In the week since, the album has rocketed to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, which ranks the most popular albums of the week based on different consumption metrics, including traditional album sales and streaming.
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The hip-hop stars launched What a Time to Be Alive with little fan fare, and it has captured the number one spot with an impressive 375,000 units, the third biggest first-week sales of the year (15).
“What A Time To Be Alive” sold 334,000 copies as downloads and had had over 35 million live streams in the US, according to Nielsen, the New York Times reported. Rapper Mac Miller’s new album Go:od AM debuted at No. 4 with 87,000 units. “Beyond grateful”, Future wrote on Instagram along with a photo of himself with his hands in the air. Drake and Future play off each other without missing a beat, seamlessly shifting from verse to verse and ending with a great outro by Drake. He reached the top that year with Unfinished Business (with R. Kelly) and MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents: Collision Course (with Linkin Park).
The Glee cast has had the most singles top the Billboard Hot 100 (207), followed by Lil Wayne (127), Elvis Presley (108), then Drake.
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Drake and Future are members of an elite group of acts to have more than one No. 1 album in a 12-month frame. Since they have conquered the Billboard charts, it’s only right they conquer the world stage next. Drake and Future’s not so surprise album, What A Time To Be Alive-released jointly via Cash Money Records and Epic Records-debuts at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
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