Drake has surpassed the initial projections that said his VIEWS album would sell 1 million album equivalent units its first week after release.
According to Pitchfork, Republic Records announced yesterday (May 5) that the project sold 1.2 million units worldwide in six days, with more than 1 million of those from the United States. Drizzy’s fourth studio album has been streamed more than 250 million times globally, with the United States accounting for 200 million of those.
Drake previously reported that VIEWS sold 630,000 units its first night.
The official Nielson Soundscan report is set to be released Monday (May 9), where Drake is projected to take the top spot, overtaking Beyonce’s LEMONADE album, which has had the highest-selling album in one week so far this year.
VIEWS is due for physical release today (May 6) and will reportedly end its Apple Music exclusive for streaming May 13, when it will be available on all other major streaming services.
(This article was first published May 2, 2016 and is as follows.)
After Beyonce set the bar this year for most albums sold in a week with 652,665 album equivalent units of LEMONADE, Drake looks to quickly eclipse that mark with his VIEWS album.
The project, which is expected to debut at the #1 spot on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart, sold a reported 630,000 copies in one night after its release to iTunes and Apple Music Friday (April 29).
Hits Daily Double reports that VIEWS will sell 1 million album equivalent units its first week. Drizzy is projected to sell nine hundred thousand copies of his fourth studio album. In regards to streams, Nielson counts streams for singles that were released prior to the album. Therefore, the numbers will include the streams for “Hotline Bling,” which, at the time of publication, has more than 700 million YouTube views.
By comparison, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV debuted with 964,000 album sales upon its August 2011 release.
Also that year, Drake released Take Care, which topped the chart with 631,000 units in November.
Most recently, Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late mixtape debuted at the top of the charts with 535,000 album equivalent units. It set a Spotify record after being streamed 17 million times in three days.
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Wel I am only moved by physical sales like Adele
why?
why?
Yeeeeeeah, platinum first week bitches! Let the hate begin in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife #VIEWS #PlatFirstWeek
What are u sayin can’t talk with a Dick in ur mouth huh?!
The people have spoken. Drake is the greatest artist of this generation. He’s smashed records by the Beatles, Adele, Frank Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Jay-Z, Michael Jackson, Madonna etc. Drake is in the convo for top 10 greatest artist of all-time, nigga about to pass Beethoven.
But has he ever gone double diamond? Shut up
Keep dreaming, Drake stan. Selling records=/=being the best.
Selling records does = being the best
What sales records has Jay-Z ever had?
Not even close.
Most number ones on the Billboard hip-hop/r and b chart. I never said sales, I said records.
Same thing. It doesn’t make you the best, it just means you’re popular.
Same thing. It doesn’t make you the best, it just makes you popular.
13 number 1 platinum selling albums in a row as a PURE RAP ARTIST, no pop fans like drake to reach that incredible feat.
Plat plat all day !! All these haterz saying nobody buys music any more Drake the king the Godsend just defeated all that chat w a classic album ! He unleashed an amazing body of work ! Bet weak mill and CO Ricky fat boi sitting at home tearing up how much Drake sold all while they listening to views ! Nobody can do what Drake has done in this game period !
Classic? Not even close. That boring ass shit was mediocre at best.
Get ur face outta wheelchair jimmys holes. Fuk boy
I fucking loved the album personally, but it’sno where near a classic. Actually Drake’sthe only one inmy top 20 who hasn’t had classic lol
*Great sales but critics aren’t praising the album as much as his previous work. If only 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)
I really did not hear any hype for this album. Just like when Wayne dropped Carter IV. It did not feel like there was that much hype. So I’m thinking the record company definitely bought some albums. You really mean to tell me an album where the first single is already falling on the charts is gonna sell a million in a week? I don’t buy it. No pun intended lmao
You’re lying to yourself if “you did not hear any hype for this album” lmao. This album has been hyped since he dropped summer sixteen, and if you missed that memo it was hyped when he announced when it would released. We all knew Drake was going to hit a milli in a week at some point. Now he needs to get back in the studio and drop an even better album than this. I thought Views was good, but it is definitely not the best album of his career, he can do better!
He deserved it (even tho this is not a classic).
Damn, you are a garbage human being.
Drake would easily sell more than a milln records in Nigeria alone.
Haters dont believe it haha
Hate on what, the shit is garbage, you act like niggas is obligated to like it.
MVP! MVP! 09 al d way to 16!
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good numbers, but a very average album. .. I never wuda tot TLOP wud be better than any rap album dropped by a mainstream artist
No, it’s not a classic. At all. Don’t delude yourself.
Dont you compare this album with TFLop nigga! Albums a classic period.
Drake and Kaynes albums are not classics, disc1 of the documentary 2 are better then bothe these shits
In that picture, Drake is praying that no more reference tracks leak out.
even if he does have reference tracks, he is still outselling everyone….take that L and suck on it. And please, don’t give me the im on his jock strap bullshit. stating facts.
