Drake's Surprise Album Heading for No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield | February 13, 2015 1:45 PM EST
'If You're Reading This…' could sell 400,000 copies by Sunday night.
Drake's surprise album If You're Reading This It's Too Late is aiming to become his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Industry forecasters expect the set -- which was released late in the evening on Feb. 12 through Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records -- to easily bow atop next week's Billboard 200. While it's still a bit early to get a proper projection on what it might sell through the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Feb. 15, sources have floated figures as high as 400,000. That would be the largest sales week for a rap album since November of 2013, when Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 bowed at No. 1 with 792,000 sold (according to Nielsen Music) in its first week.
