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Thank Me Later is the debut studio album by Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on June 15, 2010, by Young Money Entertainment , Cash Money Records , and Universal Motown Records . Production for the album took place at various recording studios during 2009 to 2010 and was mostly produced by longtime collaborators 40 and Boi-1da .
Drake's fourth studio album Views was released in April 2016, once again debuting at number one in both the United States and Canada, while also debuting at number one in the United Kingdom, where it became his first number one album. The album achieved huge commercial success, becoming the most popular release of 2016 in the US.
Thank Me Later was released on June 15, 2010, [69] debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 with sales of over 447,000 copies in its first week. [70] Upon the album's release, 25,000 fans gathered at New York City's South Street Seaport for a free concert hosted by Drake and Hanson , which was later cancelled by the police after a near-riot ...
The song was written by Drake, Patrick Reynolds, Jeff Bhasker and Kanye West and produced by the latter two and No I.D. It serves as the second single from his debut album, Thank Me Later (2010), and was released to radio on April 28, 2010, and digital download on May 5, 2010. The song became a hit on June 17, 2010.
"Shut It Down" was originally planned to be released as the first single from Thank Me Later in late 2009, [4] but Drake ultimately chose "Over", a song produced by Boi-1da, producer of his previous singles "Best I Ever Had" and "Forever". [5] Drake chose to premiere the song on his hometown Toronto's radio station Flow 93.5. [6]
In August 2018, Drake was featured on Travis Scott's single, "Sicko Mode", which reached number one on the Hot 100 four months later, but he was not credited as a featured artist. He released his seventh mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes , in May 2020, which spawned his seventh Hot 100 number-one single, " Toosie Slide ".
"Best I Ever Had" is also included as a bonus track on Drake's debut studio album Thank Me Later in certain countries. It was released as the first single from the tape as a digital download on February 11, 2009, and later as the third single from the EP in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2010, as a double-A-side single with "Fancy".
So Far Gone was the reissued project from Drake's third mixtape that was released earlier, on February 13, 2009, and as a result of the mixtape's success, he created an EP that was re-released later, on September 15, 2009. The final track listing, however, cuts the seventeen-track mixtape to contain seven tracks for this reissued EP.