Well, if you’re saying “he is outselling everyone, take this L and suck on it” then you kind of are on his jock strap.
this numbers are all fake, this celebritys are paying from theyr pocket to get the amount of streams
Get ya money, but the album trash, hype is bigger then the music
Huuuge numbers, although people shouldn’t ignore that early predictions went up to 2 million copies in one week. He sold 600’000 albums on itunes on the very first day. Sure, its a hype thing, but sales dropped to 140’000 on day two. HitsDailyDouble’s projections showed 1’000’000 album sales in a week (1.2m with streams), now its down to 900’000. The album already sold 740’000 after 2 days, keep that in mind, so thats a rough 160k for the next 5 days. If this trend continues, he will sell around 150’000 next week. Which might result as one of the biggest sales drops in music history. Just saying.
Go listen to TPAB and cry yourself to sleep drake haters. Drake runs this rap game. What will it take for you deluisional hipster losers to accept that fact?
Yet nothing you say is even close to fact.
jay aint never sell dat much 1st week and dat was b4 da internet takeover..its his time people…reminds me of kanye right before Graduation…
The Game Documentary 2 & 2.5 album of the year. Dont play ya self
Wow so much hate ok people even if you cut in half the 6god still sold 600k first week all your favorite rappers combined can’t even sell that much first week. He is the Kibg nobody is close and he didn’t change the rules to add album streams into the sales. Either way he woulda go plat plat !! This album is a classic elevate your listening people he on it with this album ! Views
Why does it matter what anybody sold? That’s got nothing to do with how good the music is or isn’t.
Newsflash: Views isn’t a good album at all. You’re delusing yourself if you think it’s a classic.
i am happy for drizzy even if i dont respekt him anymore as a “rapper” .
Only thing i say is he should not be counted in hip hop charts as the album album is pop
This is nothing. People musta forgot that Rihanna’s album went platinum in two days.
no disrespeck to drake, but he’ll prolly end up like the artists where everyone says “oh you still listen to him?” or “I listened to him when i was younger” or even “he’s old now” cuz for some reason thats a big deal in the hiphop community
The people talking shit haven’t heard the album and talking out they ass. You niggas can’t afford albums anymore and still don’t know how to download correctly.
16 bucks for a cd case to break up my weed on…..
I swear to God yall are fucking groupies….
Some of you are lame as fuck with the way you defend drake. some of you even bring up his money. Hell by the way some of yoi talk i would think yyou guys are releated to him or something. You drake fans are so wrapped up in his life that you care about his well being more than your own
People are actually spending their hard earned feria on this hot garbage!!??
Told ya drake will do over a million. Feminem is nowhere near that right now.
Hello OVO, unfortunately I have to tell you that, and this might be a shock but it is indeed true, Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP still easily outsells Drake’s whole discography. By a few million units that is. You may take your fingers out of your asshole now.
I said nowhere near that right now. Drakes new albums beats out eminems new shit. Plus eminem is a pop rapper so pop sells more. Drake is hiphop/R&B with some grime.
I said nowhere near that right now. Drakes new albums beats out eminems new shit. Plus eminem is a pop rapper so pop sells more. Drake is hiphop/R&B with some grime.
Drake is the britney spears or Rap. Breh Eminem is a legend FOH. Em still outsold Drake and EM is a real MC.
Drake is more pop than Eminem. There is way more singing in Views than on any Eminem album. What grime? There is none in Aubrey’s music. Aubrey will never top his sales.
You’re just mad drake has the hit singles eminem doesn’t have right now.
Why would I be mad? Eminem has hits for days, half of Drake’s “hits” comes from features on other artists’ songs.
Why compae to Tha Carter IV sales and not Tha Carter III?
Greatest artist of this generation … riiight… You Drake stans ( you guys get this word even another meaning ) If he sells great, but reviews are bad… It’s like your little minds MONEY>Everything
No doubt. The Drake cheerleaders (that ain’t gettin’ paid to promote his trash) keep talkin’ about sales, but who really gives a shit about how many albums you sold!? It doesn’t mean your material is good. Nowadays, more people than ever have incredibly poor taste in music, so I’m not really surprised by Drake moving units. All the brainwashed clowns are buying the shit up. And don’t forget, Drake a pop artist, not a hip-hop artist.
The album’s still mediocre as hell.
Look at how mad the haters are getting. Drake is shitting on the rap industry. How can you haters deny that drakr is the face of rap. How can you deny that none of these other rappers are even in the same level as the rap god. Untitled by kendrick couldn’t even sell more than 200k albums. TDE as a goup cant touch the numbets views put up. Let this be a lesson to you hipsters. In 2016 without drake hiphop would be dead. The numbers thay every other rapper does is a joke compared to the god. Isnt it funny that all your US rappers cant touch Canadian nimbers.
Why should numbers mean anything to fans? The only thing that matters is the music.
Why does every single site report different numbers for this shit? Which is it??
“top5 no debating!! Top5! Top5! Top5”!
Adding streams to your soundscan count is like steroids in baseball….big ass * next to that platinum.
…we all kno drake is th king…if u say th album aint dope y do pple buy it…those artist u say hve dope albums or wat …y cant they sell more hahaha…VIEWS