2016-07-20

Rapper Drake reclaimed the top spot on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart on Monday for a 10th week, joining a small group of artists to have achieved the same feat in recent years.

Drake's "Views" album sold another 18,000 albums and 161,000 songs and was streamed more than 86 million times in the past week, totalling 117,000 overall album units, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

According to Billboard "Views" is only the 10th album to clock 10 weeks, consecutive or non-consecutive, at No. 1 on the album chart in the past 20 years.

The album's sales have been driven predominately by streams from online music platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.

The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales, song sales and streaming activity.
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