Drake had a solid run, but his streak with Billboard No. 1 album debuts has officially ended.
Hits Daily Double announced the final numbers for the first week of Drizzy’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes on Friday (May 8), and for the first time ever, The Boy will arrive on the Billboard 200 at No. 2 with 226,000 equivalent units sold. Both taking the No. 1 spot and ending Drake’s nine-album, decade-long streak of No. 1 debuts, country singer Kenny Chesney’s Here And Now album will arrive at the top.
Dark Lane Demo Tapes was released on May 1 as a surprise project amid the COVID-19 quarantine, and does not stand as an official studio album in the OVO rapper’s catalogue. Announced just hours before it dropped, the 14-track tape is a mix of previously leaked songs, loosies that Drake has thrown out on SoundCloud in the past and a few unheard cuts that feature Chris Brown, Future, Playboi Carti and more.
The project also features Drake’s new single “Toosie Slide,” which almost immediately made TikTok history as it garnered over one billion views in just two days on the social platform. The song also helped Drake tie Mariah Carey’s record of most No. 1 debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 as it became his seventh one to top the chart, but not everyone is a fan. On an April episode of his Brilliant Idiots podcast with co-host Andrew Schulz, Charlamagne Tha God expressed his disdain for a song he says is just a product of Drake “chasing trends.”
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“I think it’s wack and I think it’s beneath Drake,” Charlamagne said. “I think that when you’re the biggest artist in the world, when you’re the biggest rapper in the world, I don’t like to see you chasing trends. It’s like, why be a surfer when you’re a fucking wave? I just didn’t respect it.”
Drake will have yet another no. 1 album with 226k albums (with actual sales of 500k opening week). Kenny chesney cheated to the top technical with 234k but 200k were illegally bought by him so they don’t count. He sold 34k or barely enough to be in the top 10
How are you not dead from AIDs or pregnant yet from all that Drake dick rideory…If it was a sport… you’d win and ESPY.
So I can’t be a fan? I’m just stating facts
Do farts turn you on? What does diarrhea do for you guys? Why do you guy love bathhouses and musicals so much? Why do you all drive either Hybrid Prius or a Tesla or Miata?
Yummy, yummy, yummy Drake loves Kenny farts in his tummy!
Guess you’re good at typing while looking past Drake’s balls,huh.and without gagging or choking….Now that’s talent….you must’ve learned that from your mom…. congratulations.
a lot of homophobic idiots out here. Whats wrong with being gay?
I like gay men, AMEN!!!! You have a Grindr profile?
Drake actually sold 476k copies. 250k copies were unaccounted for this week. They overaccounted kenny’s sales by 200k
I work as an accountant for ovo and that’s why I know drake sold a lot more than 226k
Shutup bitch!!
Its truth
That you’re gayer that two boys f**king
Approximately the same amount of times u took it from behind from Drake himself. U showed him your ohh vee ohhh face hahah
and another homphobic bastard joins.
Aren’t usually happy when another man joins? Or does Drake not allow that?
Wow there’s a lot of gayness on this page…. you can almost smell the amount of estrogen in the air.
so are homophobic bastards like you
Calm down,fanny danny. It’s ok didn’t mean to ruffle your panties.
troll
F@9
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Still a f@9
Screw him, they just mad they can’t get the D
Let’s be honest, Drake’s album was whack. It should’ve been an easy get with all these middle schoolers who listen to him at home doing nothing. All these conspiracy theorists just in they feelings about getting knocked off by a country singer. Lol
I work for ovo an an accountant so I know when soundscan is lying.
Middle schoolers. ??? Hahahahahhaah. Nigga the whole ? world. Was watching. Toosie sliding BECAUSE DO TO THE QUARANTINE PANDEMIC hating as nigga tryna compare a singer rapper hiphop pop TO A COUNTRY SINGER. YOU PROBLY BITT HIS ASS HOLE THATS WHY YOU TALKING SHIT !!
Selling tour bundles to beat Drake loosies smh
more like kenny bought copies. Not many are buying tours.
How’s it feel being the world’s biggest butt plug
Same as Travis, the weeknd or post Malone
drake is the dickrider of the decade.
No, he’s the dicksucker of the decade
Damn sounds like this Kenny Chesney guy is a racist and a total anti-semite then. how dare he? we must send the CNN social justice warrior outrage mob to boycott Kenny Chesney and badger his business partners and disrupt all his business
Seriously , who do the hell is Drake ?
Kinda like a new age Michael Jackson that occasionally raps . His music tends to make vaginal orifices sweaty and lubricated. Similar to Michael Jackson, he’s also been occasionally known to have had direct contact with the underage orifices.
you are right about only one thing. He is the next Michael jackson
But gayer
He makes boys balls moist and men’s sucks hard with his seductive songs.
U lost your mind. Drake is no Michael Jackson and will never be. Michael set the world on fire when he dropped an album. Mike would kill drake in his own country. He is the king of pop. Everybody in the world wanted to moon walk. No artist will ever compete against the video thriller. U kids just talking shit .
Just another gay singer/rapper from Canada
I guess the new Hokey Pokey didn’t catch on? LOL. So… the guy isn’t the richest rapper (no where close to it). He doesn’t have the most Grammys (no where close as well). He’s not the most selling rapper (again). He no longer has THIS corny record. He isn’t on any MC of note’s top 10 list. YET HE ALLEGEDLY SOLD MORE ALBUMS THEN THE BEATLES? Strange, right? LOL. Hopefully this is the beginning of him
Fading into irrelevance. This dude is WAY too corny. He might get realest N word tatted on his Canadian face though. LOL
Drake doesn’t invest in overpriced liquor and headsets. He sticks to making classic music. He has another no.1 album (the 200k kenny bought for his album did not count) and will surprass eminem in total album sales as soon as his next album comes out
He invests in oversized vibrators and dildos tho
What classic music? Lol. He (like Lil Wayne) thrive in a time where hip hop lost its identity. Average lines and being able to hold a note (can’t even really sing) is what hip hop has become. It’s sad, I wish him all the best and hope he makes all the money he wants, but he’s not great. Also, he doesn’t even have to sell albums, ppl stream his shit so we can say he has sold more than the Beatles or whoever but really, it’s not even close.
I get goosebumps everytime I drive thru tha 6 at night. I feel Drakes pain. If your not from the T Dot you wont understand we took over hip hop from 2009-2012 we had a good 3 year run now we have a million clones in Canada all making the same music. We will take over again
He does rap pop music not hip hop. Please know the difference. Any fool can do pop music. Hip hop is much harder. Hip hop is forever at some point drake will fad out.
Kenny Chesney is the best!!! #NoShoesNation
Lol fuqq, hip hop critics or whatever yall call yourself are sooo played out.. Everytime in the comments section it’s always some gay shit. Fuq man, either you love the article or don’t. Yall always have to swing dicks and compare dick sizes. Now that’s some real gay shit fuq!!
Dude, you’re on here bringing up gays and dicks. Dick sizes? Swinging dicks? We know what’s on YOUr mind. LOL
Hahahaha. I guess those click farms Drake uses to inflate his streams are shut down due to that Rona.