Drake shortened his newest album title from Views From The 6, and perhaps for good reason, it’s best view is from the top.
The album was an Apple Music exclusive for one week, finally becoming available on other streaming platforms on Friday, May 6. A physical CD was released as well.
Billboard reports:
Drake’s album sold 1.04 million equivalent album units in the week ending May 5 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. Traditional album sales comprised 852,000 copies of that sum (a slight upgrade from the 851,000 that was previously reported).
It was earlier reported that Views’ sales start is a personal best sales week for Drake, the largest for any album in 2016, and the biggest for a male artist in over three years. The last album by a man to post a bigger sales week was Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience when it debuted with 968,000 copies sold in the week ending March 24, 2013.