Drake has reached a Billboard 200 milestone, even surpassing the late Michael Jackson.
Despite the popularity of the Michael biopic, Drizzy made chart history as the artist with the most albums that have spent 10 years on the Billboard 200. Included in the record-breaking roster are his consecutive 2010s albums Take Care, Nothing Was the Same and Views, which were released 2011, 2013 and 2016, respectively. The 5-time Grammy winner is now the first artist in history to achieve the feat.
While Billboard has named Jackson as the 5th artist with a top 10 album on the chart in every decade since 1970, only one of his studio albums has spent a decade on the Billboard 200, his seminal 1982 album Thriller.
Drake has referenced his popularity being similar to the King of Pop multiple times in his material, and even featured Jackson’s posthumous vocals on Scorpion track “Don’t Matter to Me.” The 6 God also compared his Billboard number-one status to MJ on his J. Cole collaboration “First Person Shooter,” where he rapped, “I'm one away from Michael/N***a, beat it.” The rapper is tied with Jackson with 13 number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100, but that may change in the coming weeks.
Drake’s achievement brings his fans just three days closer to the intended release of his 9th studio album, Iceman, which he’ll celebrate in a livestream the night before. After being filmed in Toronto, a new music video by the rapper-singer is also expected to drop this week.
