Drake's 'Views' Ties Adele's '25' with 10 Weeks at No. 1

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A week after Blink-182's new album California dethroned Drake's Views from the No. 1 spot on the charts, the latter is back on top, for a staggering 10th week.

While Blink's post-Tom DeLonge record was their first chart-topper in 15 years, Drake's achievement makes him only the 10th artist in the last 20 years whose album has spent 10 weeks or more in the top spot, tying Adele's 2015 album 25 and the Backstreet Boys' 1999 entry Millennium

According to Nielsen Music, Views moved 92,000 album equivalent units in the week ending July 14, including streaming, putting its total of pure album sales now at 1.34 million, the most of any album released this year.

Views has also passed Usher's 2004 record Confessions' nine-week run to earn the most weeks at No. 1 since October 1992, when Billy Ray Cyrus' Some Gave All finished with 17 weeks at the top. 

The top 10 also includes ScHoolboy's new LP Blank Face, the top-selling album of the week with 74,000 units (52,000 pure sales), at No. 2, and Switchfoot's Where the Light Shines Through rounding out the list at No. 10 with 29,000 units (27,000 pure sales).

Should Views remain No. 1 another week, it would tie Taylor Swift's 2014 set 1989 as well as her 2008 release Fearless. Adele's juggernaut 21 is still far ahead, with 24 weeks atop the U.S. charts.