Much to the contempt of his naysayers, Young Money Rapper Drake has become Hip Hop’s reigning champion.
Successfully pulling a number of stunts and tricks on the careers of many a Rap staple with his debut effort ‘Thank Me Later‘, his acclaimed but undoubtedly short career has gotten off to an impressive start.
Now, the release of his new album ‘Take Care‘ is about to give him even further cause to celebrate.
Find out how many copies it is predicted to sell in its first week of release below…
675K-725K
Expected to come in at #1 when next week’s Billboard 200 chart positions are announced, the LP is more than likely to exceed the first week sales of r ‘Later’ which moved 447,000 units upon its release in June last year.
If ‘Care’ does indeed shift around the 675,000 to 725,000 units sold mark, it will have the third highest debut sales for an album released this year, following Lady GaGa’s ‘Born This Way‘ at #2 and Lil Wayne‘s ‘Tha Carter IV‘ at #1.
Quite interestingly, he is expected to achieve this feat without the aid of a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and despite the fact that the project (quite unfortunately) surfaced online days ago.
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Eh
sure!
Not surprised.It was obvious that he would have an impressive first week in the charts (even though I didn’t think he would sell that much tbh 😕 ).He is still cashing in on the hype of his debut and of course the collaboration with Nicki gave the album the much needed extra push.However, I’ll stick to what I predicted a month ago; that the album would do well for 2-3 weeks and then start slipping having no longetivity.It’s going to be easy for him to get the platinum certification, though and that by itself is a big achievement so congrats to him for that 😉
FANTASTIC!!!
DRAKE IS INDEFINETELY ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED RAPPERS TO SURFACE IN THE PAST COUPLE YEARS!!!
I’M DEFINETELY BUYING IT – EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE LEAKED VERSION ALREADY!
I do believe that you once again have your facts wrong. Lady Gaga had the #1 highest selling debut this year followed by Lil Wayne.
Im not buying those numbers.
I don’t believe that many people are going to buy his album either.
Most people I know and reviews i’ve seen haven’t been that great.
Alot of people didn’t even know that he had an album coming out.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Then again weezy and his wack ass album almost did 1 million….
So we’ll see
Oh please… Kreayshawn gonna kill this f** in albums sells just wait til kreayshawn album come out I can see that album selling out everywhere!!! It’s gonna hit number 1 on billboards & iTunes just watch and when she hits number #1 all you teamminaj, teamrhianna, teambeyonce, bow tha f*** down kiss her f****** feet and tell her she tha f****** best female rapper in tha game hahaha I can’t wait til kreayshawn show you h*** & n***** how to sell in tha first week s*** ya ain’t ready kreay taking over
Good one Drake, if he achieves though sales then damn!
man bs aint that many people checking for this album..he doesnt have any songs on the bb top 30..no hate but i love hip hop and drake is the worst thing to ever happen to the game
ermm i love drake but there is no way his goin to sell that much thats my opnion the i would say around 400 i mean u telling me that drake is going to have higher sales than mary j blige and rihanna whos album go on sale next week
and with the fact that he does not have to sell it for 0,99 $
Everyone knows young money buys a chunk of their artists albums…. f*** drake. disrespectful racoon lookin ass b****
His album was alright to much slow songs tho.. Tha songs that really suck was tha one with that Kim clone clown on there I forgot her name I think it’s sicki or dicki no that’s not it.. Oh that’s right Nicki yea
FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @HONEY_DIP11 I FOLLOW BACK!
@WHITE GIRL MOB
I “ACTUALLY” DON’T MIND KREAYSHAWN – HER MIXTAPE WAS HOT. ESPECIALLY THESE CERTAIN THREE SONGS. BUT GIRL PLEASE – Y U GETTING SO CARRIED AWAY & AHEAD OF YO’SELF???
-__________-
Not surprised.
