When you have as many committed supporters as almost any other artist in popular music, you can be pretty confident that at least a few hundred thousand of them are going to adore your new record. “ Views already a classic,” Drake claims on “Hype,” the fifth track off the monster 20-track project. In a way, he’s right, though “already” is the key word.
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Not surprisingly, the World Wide Web erupted in a flurry of excited and antsy posts from fans everywhere waiting to hear the first note of Views grace their ears on late Thursday night. However, to everyone’s surprise, the album officially dropped on Apple Music a few strikes before midnight on Thursday. On Thursday, April 28, OVO Sound Radio on Apple Music was expected to live stream the project in its entirety. Drake would shorten it to Views closer to the album release to make it less Toronto-centric. The build-up for the album has been bigger than any of his albums, thanks to the long delay between 2013’s Nothing Was The Same and 2016-his longest break between albums to date. In that time, Drake released many singles, including “Hotline Bling,” “Right Hand,”“Summer Sixteen,” “One Dance” and “Pop Style.”
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– Aubrey Drake GrahamĪfter almost three years of anticipation and anxiety, Toronto’s sweetheart Aubrey Drake Graham released Views, his fourth studio album this excludes 2015’s “mixtape” If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. Drake announced on Augthat the title of his next album would be Views From The 6. “I don’t want you to get it right away… Great music takes a little work.