Drake Debuts at Number 1

As expected, Drake‘s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late made an impressive entry on the Billboard 200. Going digital on Thursday night (February 12), IYRTITL has moved 535,000 units, according to Billboard. Of that number, 495,000 were from digital downloads alone. The album also marks Drake’s fourth chart-topper following 2010’s Thank Me Later (447,000), 2011’s Take Care (631,000) and 2013’s Nothing Was the Same (658,000). On top of that, IYRTITL has also earned the second-largest sales week among all albums in the past year, behind only Taylor Swift’s 1989 (1.287 million). And all this after setting up a new Spotify record 17.3 million times in three days.

Other notable chart news includes the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack’s No. 2 position with 258,000 copies sold and Sam Smith’s 164,000 units on No. 3 thanks to the additional GRAMMY push.