Don’t you hate when artists drop albums out of NOWHERE!? Don’t you hate it more when the artist who drops the album is one of your FAVORITE artist’s? Well that’s exactly what Drake did on Feb. 12, but, how can any of us get upset? It’s Drake for crying out loud! I know the word “bae” doesn’t exist, but can we please add it to the dictionary just so I can call Drake “bae” without Microsoft judging me with the red underlining indicating that “bae” is again NOT a word? Anyways, Drake, AKA “bae”, dropped a new album called If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. His most recent album, Nothing Was the Same, came out on Sep. 19 2013, which was only a little over a year ago. And to all the die hard Drake fans, Drake dropping an album this soon is uncommon. It originally was supposed to be a free album but Cash Money, Drake’s record label, did not agree with those terms. Cash Money obviously made the right choice for Drake because his sudden album has been a huge success.
Even though If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is considered a mixtape, the album sold almost 500,000 copies in the first week. A rap album hasn’t sold this many copies the first week since Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP 2. Drake’s album has the second biggest amount of sales of this year behind Taylor Swift’s 1989 album. “Bae” (Drake) is not only Billboard’s number one of top 200, but “bae” is also the second rapper to have his fourth debut album on the Billboard’s top 200. And he did all of this without ANY advertising OR physical copies.
Drake/ “bae” will hopefully drop an official album called Views From the 6 later. If his upcoming album is as good and successful as the current album, the world just might explode.
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