Drake’s “Views” Is His Sixth #1 Album

DRAKE just scored his sixth #1 on the Billboard 200.  “Views” sold over a million copies last week . . . way ahead of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade”, which came in at #2 after selling 321,000 in its second week.

 

“Views” sold more in one week than any other album in 2016.  And the album’s songs were streamed a record 245.1 million times in the U.S. last week.  That’s way more than the previous record, when Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” racked up just over 100 million plays during its first week.  Here are the Top 10 albums . . .

 

 

  1. NEW: “Views”, Drake . . . 1,040,000 copies

 

  1. “Lemonade”, Beyoncé . . . 321,000 copies

 

  1. Prince’s “Purple Rain” soundtrack . . . 75,000 copies

 

  1. “The Very Best of Prince”, Prince . . . 70,000 copies

 

  1. “Anti”, Rihanna . . . 51,000 copies

 

  1. NEW: “Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser”, Rob Zombie . . . 41,000 copies

 

  1. NEW: The “Now 58” compilation . . . 37,000 copies

 

  1. “Traveller”, Chris Stapleton . . . 31,000 copies

 

  1. “Purpose”, Justin Bieber . . . 29,000 copies

 

  1. “25”, Adele . . . 28,000 copies

 

 

(Billboard)

 

 

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