Drake's first full-length album, Thank Me Later, enters the Billboard 200 at #1, with first-week sales of 447,000. This constitutes one of the biggest openings ever for the debut album by a rap artist. It's bigger than Enimen's first week with The Slim Shady LP in February 1999 (283,000). It's even bigger than Kanye West's first week with The College Dropout in February 2004 (441,000). And today's sales climate is less favorable now than it was back then (to put it mildly).Thank Me Later rang up third biggest one-week sales tally of 2010, trailing only Sade's Soldier Of Love (502,000) and Lady Antebellum's Need You Now (481,000).
But Drake shouldn't get too comfortable in the top spot. Eminem's Recovery is expected to debut at #1 next week with sales well above 500,000.
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