Joe Budden is Impressed With Drake's First Week Numbers

February 22, 2025

Before Drake dropped his collab album with PARTYNEXTDOOR, Joe Budden speculated it wouldn't do much more than 100K first week.

It ended up doing 249K.

Budden acknowledged that was a good number for a collab album that wasn't promoted by Drake's label UMG, who Drizzy is currently suing for defamation.

Joe Budden podcast look flabbergasted and speechless after seeing Drake and Partynextdoor sell 250,000 first week while he was being suppressed by the machine (UMG Spotify and Apple) pic.twitter.com/vBl8SPj4ms

— Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) February 22, 2025

"250 is respectable," Budden said.  "Especially on a collab album."

The crew then discussed how much they think the next Drake solo album will do.  They settled on 400K plus.

Kendrick Lamar's last album, GNX ,did 319K first week.

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