Rap Album sales are always so front loaded.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy debuts at 500k & ends 1.2 Million
Thank Me Later debuts 450K & ends 1.5 Million
TIvsTIP debuts at 470K & ends at 1.5 Million
Even JayZ’s 3 latest albums:
Kindom Come debuts 680k ends at 1.5 Million
American Gangster debuts 425k & ends at 1.1 Million
The Blueprint 3 debuts at 476K & ends at 1.8 Million
WHO CARES??,
hes just another FAD Anyway…
LIL WAYNE + DRAKE = WORSE Rappers EVER!!!
J.COLE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 🙂
@Jake I ain’t getting carried away I’m telling tha truth everybody know kreayshawn gonna outsell drake, Rihanna, beyonce, Nicki minaj, in tha first week. Like come on now she is tha first WHITE rapper doing it right now… Nobody can touch kreayshawn but lil Kim I love me some lil Kim ( shout out to teamkim) and yea you right kreayshawn had one of tha best mixtapes I ever heard. So ya better show so respect
If he indeed moves between 600k-700k in the 1st week, I would be thoroughly convinced that BABY aka BIRD MAN or Mack Mane (president of YM) purchased the bulk of the CDs! This CD has had the buzz of 2 dead flies and although you hear a few tunes he has had out for a good while, I just don’t think the buzz around this CD would warrent those numbers. But hey, he does have the backing of the US & CAN so who knows? *Kanye shrug*
Birdman is going to but most of them albums.
@WHITE GIRL MOB
LMAO! OKAY GIRL – I HEAR YOU!!! THE MIXTAPE WAS DOPE – THE GIRL ISN’T AS MUCH OF BAD RAPPER THAT SOME PPL MAKE HER OUT TO BE BUT, TO BE HONEST, KREAYSHAW’S PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES AND LACK OF EXPOSURE (TO THOSE OUTSIDE OF THE RAP GENRE) IS TOO LITTLE!!! IF SHE IS TO GET THAT #1 ALBUM THAT WILL “SLAY” I-TUNES & SO ON… SHE NEEDS TO BE KNOWN!
THEN AGAIN – IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE – THE GAME REACHED NO. 1 WITH 97,000 + COPIES!!!
#PUN INTENDED
BLEACHonce is fading 😕
the H** is a thing of the past 🙂
Talk that Talk will sell 10 m ww 😉
Personally i believe that Cash Money is buying about 300K of their artist album! Wayne= about 950K in reality i think he did about 600K! Drake album is not even HOT! it’s too RnBish for a rapper and it leaked in full!!! In reality he’s gonna do about 300K-450K *and Cash Money will buy 300K*
@THE GREAT LACE”FOOL”
YO B****, HAVE YOU LISTENED TO KHIA’S “MOTOR MOUF”???
#HOT#
🙂
This album sucks, glad I didn’t buy it. I’d advise that none of you do. Unless you’re depressed and looking for music to cue when you jump. :/
Why so blue, green man?
@Jake kreayshawn is known she got in that beef with Rick Ross that was all over every website & she is making usteam videos so people can see what she is all bout her fans love her on Twitter and tumblr. She also on a lot of magazine covers too & people are still commenting on her gucci gucci video on youtub like it’s new. Soooo to me kreayshawn is doing her job
I starting to think that Young Money is buying their artists album. I’m not saying is not possible…But only his fans are checking for him and he didn’t even promote this album. I SMELL B*******!!
Yayyyyy!! I just came back from target and got the deluxe. Cant wait to blast!
I predict big second week decreases like Lil Waynes. He did over a million the first week and still hasnt reached 2million.
cosign kingbeystan. this is so suspect that both wayne and drake had less buzz on their albums this year but are still selling almost the same amount of units or even more (in drake’s case) that their last albums sold. something’s not right.
Well damn! That is impressive. I guess his fanbase is solid and regardless of the leak they went out to support. I honeslty didn’t think he was gonna sell more than his last album first week sales to be honest. *shrugs*
I haven’t been hearing too many postive things about the album, even coming from die heard Drake fans. Plus the only song that I have liked so far from it is the one with him & Nicki and I can tell I am gonna get sick of that real soon. Drake & Nicki, as well as their mentor, are to of the most over exposed rappers out.
