It’s the second album to sell a million copies this year after Taylor Swift’ 1989 (released in 2014).
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Drake may have a winning one-up on rapper Meek Mill amid their hip-hop beef: If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is the first 2015 release to sell over a million copies.
The music industry has been beset in recent years by falling album sales, with a growing number of fans preferring to listen only to singles or not to buy music at all.
Drake has become the first artist in 2015 to earn a platinum-selling album.
Drizzy snatched his fourth straight album to move over a milli with IYRTITL, which debuted on digital platforms before the physical release.
Oh yeah, Drake considers If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late a mixtape, and his proper album, Views From The 6, will allegedly drop this year.
Celebrating the landmark achievement, Drake posted a picture on Instagram alongside the comment: “Platinum off the tape”.
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Billboard reports that, after selling 8,000 copies last week, ‘If You’re Reading This…’ has now shifted 1.007milllion units in the US. “Views up next. Thank you once again”, he wrote.
