Drakeis back on top of the charts.$ome $exy $ongs 4 U,the rappers collaborative album with fellow Canadian PartyNext Door, has debuted atop Billboards 200 albums chart, the publication confirmed on Sunday, marking Drakes 14th Number One album.
The record opened with 287.04 million first-week streams, along with 25,000 album sales, according to Luminate (viaBillboard).
The album replacedKendrick LamarsGNXfor the Number One slot, perhaps a bit of a consolation prize asGNXskyrocketed last weekafter Lamars laudedSuper Bowl halftime showearlier this month.
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$ome $exy $ongs 4 Umarks Drakes first Number One album since he and Lamarsrap beef infamously escalated last year.
Lamars Not Like Us became the runaway hit from a series of barbs the two rappers threw at one another, with Lamar calling drake a pedophile.
The song went on to win five Grammys, including for Record and Song of the Year, and it topped the Hot 100 for three weeks.
Drake filed a defamation lawsuitagainst Universal Music Group, his own record company, back in January, claiming the label group decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize allegations that it understood were not only false, but dangerous.
UMG denied the allegations, firing back that Drake seeks to weaponize the legal process to silence an artists creative expression and to seek damages from UMG for distributing that artists music.
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ForPartyNextDoor,$ome $exy $ongsmarks his highest-charting debut ever, and his highest-charting album since 2016sPartyNextDoor 3,which peaked at Number Three.
Elsewhere on the chart, Sabrina CarpentersShort n Sweetcame in second this week,GNXtook third, SZAsSOStook fourth and Bad BunnysDebi Tirar Mas Fotosrounded out the top five.
