Five Burning Questions: Drake Makes Billboard Chart History With ‘Certified Lover Boy’

Another year, another series of Billboard chart records taken over by Aubrey “Drake” Graham. This week, his long-awaited new studio album Certified Lover Boy debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, with 613,000 equivalent album units moved — easily the highest first-week mark of 2021, nearly doubling the 309,000 moved last week by recent foe Kanye West with his Donda set.
However, it’s on the Billboard Hot 100 that Drake really makes his historic mark.