Dubbed a mixtape by the 28-year-old Toronto rapper, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Latewas released digitally on iTunes, set sell more than 500,000 copies according to Billboard. Industry sources project the album could go well over the 500,000 mark by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Feb. 15.
Released through Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, the mixtape which features Lil’ Wayne, Travi$ Scott and PARTYNEXTDOOR will be Drake’s fourth consecutive No. 1 album. It will easily become the highest-selling sales week of 2015, and second-highest dating back to last year, only behind Taylor Swift’s 1989 LP which sold 1.287 million copies in November 2014.
The final total will be remarkable as If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late dropped on a Thursday, giving it only four days of sales compared to Taylor Swift’s 1989, which had a full sales week when it dropped on the standard Tuesday.
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