It is funny how Wayne and now Drake got bad reviews for the both of their albums but thier sales were through the roof. Real funny…..
Oh well, Congrats to Drizzy. *shrugs*
YALL F*** ARE TOOOO MAD! HIS FAN BASE IS EXTREMELY STRONG, DRAKE KILLING IT
Lmao at Drake got some of yall JUST PLAIN OL’ MAD AND UPSET!
IT’S OK!
BEYONCE COULD NEVER DEBUT THAT HIGH!
THIS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WRITE YOUR OWN MUSIC, PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD CAN RELATE TO.
IF YOUR FAVES DID THAT, MAYBE THEY WILL BE RELEVANT AND NOT FLOPPING….
DRAKE IS HERE TO STAY. #DEAL
& yall cant say only his fans are checking for him…WHO THE F*** ARE YALL?
DO YALL HAVE CONNECTIONS IN EVERY F****** TOWN/CITY/STATE AND ASKING PEOPLE IF THEY ARE CHECKING FOR DRAKE?
OH. THOUGHT SO.
@VA STAND UP!!
DRAKE GOT BAD REVIEWS??? BOY BYE.
Allmusic 4 out of 5 stars
The A.V. Club A-
Entertainment Weekly C+
Los Angeles Times 3 out of 4 stars
The New York Times favorable
Pitchfork Media 8.6 out of 10
Rolling Stone 4 out of 5 stars
Slant Magazine 4.5 out of 5
Spin 8 out of 10
The Village Voice….favorable
That’s a great first week. I haven’t been into Drake since ‘So Far Gone’ for a lot of reasons, but good for him.
Huge numbers.
Why is it soooooo hard to believe that Drake would do numbers??? He has a huge fan base, a solid one, and alot of them are women, just because the six people in your circle aint checking for it doesnt mean the rest of the world isn’t. America is filled with millions upon millions of people, why is it hard to believe that about 700,000 of them would buy a drake cd? I swear you walmart Cashiers need to stop tryna predict whats going on in music and stick to ringing bishes up!
Good for Drake, if he does those numbers people will just have to DEAL…..
Good for him, but honestly….the album kinda sucks. I gave a solid listen, I was excited but it really disappointed me…oh well
Drake had every celeb and person covering Marvins Rooms his song is #1.and #4 on Itunes. The people like Drakes music. Sorry your pop tart faves who don’t write their own music never ever doing it.
I thought the album was good. A couple of the songs could have been left off, but otherwise it was enjoyable to listen to.
He will probably sell about that amount and debut at #1. The songs are all charting on itunes.
To say that the young money sales figures are shady would be an understatement. Is Drake really this popular?
TAKE CARE was not even a trending topic on the release day.
HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS.
i don’t understand why he sells so many copies with his album when there is no attention on him!! Honesly who cares of Drake?! from Young money we are interested in Nicki or Lil wayne but not him…
damn…not hating..but im not buying those numbers….
The critics have not been so kind to his 2nd effort but of course it will sell the first week. Second week it will drop dramatically especialy with it being leaked already.
Drake is receiving GREAT reviews for “Take Care.” Where are you reading that it is otherwise?
Anyway, if he pushes that many units with a fully leaked album, all I can say is wow! Good luck to him.
IMPRESSIVE indeed… Ppl, just accept it. The album is exceptionally well. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it & from the few songs I’ve heard it sounded amazing. You never know, the leak is what probably helped him gain that many sales. And all of you are speaking of the youtube reviews, made by ppl who really wouldn’t recognize a good album if it slapped them in the face, then yeah I guess you have heard bad things about the album. Cause lord knows sits like twitter, facebook & youtube make or break an album. LOL, smh.
Oh & @White Girl mob
I think you need to go crawl back under a rock before you start a STAN war that you cannont & will not finish. Thank you.
good for drake i for one downloaded it ( free only pay for ppl i truly respect) and i was right on the money for doing so it was def not that hot of a cd it was so so thank me later was better and that wasn’t even that great of an album
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