Drake photographed on Feb. 12, 2016 in Toronto. (Photo : Getty Images/ VAUGHN RIDLEY)
Canadian artist Drake held off rapper Gucci Mane for a 12th non-consecutive week at the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart by maintaining position 1 on Monday.
Drake's "Views" maintained the first position on the Billboard 200 with 16,000 albums and 152,000 songs sold. The album was streamed 80 million times in the week ending July 28 and according to Nielsen Music, the figures were equivalent to another 85,000 equivalent units (down by 5 percent).
Trailing Drake on the latest Billboard 200 at No. 2 is Gucci Manes', "Everybody Looking". The album is his latest one with a total of 68,000 album units (of which, 43,000 are in traditional album sales), Reuters reported. It is the highest rank ever for the rap artist, who ranked at position 4 in 2010 with his album "The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted."
As "Views" exceeds the 11 weeks at the top racked up by Taylor Swift's 1989 in late 2014 and in early 2015, the rapper's album now got the most weeks at No. 1 since 2014, at a time when the "Frozen" soundtrack collected 13 frames at No. 1.
According to Billboard, the Billboard 200 chart ranks weeks' most popular albums in the United States based on multi-metric consumption. This includes tallying the units from album sales, song sales (20 songs equal one album) and streaming equivalent (1,500 streams equal one album). The new Aug. 13-dated chart with "Views" on top will be made available to Billboard's websites in full.
Since Adele's "21" album, "Views" has received the most weeks at position 1 for an album by an artist, this is as opposed to a soundtrack. The "21" album ruled for 24 weeks in 2011 and 2012. Billy Ray Cyrus' album, "Some Gave All" was the last male artist back in 1992 to spend more than 12 weeks at the No. 1 position.
The album, "Everybody Looking" is Gucci Mane's first studio album in five years since 2011 when his "The Return of Mr. Zone 6" album was recorded shortly after his release from prison in May. It is also the seventh album to appear at No. 2 behind Drake's "Views".
On the Digital Songs chart, which computes online song purchases and sales, "Cold Water" song by Major Lazer was No. 1 with about 169,000 copies sold. Last week's highest-selling song, Katy Perry's "Rise" dropped to No. 14 this week.
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