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Drake has achieved thirteen number-one albums on the Billboard 200. [2] Billboard (Drake and Billboard are both part of UMG) hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade" [3] and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time. [2] RIAA ranks him as the best top-selling digital artist of all time with 244 million in the United States. [4]
Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), known mononymously as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and actor.Named one of the greatest rappers of all time by Billboard, he is credited with popularizing R&B sensibilities in hip-hop music.
[1] [2] For example, in the update of the certification for Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) by the Eagles in August 2018, the album was certified 38× Platinum (increasing from the previous 29× Platinum certification in 2006) based on the new criteria, making it then the album with the highest certification in the United States. [3]
It spent a 13 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and became Drake's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart. All 20 songs from the album charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The album received lukewarm reviews from critics, many of whom found it to be an overlong retread of Drake's previous work. Despite this, it became ...
Though Drake had sold relatively few albums by his death in 1974, [21] his work began to attract critical and commercial attention by the end of the 1980s. A 1989 retrospective assessment of Five Leaves Left by Len Brown in NME awarded the album 9/10 and stated that it "remains a masterpiece of English melancholy; a moving work that first revealed Drake's remarkable talent to communicate his ...
All four of the album's singles became top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Find Your Love" reaching number five. Reviews of Thank Me Later were generally positive, with critics applauding Drake's personal themes and drawing musical comparisons to the works of Kid Cudi and West, particularly the latter's 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak. It ...
Drake and the album's producer Noah "40" Shebib claimed the statement to be false. [13] [10] [11] [12] Several producers were revealed to be working with Drake on Take Care other than Noah "40" Shebib (who is the main producer of the album), including T-Minus, [14] the xx's Jamie Smith [15] and Boi-1da (who is a long-time Drake collaborator). [16]
Drake has achieved thirteen number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] Billboard hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade" [3] and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time. [2] RIAA ranks him as the best top-selling digital artist of all time with 244 million in the United States. [4]