Drake's "VIEWS" Gains Most No. 1 Weeks Since Adele's "21"
Drake's VIEWS, released at the end of April, is still the No. 1 album in the US. The album has earned its 12th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. After going No. 1 for its first nine weeks of release, VIEWS briefly gave up the top spot to Blink-182's California three weeks ago. Now back at No. 1 for a third straight week, VIEWS beat out the new entry from Gucci Mane, Everybody Looking, which debuted at 4 and is his first album in five years.
With 12 weeks at No. 1, VIEWS has now spent more weeks at the top than Taylor Swift's 2014 album 1989. VIEWS has achieved the most weeks at No. 1 since the "Frozen" soundtrack accumulated 13 chart-topping weeks in 2014. Not including soundtracks, the last artist to better Drake's total weeks at No. 1 was Adele, whose 21 album sat at No. 1 for a total of 24 weeks in 2011-2012.
