Drake's Views returns to Official Albums Chart top spot for a second week
Drake is back at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.
Despite a midweek challenge from Beyoncé, Drake's Views has pipped Lemonade to the post by just under 800 copies. It is the second non-consecutive week at Number 1 for the Canadian's fourth studio album, and helps him score a singles and albums chart double for the second time.
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Now available on all streaming services, Views has broken Lemonade's record of most sales equivalent streams for a Number 1 album in a single week, amassing 12,000 in total. However, the highest ever one week total belongs to Justin Bieber's Number 2-peaking Purpose, which mustered 20,000 sales equivalent streams in its second week of release in November.
Beyoncé's Lemonade settles for this week's Number 2, up one place from last week and Norwegian DJ Kygo is this week's highest new entry at 3 with Cloud Nine. Last week's Number 1 from Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool is at Number 4 and the Top 5 is rounded out by Meghan Trainor's new album Thank You (5).
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New entries and high climbers
Prince's The Hits 1 rises nine places to this week's 11 while Justin Bieber's Purpose falls from the Top 10 for the first time after 26 weeks in the top flight (12).
Corinne Bailey Rae returns to the Official Albums Chart after six years away; her third studio album The Heart Speaks in Whispers is new at 14. Pierce the Veil are also a new entry, scoring their first Top 40 album with their fourth collection Misadventures (17).
Years & Years' Communion leaps four places to 20 while James Bay's Chaos and the Calm jumps five places after his Ivor Novello win (23). Foy Vance's Wild Swan marks his first Top 40 placing, new at 28.
Further down, Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo makes its debut at Number 30 following an Official Charts rule change which makes albums that are only available on streaming services chart eligible. New Order's reissue of their 2015 album Music Complete is the final new entry, making a mark at 32.
Finally, four albums slingshot back into the Top 40: Jack Savoretti's Written in Scars is up 8 (36); Ellie Goulding's Delirium rises four spots (38), Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balcony vaults 16 places (39) and Sia's 1000 Forms of Fear climbs 11 places (40).
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I Am A Stegosaurus
Drake > Beyonce. I'm glad Views beat Lemonade.
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Formation
At the moment, but Lemonade stays steady as Views is declining. I think, Lemonade will surpass Views sales sooner or later!
Brittney Avery
Beyonce is annoying...
You don't have to put the entire album on spotify....just the singles....otherwise your flopping....and getting on my nerves.
......Ugh..
No one cares about Tidal.
MusicStan_1997
How is she flopping? The album has been doing amazing and all the songs have also done quite well. Beyoncé has said in a previous interview that she doesn't like that nobody seems to care about albums anymore, artists care about getting as many No.1 singles as they can and fans only buy the hits or stream them. Beyoncé wants people to appreciate her albums in there entirety, the full body of work, not just a select amount of songs. And she's hardly going to put her new album on a streaming site that is a rival to her husbands streaming site.
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Formation
Yes, the sh-itdal streaming service ruined her! Actually her songs are doing well in the sales charts if you count out the streaming ! Streaming is preferred over sales, which is a huge joke!
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JK
Brittney Avery weak argument is the one that is flopping, and badly. Beyoncé is doing great and she knows it, just wants a little attention, poor thing