see you do better.
I’m not a music artist, though. So that strawman fanboy comment doesn’t work.
Then don’t be following me whining about artists that I find are dope.
I’m not following you, though, nor am I whining. You are doing that.
Man wut a time…to b alive!couple of bangers on here.7/10..future killn sht btw.even tho i kno he aint no MC…tak it 4 wut it is
its a possibility that they went gold in one day ? Damn, wait till the week over, projected sales probably be 700-800k, they making statements
I have found free download link of full album here: goo.gl/xpylXN
I understand Drake is with Apple Music, getting paid and all that, but I feel like they’ve got to be losing money not having the album available on platforms like Google Music etc, at least to stream and then buy later after Apple has caked off on album sales…. that said, they’ve got the best accountants money can buy so I guess I just have to assume they crunched the numbers and an Apple Music exclusive was the way to go. Guess I’ll just wait to stream, or go another route…..
You all allow this mediocre shit to entertain you. There is no message or purpose to this album. Its just pure, uneducating, uninspiring crap put to a hard beat. You small minded clowns love it, but anyone with a brain can see that any true rapper would kill both of their careers
this isis great