From 2011 to 2015, the success of Drake remained consistent too.Īt the start of the 2016 season, the Toronto shooting Guard stepped up strongly, with a 34 point average over the first 7 games. In the same way that DeRozan became big inside the NBA in 2010, going from 8 to 17 points per game, Drake went from a Gold EP in the US, to his first Platinum album Thank Me Later, in 2010.įrom 2011 to 2015 DeRozan kept growing slowly until reaching All-Star status. Ironically, Drake followed exactly the same path as the current star of the team, DeMar DeRozan.Ī mere four days before signing for the Young Money label, owned by Lil Wayne, DeMar DeRozan was drafted by the Raptors. The Canadian artist is well known for being basketball team Toronto Raptors, number one fan. He began independently releasing mixtapes, an EP and then ultimately signing with a major label, which happened in 2009, after the success of his mixtape So Far Gone earlier that year. Drake is one of those artist.Īfter having spent his younger years acting in the Canadian TV series Degrassi, Drake jumped into the typical route, that many rapper do. The album was initially titled Views From The 6, but was changed to Views in the weeks leading up to release.There are some artists that are around for a while, without ever being a major selling force, who suddenly just happen to become one. The album has dominated the Hip-Hop news cycle over the last couple of weeks, largely due to Drake leaking information about the album via social media. The albums songs however did become available on Pandora this weekend. The album is currently an Apple Music exclusive, but will be come available on other streaming platforms this Friday, May 6. The Drake Viewsalbum was released Friday, April 29 after more than a year of anticipation.

If Views starts with over 800,000 copies sold, it will be just the 10 th album to sell more than 800,000 copies in a single week in the past 10 years - and the first by a male artist to do so since Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience launched with 968,000 in the week ending March 24, 2013. His only charting album to miss the top was his debut EP, So Far Gone, which peaked at No. 1-debuting full-length albums on the Billboard 200: What a Time To Be Alive (with Future, in 2015), If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015), Nothing Was the Same, Take Care (2012) and Thank Me Later (2010).

Views follows Drake’s five consecutive No.

Drake views from the 6 album sales