Cyrus Langhorne
Young Money star Drake knows it's all about the numbers and publicly reacted to his new If You're Reading This It's Too Late retail release toppling the sales chart this week.
Drake hopped onto his Instagram page to react to the huge first-week numbers.
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According to reports, the overnight project crushed its competition atop the sales chart this week.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late moved 535,000 units in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Nielsen Music, with pure album sales comprising 495,000 of that figure — all from digital downloads. (Billboard)
Based on sales chart site Hits Daily Double, Drizzy’s surprise project was expected to sell over 497,000 copies.
Rap star Big Sean admitted he made sure to contribute to Drizzy’s sales total in a recent interview.
But he did go out and support his friend Drake’s mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. “Yeah, of course. I bought it. I think it’s great. That’s the homie. I got nothin’ but love for them OVO boys. They my dogs right there.” (Rap-Up)
Drizzy treated fans to the unexpected music gem on Twitter last Thursday (February 12) night.
http://t.co/KcZooNLcPE pic.twitter.com/s6krTAeuke
— Drizzy (@Drake) February 13, 2015
Half a mili in 1 week?? Dezam its Drakemania.
See, rap still sells. The way I see it all these rappers bragging about money and their wealth have no excuse. PERIOD! Well done Drizzy.
Rap does sell. I wish hip hop was still popular though.
if its mixtape, more money for his pocket less Cash Money
Congratu-hatin!
Rap Music’s resident Snow Bunny Drake is at it again!
eMCee, DeeJay, Breakdancer, Graffiti Artist, Beatboxer, Teacher of the culture, Student of the culture.
Consciousness/ Self-Awareness. If you don’t fit into one of these
categories, or don’t perform one or more of these duties, you are not
Hip Hop. It is that
simple.
Drake shows flashes of being an emcee, but he is really just a good rapper. Couldn’t sit through the whole thing because I heard on the internet that you start ovulating if you listen to an entire Drake album.
His Album is ok. “You and the 6” is probably the best track on it. I’m still on that “Tesuo & Youth”. Perfect Winter Album.
In this rap climate 500k is impressive,shit about six artist goes gold..but when I think of “monster sales” I think of 875-950k