The Numbers Game: Drake is #1

Drake

If you’re reading this: Drake has the #1 album in the country, broke a Spotify record for most streams from an album in its opening week, and has sold 535,000 copies of an album that had only three days of sales. Hell, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late even beat out the Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack for the top spot.

Hopefully we’ll see an album review for If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late later this week or early next week.

In other news:

  • Even with the ‘Album of the Year’ Grammy controversy, Beck‘s album Morning Phase saw a 483% rise in sales. It currently sits at #8.
  • Speaking of Grammy controversy: After 62 weeks on the charts, Beyonce‘s self-titled album is still in the Top 50. All hail Queen Bey (Even with those untouched pictures recently surfacing).
  • With both Nick Minaj‘s The Pinkprint (Which went over 500,000 sales this week) and J. Cole‘s 2015 Forest Hills Drive both going Gold so early in the year, are we guaranteed a Platinum Hip-Hop album in 2015 (Taylor Swift was the only artist to drop a Platinum album last year)?

#1 Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (Last Week: N/A) – 535,000; Total: N/A [Debut]
#12 Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint (Last Week: #8) – 48,800; Total: 509,000 (Gold) [9 Weeks]
#16 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive (Last Week: #19) – 31,200; Total: 768,000 (Gold) [10 Weeks]
#24 Ne-Yo – Non-Fiction (Last Week: #16) – 23,400; Total: 83,100 [3 Weeks]
#34 Beyonce – Beyonce (Last Week: #33) – 16,900; Total: 2,218,000 (2x Platinum) [62 Weeks]
#39 Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife (Last Week: #31) – 16,300; Total: 69,700 [6 Weeks]
#41 Pitbull – Globalization (Last Week: #28) – 16,200; Total: 112,700 [6 Weeks]
#45 Kid Ink – Full Speed (Last Week: #14) – 8,100; Total: 45,300 [2 Weeks]


Hip-Hop + R&B album sales for the week of February 10th (Top 50 & New Releases)