Here’s how many times Drake’s ‘Views’ was sold or streamed in its first week
Here’s an impressive figure: 852,000.
That’s how many copies Drake sold of his new album, “Views,†during its first week on sale — enough by a wide margin to give the Canadian rapper his sixth straight No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, according to the trade magazine. The number also reflects the biggest single-sales week for any album released so far in 2016, including Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,†which moved 485,000 copies in its debut week.
Hold up, though, because here’s a really impressive figure: 245 million.
That’s how many times tracks from “Views†were streamed in the album’s first seven days of availability — a record, said Billboard, which noted that the set’s streaming total more than doubled that of the previous record-holder, “Lemonade,†which had 115 million streams in a similar period.
“Views’†streams amounted to 163,392 of what Billboard calls “streaming equivalent albums.†That means the album’s official first-week tally, as reflected on the Billboard 200, is 1.04 million equivalent album units.
Behind “Views,†“Lemonade†came in at No. 2 on this week’s chart with 321,000 units, followed by two titles by the late Prince: the “Purple Rain†soundtrack at No. 3 and “The Very Best of Prince†at No. 4. Rounding out the top 5 was “Anti†by Rihanna.
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