Cyrus Langhorne
Young Money rapper Drake and Future’s explosive What a Time To Be Alive album has reportedly sold over 300,000 copies in its opening week.
According to reports, the new retail release has dismantled its competition atop the sales chart.
Drake & Future’s collaborative mixtape, What a Time to Be Alive (YMCMB/Republic/Epic), has topped the HITS Album Sales Chart with 340k and the Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) Chart with 379k. Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey’s highly anticipated Honeymoon (Interscope) debuted at #2 with 111k in sales and 121k at SPS. Warner Bros.’ Mac Miller follows at #3 with 78k for GO:OD AM and Columbia’s David Gilmour debuts at #4 with 68k for Rattle That Lock, while WMG’s Shinedown rounds out the Top 5 with 61k for Threat to Survival. (HITS Daily Double)
Last weekend, NBA star LeBron James showed off his support for the album on Instagram.
The duo unleashed the project onto Apple Music’s OVO Sound Radio last Sunday (September 20) night prior to treating fans to links on social media.
OVO SOUND RADIO @ 6PM EST TODAY! 6TH EPISODE. MAWD TINGS. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
— Drizzy (@Drake) September 20, 2015
http://t.co/LQ9fwnILR9 "What a time to be alive"
— Drizzy (@Drake) September 21, 2015
#WHATATIMETOBEALIVE http://t.co/J9Qg7KwPof #OVOFBG
— FUTURE/FREEBANDZ (@1future) September 20, 2015
#WHATATIMETOBEALIVE http://t.co/J9Qg7KwPof #OVOFBG
— FUTURE/FREEBANDZ (@1future) September 20, 2015
Future delivered two clips of himself and Drake to promote the new release via Instagram this past weekend.
https://instagram.com/p/70go8ekoFY/?taken-by=future
https://instagram.com/p/70_s6-EoOY/?taken-by=future
Not bad at all.
That canadian stimulus package really helping Future out. Biggest numbers of his career.
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Why?
WAIT this wasnt a free mixtape….OH!
Drake dropping mixtapes that do better numbers than 99% of rappers today…