Drake tops album chart, scores 100th Top 100 single

What a time to be Drake.

Not only has the Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and actor vaulted to the top of the Billboard 200 Albums chart with his surprise collaboration with fellow rapper Future, “What a Time to Be Alive,” Drake also has scored his 100th Top 100 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Which song? That’s harder to say, because eight tracks from “What a Time to Be Alive” simultaneously entered the Hot 100 this week, making him only the fourth artist in history to reach that tally.

The others are the “Glee” cast, which placed a staggering 207 songs within the Top 100, New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne with 127 and Elvis Presley with 108 — although it’s worth noting that Presley had already scored several hits before Billboard instituted the Hot 100 in 1958.

Billboard notes that of Drake’s Top 100 singles, 14 have made it into the Top 10.

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Meanwhile, “What a Time to Be Alive” shot to No. 1 with equivalent album sales total of 375,000 in its first week of release, which came just a day after the project was announced and initially was available exclusively from Apple Music and the iTunes store.

It’s Drake’s second chart-topping album of 2015, following “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” which sold 535,000 copies out of the gate. The total marked the highest first-week figure of the year.

The Weeknd’s “Beauty and the Madness” is the only other album of 2015 with a higher first-week sales figure than “What a Time to Be Alive,” having sold 412,000 on Billboard’s new multi-metric chart, which factors in track- and streaming-equivalent album sales as well as traditional physical and download album sales.

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