Drake is having another big week on Billboard‘s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, a ranking where the Canadian musician can always be found. In fact, he usually fills more spaces than any other artist.
Throughout the past several months, he has dominated more often than not, thanks to the release of a trio of projects that arrived at the same time. Iceman, which he promoted and hyped for months, dropped at the same time as Maid of Honor and Habibti – and nobody knew about the latter two until hours before they became available. All three remain on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally, which ranks the most-consumed collections in those styles, but Iceman is clearly the fan favorite. As that set rules again, two older sets reach notable milestones.
Take Care Hits 520 Weeks
Take Care is Drake’s second highest-ranking project on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart this week, even as it dips one space to No. 9. As of this frame, the full-length – perhaps the most celebrated of his career – has lived on the genre-specific rundown for 520 weeks, exactly a decade. It is Drake’s first set to reach that landmark figure, and one of a very small number of albums to do so on the list.
Views Reaches 400 Weeks
Views, which followed Take Care by about half a decade, sits half a dozen rungs beneath Take Care as it slips to No. 15. One of Drake’s most commercially successful projects, Views is now up to 400 weeks on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Drake Has Claims Three 400-Week Albums
Views is only the third release by Drake to spend 400 weeks or more on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and it joins Take Care and Scorpion in the feat. The latter of those two is only beating Views by 10 frames.
Iceman Rules for a Seventh Frame
Iceman is already one of Drake’s longest-running leaders on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and it shows no signs of slowing down. The set has spent seven weeks on the tally and has yet to fall from the summit. Iceman ranks as the rapper’s fourth longest-ruling champion, behind Take Care, For All the Dogs and Certified Lover Boy, which racked up 12, 11 and 10 stints in charge, respectively.
Drake Fills 11 Spaces This Week
The Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart features 50 spaces, and this time around, Drake fills 11 of them. It’s rare for any artist to occupy double-digit rungs on any of Billboard‘s albums rosters, let alone those that only feature 50 slots instead of 100, or in the case of the Billboard 200, 200.
Most of Drake’s collections fall from where they sat days ago. Only More Life returns, breaking back in at No. 46.
Here’s a look at where all of Drake’s projects land on this week’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
- No. 1 – Iceman
- No. 9 – Take Care
- No. 11 – Habibti
- No. 15 – Views
- No. 25 – Scorpion
- No. 27 – Thank Me Later
- No. 28 – Certified Lover Boy
- No. 30 – Made of Honor
- No. 34 – Some Sexy Songs for You with PartyNextDoor
- No. 41 – For All the Dogs
- No. 46 – More Life
Drake Scores a Dozen Albums on the Billboard 200
All 11 of Drake’s releases that make space on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart can also be found on the Billboard 200. He occupies an even dozen slots on that busy ranking, as Nothing Was the Same drops to No. 192. That set is Drake’s only release that can be found on a single roster at the moment.
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