Congrats are in order to Drizzy & team OVO!
For the ninth consecutive week, Drake’s VIEWS remains the no. 1 album in the country – claiming the third-most weeks ever to top charts for a hip-hop album. With the album recently receiving a double-platinum certification last month, the 6-God pulled ahead of Eminem’s 2000 classic, The Marshall Mathers LP, who previously held the record at eight weeks for no. 1 on the charts.
The only projects ahead of his VIEWS album, among the hip-hop genre, are Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme (16 weeks during 1990 and 1991) and the all-time record being MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em – which ran a whopping 21 weeks during 1990.
The bulk of his sales were driven by streaming equivalent album units of 67,000 and a total of 25,000 traditional album sales, totaling to 110,000 equivalent album units for the first week of July.
Since its debut last April 29th, VIEWS has not lost its position and has a chance to make an attempt at breaking the record of Rob Van Winkle – if he can last six more weeks.
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