The Reign Of Drake's "VIEWS" Ends At 9 No. 1 Weeks In A Row
The historic reign of VIEWS has come to an end. After nine consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Drake's latest album has finally relinquished the top spot. And it was dethroned by an unlikely suspect: the middle-aged alt-rock band Blink-182, whose new album, California, has become the group's second No. 1, the last one being 2001's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
The nine weeks that VIEWS spent at the top ranks as the third-most time at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart for all hip-hop albums. The two albums that are ahead of VIEWS were both released in 1990 -- Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme and MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em, which attained 16 and 21 weeks at No. 1, respectively. With VIEWS, Drake has spent more time at No. 1 than any male artist in over 10 years, when Usher's Confessions was able to top the charts for nine (nonconsecutive) weeks in 2004.
