Drake’s “Take Care” has now spent 9 years on Billboard 200.
Drake continues to earn more chart accolades to show why he was named Billboard’s Artist of the Decade. The Toronto rap star’s second studio album “Take Care” has now spent a full 9 years on Billboard 200. It is now the ninth studio album, and 16th overall album to achieve this milestone.
.@Drake‘s ‘Take Care’ has now spent 9 full years on the Billboard 200. It becomes the ninth studio album to reach this milestone.
— chart data (@chartdata) February 27, 2022
Drake’s “Take Care” now joins Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid Mad City” as the only hip hop studio albums in history to do this. In the overall list, Eminem’s compilation album “Curtain Call: The Hits” recently became the first hip-hop album to spent an entire decade on the Billboard 200 chart.
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Drake’s “Take Care” has now spent 9 whole YEARS charting on Billboard. It joins “GKMC” as the only hip hop studio albums in history to do so.
2 of the greatest albums of a generation. 2 of the greatest artists of a generation. You love to see them win! ❤️
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) February 28, 2022
Despite leaking nine days before its official release, Take Care debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has now been certified six-times platinum. Drizzy’s first GRAMMY triumph came with the 18-track album, which won Best Rap Album and was hailed as one of the best projects of the decade by various magazines.
“Take Care” was released on November 15, 2011, through Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records. The album features guest appearances from The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Andre 3000 and more.
It is just 18 weeks behind Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 album ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City,’ which is remains the longest-charting hip-hop album in history. Drake set another Billboard record earlier this year when he became the first artist ever to have three singles debut in the top three slots.
The tracks were part of the ‘Scary Hours 2’ EP, which came out before September’s ‘Certified Lover Boy.’ The latter album immediately established Drake as the only act in Billboard history, with The Beatles, to have dominated the top five positions in a single week.
Drake’s second number-one album, Take Care, opened at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 631,000 copies in its first week. In its first week, the album also topped the Billboard Rap Albums and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album platinum on January 31, 2012, for one million copies sold in the United States. The album had sold 2,260,000 copies in the United States as of August 2015, according to Nielsen Music. The album was certified six times platinum in the United States on September 27, 2019, for total sales and album-equivalent units of over six million copies.
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