More Life gave Drake and his squad something to celebrate this week afterwards the album debut at No. ane on Billboard 200 chart.

The playlist sold 505,000 album equivalent units in the first week of release according to Billboard. More Life marks Drake'due south seventh No. one album to date. Nielsen Music likewise reported that this is the biggest album debut since Drake's Views terminal Apr which sold a whopping ane.04 million copies in the first week.

Breaking downward the numbers, More Life saw 384.8 1000000 streams which equate to 257,000 units. The rest of the numbers are from traditional anthology sales. This beat the previous streaming record which was held past Views which saw 245.1 million streams in the starting time week equating to 163,000 streaming equivalent album units. The album is but bachelor digitally and 226,000 copies were bought and download in the first week. Another 23,000 units were from TEA. Views sold 852,000 copies from traditional album sales through digital download in the first week. More Life was streamed 300 million times on Apple Music solitary on calendar week one.

Drake has announced that concrete CD copies of More Life volition exist released on March 31 and a vinyl LP version at a later on engagement. With his 7th Billboard 200 No. 1 album, Drake currently ties with Eminem and Kanye Westward for the nigh No. 1 albums on the nautical chart amid hip hop artists. Jay Z holds the pinnacle spot with xiii No. 1 albums over his career. Given his balmy beef with Drake, there certain to be some contest on who tin be the hip hop rex of the nautical chart.

Drake also broke the record for most streams in 1 twenty-four hour period on both Apple Music (89.ix million) and Spotify (61.3 1000000). Seems Drizzy's partnership with Apple Music is proving to be mutually beneficial to both parties considering Beats 1 is seeing some of its highest listening numbers and Drake is moving large numbers of streams on the platform.

The Toronto rapper will be kick off his final two "Boy Meets Globe" tour dates this evening in Amsterdam. The final concert of the tour volition be tomorrow night at the Ziggo Dome.