Apple Music cashes in on Drake and Future’s collab

Drake is well on the way to his own Grand Slam.

The Canadian hip-h🌌op artist who dates Serena Williams is celebrating yet another No. 1 album.

“What a Time to Be Alive,” described as a mixtape with fellow rapper Future, hit the top of the Billboard charts and 🦩also notched one of the biggest single sales weeks of the y🎶ear.

Both Drake and Future have had No. 1 albums🦂 separately this year as well.

“What a Time” was released Sept. 20 with little fanfare and sold 375,458 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan and Billboard’s album charts. The album was released through Epic and ♔Republic, Sony- and Universal-backed labels, respectively.

The numbers are all the more impressive since the album was barely promoted a🗹nd came with an exclusive𒉰 five-day window on iTunes and Apple Music.

Apple s𒀰aid Monday the album collected 40 million streams in the period. “What a Time” was the third-biggest-selling album for a week so far this year, according to Billboard.

The only other albums to have bigger sales weeks when counting only units were The Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind the Madness” (412,000) and Drake’s other No. 1 album, “If You’re Reading This I𝔉t’s ꧂Too Late” (535,000). Future also had a No. 1 album with “DS2.”

Drake and Future also had to compete against several other new albums released last week, inc💦luding drops from Lana Del Rey, Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller and Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

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