Photo of Future & Drake performing in Atlanta in June 2015, courtesy Getty
What a Time to Be Alive indeed, if you're Drake and Future, whose newly released collaborative album appears set to debut at the top of the U.S. charts next week.
According to music industry forecasters, Alive could shift more than 450,000 units by the end of the sales week on Thursday (Sept. 24), securing the second-highest album debut of the year.
As we previously mentioned, Future's Dirty Sprite 2 and Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late both debuted at No. 1 earlier this year, with Drizzy's set coincidentally the top debut of 2015 at 530,000 album equivalent units.
Lana Del Rey's new album Honeymoon, which had previously been expected to debut at No. 1, will likely settle for second place with an anticipated 125,000 copies.