Drake Views Reaches 520 Weeks

Drake’s Views reached 520 weeks on the Billboard 200 back in May 2026, becoming his third album to spend a full decade on the chart. The milestone became official on May 12, 2026, when Views climbed back into the top 40 at No. 36, ten years after it first topped the chart. Six months on, the record is worth revisiting, because the catalogue behind it has not slowed down since.

Forbes chart reporter Hugh McIntyre reported the milestone in May, and put the plain version of it:

“As of this frame, Views reaches 520 weeks on the Billboard 200. That’s a decade as one of the 200 most-consumed albums in the United States.”

Drake Views 520 Weeks Joins Two Earlier Landmarks

Views was the third Drake album to reach the decade mark, and the second to do it in a single month. Nothing Was the Same became his second decade album in late April 2026. Ahead of both is Take Care, his longest-charting album, which stood at 687 weeks on the chart at the time of the Views milestone, a total the Forbes report notes makes it one of the longest-charting albums of all time, and a record iimiTV has already walked through in its Take Care album deep dive. As The Source noted when the milestone landed, Drake stands alone in this regard: the first artist in Billboard 200 history with three albums that have each spent ten years on the chart, passing the two Michael Jackson held.

The depth underneath the milestone is just as unusual, and it is still visible on the current chart. On the Billboard 200 reported at the end of October 2026, eleven Drake albums sit on the chart at the same time: HABIBTI at No. 7, ICEMAN at No. 12, Take Care at No. 18, and Views itself still at No. 40, with Certified Lover Boy, Thank Me Later, Scorpion, For All The Dogs, Nothing Was the Same, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U and More Life all holding places further down. One artist filling eleven slots on the flagship albums chart, with three of those albums a decade old or older, is the catalogue picture in a single frame.

The Album That Ruled For 13 Weeks

The longevity starts from an unusually high peak. Views arrived in the spring of 2016 and opened atop the Billboard 200 in May with just over one million equivalent units. It went on to rule the chart for 13 weeks in total, still his longest run at No. 1 by a wide margin: his next longest-running chart-toppers, Certified Lover Boy and If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, managed five weeks each, less than half the Views total combined. At the time of the milestone, the album counted among his 14 Billboard 200 number ones.

The singles did their share of the carrying. “One Dance,” featuring Wizkid and Kyla, became his first Hot 100 number one as a lead artist and Billboard’s Song of the Summer for 2016, and iimiTV broke the record down in its One Dance lyrics and meaning explainer. “Hotline Bling,” carried on the album as a bonus track after reaching No. 2 on the Hot 100 and earning a diamond certification, supplied the era’s defining visual: the Director X video embedded above, filmed in Toronto, has passed two billion views on YouTube. An album whose two biggest songs are still that present in the culture has a floor under its streaming that most catalogue titles never get.

Why Views Keeps Charting

The Forbes report points at the mechanism honestly. The Billboard 200 counted only sales for most of its history, and now counts streaming activity as well, a change that rewards exactly the kind of catalogue Drake has built: albums listeners keep playing in full, years after release. A 2016 album still sitting inside the top 40 of the Billboard 200 in the autumn of 2026 is not nostalgia doing the work. It is weekly listening, measured.

The timing closes the argument neatly. This week Apple Music named Drake its Best Rapper of 2026 for his new albums, a story iimiTV covered on Tuesday. The honour is about the present tense: three new albums in one weekend. The 520 weeks, reached back in May, are about the back catalogue compounding quietly underneath it, three albums deep at a decade each, and on the evidence of the current chart, that catalogue is not finished yet.