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Drake albums discography
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The Canadian rapper and singer Drake has released eight studio albums, two collaborative albums, three compilation albums, four extended plays, seven mixtapes, and one reissue. His music has been released on record labels Universal Motown Records and Republic Records, along with subsidiaries Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and OVO Sound. With 170 million records sold worldwide,[1] he is among the best-selling music artists in history. Drake has achieved thirteen number-one albums on the Billboard 200.[2] Billboard (Drake and Billboard are both part of UMG) hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade"[3] and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time.[2] RIAA ranks him as the best top-selling digital artist of all time with 244 million in the United States.[4]
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Following him signing to Young Money Entertainment imprint, Drake's mixtape, So Far Gone was repackaged as a 2009 release of his seven-song extended play. The EP peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard 200, and later became certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[5][6] In June 2010, Drake released his debut studio album, Thank Me Later. It debuted atop both the Billboard 200 and the Canadian Albums Chart,[5][7] and later became certified platinum by both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).[6][8]
In November 2011, Drake released his second studio album, Take Care, which debuted at number one in both the United States and Canada, becoming his second album to achieve this feat. In September 2013, Drake released his third studio album, Nothing Was the Same, becoming his third consecutive number-one album in Canada and the US.[5][7]
In 2015, Drake released two mixtapes, If You're Reading This It's Too Late which became available for purchase in February and a surprise joint mixtape with Future, What a Time to Be Alive, which was released in September.[9] Drake's fourth studio album Views was released in April 2016, once again debuting at number one in both the United States and Canada, while also debuting at number one in the United Kingdom, where it became his first number one album. The album achieved huge commercial success, becoming the most popular release of 2016 in the US.[10]
Drake's fifth studio album, Scorpion, was released in June 2018 and again debuted at number one in Canada and in the US. The album was certified platinum on the day it was released[11] and became the first album to be streamed over one billion times in its release week.[12] It sold 732,000 album-equivalent units, which included 160,000 pure album sales, making it the biggest first week of the year. In August 2019, Drake released a compilation album, Care Package which debuted at number one in Canada and the US, moving 109,000 album-equivalent units in the latter.
He released his seventh mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes, in May 2020. The mixtape sold 223,000 album-equivalent units, however, it debuted at number two in the US, marking his first project since So Far Gone (2009) to not top the chart. In September 2021, Drake released his sixth studio album, Certified Lover Boy. The album sold 613,000 album-equivalent units, peaking at number one in several countries including Canada and the US. Drake became the first artist to have ten chart-topping albums with the release. The album was the tenth best-selling album of 2022, moving 1,197,000 album-equivalent units.[13] In 2022, Drake achieved his eleventh and twelfth chart-topping albums: Honestly, Nevermind (June 2022) which moved 204,000 album-equivalent units and Her Loss with 21 Savage (November 2022) which moved 404,000 album-equivalent units; the latter becoming the thirteenth best-selling album of 2023, moving a total of 1,337,000 album-equivalent units.[14] In October 2023, Drake released his eighth studio album, For All the Dogs which opened with 402,000 album-equivalent units and topped the Billboard 200 chart, marking the year's highest-selling rap album. In February 2025, Drake released a collaborative studio album titled Some Sexy Songs 4 U, with PartyNextDoor. The album debuted at number one in the US, moving 246,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
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- In 2018 the album sold 330,000 pure copies, 51,000 in 2019, and 22,600 more in 2020 [42]
- Canadian sales for Certified Lover Boy in 2021[48]
- In 2022 the album sold 16,000 pure copies [13]
- In 2023 the album sold 20,000 pure copies [14]
- In the album's first week, it sold 25,000 pure copies.[64]
- In 2020 the album sold 44,400 pure copies [42]
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