Drake‘s report for the most important streaming week for an album in United States historical past has been smashed by Taylor Swift, who additionally tied a chart report set by JAY-Z within the course of.
With the discharge of her new album The Tortured Poets Division slightly over one week again, she broke the streaming report beforehand held by Drake’s 2018 album, Scorpion — whereas the latter did a whopping 746 million streams in its first week, its successor simply did 891.37 million.
Touchdown at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 tally with 2.61 million album-equivalent models, the 34-year-old is tied with Hov because the solo artist with probably the most No. 1 albums in Billboard 200 historical past — they every have 14. The one act with extra chart-topping albums than them are The Beatles, at 19.
In the meantime, Drake’s 2016 album Views simply turned eight years outdated, and the Toronto native took a visit down reminiscence lane to rejoice it.
Taking to Instagram within the early hours of Monday (April 29), Drizzy shared a sequence of throwback footage from that period, together with early artwork designs, promotional marketing campaign materials and a screenshot of a textual content from his enterprise accomplice Oliver El-Khatib about enlisting the late Virgil Abloh for an OVO Sound Radio combine.
“Views April 29,” he wrote within the caption.
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The 6 God’s nostalgic put up was met with a flood of fond reminiscences from followers, with one writing: “8 years in the past this venture modified my life.”
One other added: “You simply needed to be dere.”
Views was the rapper and singer’s fourth studio album, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with over 1,000,000 album-equivalent gross sales in its first week — this stays the best tally of his profession.
The venture was made up of evergreen hits similar to “Hotline Bling,” “One Dance” and “Controlla,” with visitor appearances from Rihanna, Future, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Pimp C, Wizkid and dvsn.
Throughout an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 across the time of its launch, Drake described Views as one of the best vocal efficiency of his profession up till that time.
“This album might be my highest stage of vocal efficiency,” he stated on the time. “Do I need to take heed to myself or different songs that I’m into? If I didn’t wanna take heed to myself, that’s an issue there.”
