Drake’s ‘ICEMAN’ Becomes His Longest-Leading No. 1 Album on R&B/Hip-Hop Chart

Drake sets a new personal milestone on Billboard’ s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as ICEMAN becomes his sole-longest leader among his 17 chart-toppers.

The album claims a 13th week at No.

1 on the chart dated Sept.

5, passing Take Care ’s dozen weeks in the top slot.

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1 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States for the Aug.

21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate.

Though it declined 6% compared to its performance the week before (Aug.

14-20), it retains a 10,000-unit gap ahead of its nearest competitor, Michael Jackson’s Thriller , at No.

2 with 31,000 units.

Through ICEMAN , Drake reshuffles his leaderboard for his album with the most weeks at No.

1.

His sophomore full-length, 2011’s Take Care , was his prior benchmark, with 12 weeks at the summit in 2011-12.

Notably, the ranking system for Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums has changed since Drake’s career debut: Before February 2017, ranks were determined solely by album sales, while it has since evolved into ranking via equivalent album units, a multimetric measure of album sales, streaming activity and an album’s track-sales activity into one figure.