The only reason Views “has crossed the 1 million mark in U.S. So, assuming Drake does manage to beat Bey, then congrats to Drake! Well done. Let’s start with the latter of those two statements: Views probably (maybe?) will debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, because Drake is a popular artist, because Views has been given a crazily elaborate and wildly expensive promotional push, and because the album’s chief competitor - Beyoncé’s Lemonade - will inevitably drop off from its own first-week numbers of 653,000 equivalent album units. is expected to bow at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 in North America. The album, including digital tracks and streaming album equivalents, has crossed the 1 million mark in U.S. OK so let’s break up that sentence real quick, because it includes two unrelated clauses that are cleverly fused to make it seem as though there is some correlation:ġ.

sales and nearly 1.2 million globally, and is expected to bow at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 in North America.

Now, Drake’s label, Republic Records, is relying on another unusual technicality to skew the numbers regarding the Toronto star’s new LP, Views - this time in Drake’s favo(u)r.

Last October, Drake’s “Hotline Bling” just missed topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart because of an unusual technicality: The viral clip was initially released exclusively on Apple Music, whose video-streaming data was not shared with Billboard.

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