Drake has reclaimed the top spot on the charts with his collaborative album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U alongside PartyNextDoor, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. This marks Drake’s 14th No. 1 album, with the record pulling in an impressive 287.04 million first-week streams and 25,000 album sales, according to Luminate.
The album ousted Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, which had previously surged to the top after Lamar’s highly praised Super Bowl halftime performance. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U represents Drake’s first No. 1 album since the public escalation of his rap feud with Lamar, which reached a boiling point last year. The conflict saw Lamar’s song “Not Like Us” become a hit, later sweeping the Grammys.
While Drake’s ongoing legal battle with Universal Music Group over defamation continues, $ome $exy $ongs offers a shift in his artistic direction, with Drake declaring in one track, “Fuck a rap beef, I’m tryna get the party lit.” For PartyNextDoor, this album marks his highest-charting debut to date, surpassing his previous top album PartyNextDoor 3, which peaked at No. 3 in 2016.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet landed at No. 2, while GNX slipped to No. 3, SZA’s SOS held steady at No. 4, and Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos rounded out the top five.
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