Drake Predicted to Have Career-Best Sales Week With ‘Views’

Drake’s new VIEWS album is set for huge debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Industry forecasters suggest that Drake’s latest effort could sell more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending May 5. The project was released exclusively for sale through the iTunes Store and to stream via Apple Music on April 29 by Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records.

Sources at Republic Records say that Views earned over 630,000 equivalent units in its first day at Apple Music and iTunes combined.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

His current high was logged when Nothing Was the Same debuted at No. 1 with 658,000 sold in its first week, according to Nielsen Music.