#DrizzySeason continues with another impressive achievement for America’s favorite singing rapper, Drake. The Toronto artist just bagged his first *ever* No.1 song with ‘One Dance,’ the catchy salsa-esque track featuring Wizkid and Kyla from Drake’s new album, VIEWS. Let me just repeat that again: Drake has topped the Billboard 100 for the first time in his entire career. American listeners are actually late to the game, as the UK and Drake’s home country already took ‘One Dance’ to the top spot last week.
Drake’s latest trophy comes from the success of VIEWS, which is absolutely decimating the sales charts right now. The album itself is also No.1 in the country and raked in an impressive 1.04 million album equivalents sold. That means VIEWS basically went platinum within one week. Even more astounding are the streaming numbers -- 245.1 million streams in the states within the first weekend, which is a new record. The previous holder? America’s other favorite Canadian singer, Justin Bieber. For context, Bieber only scored a miniscule 100 million streams for Purpose. Drake completely shattered the previous record.
It may seem surprising that Drake has just landed a No.1 song for the first time ever. It is, quite frankly. He’s shared the honor under friend/collaborator Rihanna’s name -- 2010’s ‘What’s My Name?’ and more recently, ‘Work’ -- but he’s never topped the charts on his own. It’s been an aspiration of his for quite some time. “If I get my first number one during the month of October it will be the biggest moment of my career to date (in my mind)," he wrote about ‘Hotline Bling.’ Unfortunately it could only make it to No. 2.
Patience is a virtue, they say. ‘One Dance’ is at the top and Drake now has the second most Hot 100 hits for a male artist in history, only trailing his friend and mentor Lil Wayne. ‘One Dance’ and VIEWS are only available on Apple Music for now, but will make the jump to Spotify and Tidal on May 13.
