Drake's latest album, Views, has set a ton of chart records since its release in April. Now, it has knocked down yet another barrier.
By reaching its ninth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Views has the third-most weeks by a hip-hop album at the top of the chart, beating out Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP. Drake's only competition now is Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme and MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, which clocked 16 and 21 weeks at number one, respectively.
Views has been at No. 1 since its release and shows no signs of slowing down. Its nine-week run is the longest consecutive span for an album since Adele's 21 ruled for ten weeks in a row back in 2012. It is the longest consecutive span for a male artist at the top of the album charts since Billy Ray Cyrus, all the way back in 1992.
Views also had the biggest opening sales week of any 2016 album, moving 851,000 equivalent album units (Billboard's algorithm incorporates sales, on-demand streaming, and digital track sales). The album's single "One Dance" is the longest-running No. 1 song of the millennium in the United Kingdom, beating out "Umbrella" by Drake's rumored girlfriend Rihanna. It is now one of the five longest-running No. 1 singles in the history of the U.K., joining the ranks of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)." As if all that wasn't enough, Views has also generated more than one billion streams.
