ARTICLE: Drake – "Let's Thank Him Now" (By Paul Grein)
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Yahoo! Music’s Paul Grein puts Drake’s first week TML sales into historical perspective.
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 Eminem’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).
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