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Drake's "Views" album sold another 18,000 albums and 161,000
songs and was streamed more than 86 million times in the past
week, totaling 117,000 overall album units, according to figures
from Nielsen SoundScan.
"Views" is only the 10th album to clock 10 weeks, consecutive or
non-consecutive, at No. 1 on the album chart in the past 20
years, according to Billboard.
The album's sales have been driven predominately by streams from
online music platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.
The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales,
song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity
(1,500 streams equal one album).
Other artists to achieve 10 weeks at the top include Adele with
her blockbuster 2011 album hit "21," which spent 24
non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, as well as the
soundtracks to 1998's "Titanic" and 2014's "Frozen."
"Views" was pushed to No. 2 last week when Blink 182 took the
top spot on the album chart with their latest record
"California." The alt-rockers' album dropped to No. 3 this week
on the chart.
Other new entries on the top ten of the Billboard 200 album
chart this week includes rapper Schoolboy Q at No. 2 with "Blank
Face LP," rockers Chevelle at No. 8 with "North Corridor" and
alt-rock band Switchfoot at No. 10 with "Where the Light Shines
Through."
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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