Drake Crushes Kanye West for 2021’s Biggest Album Debut, and He Owns the Top 10 Songs, Too

variety.com:

Chris Willman Music WriterIn the end, the battle for supremacy in 2021’s long-awaited superstar hip-hop premieres wasn’t that close.

Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” is the top-debuting album of the year so far, bowing with 595,300 album-equivalent units. That figure handily beats the 313,000 album units Kanye West’s “Donda” claimed when it premiered on the chart last week, setting its own record for the year to date that was shortly to be toppled.Drake also accomplished the very rare feat of landing all of the 10 songs on the Rolling Stone songs chart.

In the previous chart week, West had managed to land five of the top 10 song spots.If rivalries could be put aside, though, West would have little to complain about, as “Donda” continues to.