West’s “Donda,” last week’s chart-topper, fell to second place with the equivalent of 141,000 sales, a drop of 54 percent.Īlso this week, the veteran British heavy metal band Iron Maiden scored its highest chart position ever with “Senjutsu,” which opens at No. According to Billboard, the 744 million total streams for “Certified Lover Boy” include nearly 29 million for videos. When “Scorpion” came out, Billboard counted only audio streams in 2020, it began incorporating both audio and video clicks. The minutiae of chart composition shows that “Certified Lover Boy” is not as close to that record as it might seem.
In its first week out, “ Scorpion” had 746 million clicks.
6.)īut “Certified Lover Boy” did not quite match the streaming performance of Drake’s last proper studio album, “Scorpion,” in 2018. (The only non-Drake song is “Stay,” by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, which fell four spots to No. Nine of the chart’s Top 10 songs are by Drake, with “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring Future and Young Thug, at No. (West’s “ Donda” opened with the equivalent of 309,000 sales, including 357 million streams.)ĭrake also dominates Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, which incorporates streams, radio play and song downloads. It broke Spotify’s record for the most streams in a single day. In its first week out, the album’s 21 songs racked up 744 million streams in the United States - about 74,000 per minute - far more than any other title. That is more than any title since Taylor Swift’s “ Folklore” had 846,000 in July 2020, before a change in Billboard’s chart rules disqualified most retail bundles, like giving fans a download with the sale of a T-shirt - a highly effective but contested sales strategy.ĭrake’s great strength is streaming, and “Certified Lover Boy” did not disappoint. 1 on Billboard’s chart with the equivalent of 613,000 sales in the United States, according to MRC Data. In its first week out, Drake’s album opened at No.
Now the answer is clear: “ Certified Lover Boy” is a blockbuster, eclipsing everything else released this year, although as a streaming phenomenon it fell slightly short of Drake’s own record. All year long, Drake has teased his fans with a new album, which he said early on would be called “ Certified Lover Boy.” It was sure to be a hit, but how big? For Drake, a titan of the streaming era - who over the last week has been facing off against Kanye West - the stakes were high.
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