Drake’sFor All The Dogs has reclaimed the top spot on the Billboard 200 thanks to a boost from Scary Hours 3.
The 6 God packaged the six-song EP as the deluxe edition to For All the Dogs earlier this month, helping the album surge from No. 4 to No. 1 on this week’s chart.
According to Billboard, For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition — as the expanded project appears on streaming services — earned 145,000 album-equivalent units over the last week, beating out Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (138,000) and Dolly Parton’s Rockstar (128,000).
Per Chart Data, Drake’s eighth studio album has now surpassed 1 million units in the U.S., making it eligible for platinum certification (although the RIAA has yet to issue a plaque).
It previously debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last month with 402,000 equivalent album units in its first week, putting Drizzy just one behind JAY-Z‘s record of the rapper with the most No. 1 albums (14).
Shortly after the release of Scary Hours 3 on November 17, Drake released the instrumental version — but with a twist. In addition to making them available on streaming platforms, the 6 God made fans navigate various “rooms” in his Toronto mansion on his website drakerelated.com to download each track.
Prior to its release, he issued a challenge to his rap peers to bring their best bars over the beats, which were produced by The Alchemist, Conductor Williams, Ovrkast and more.
“Dropping the instrumentals this week I wanna hear who’s barring up,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories next to a graphic of the twin fairies that appear on his Scary Hours 3 cover.
Fabolous, who never shies away from a freestyle, quickly accepted Drake’s challenge by rapping over the Vinylz and Boi-1da-produced “Evil Ways.”
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“New truck but I been driven/ Pull up and turn your Friendsgiving to a Benzgiving/ Told my bitch what is givings, what has been given/ I gotta move in where we been livin’/ That Brooklyn boy ain’t gon’ play with them boys, that’s word to Ben Simmons,” the Brooklyn MC rhymed.
As for Drake, the accolades continue to pile up. The 37-year-old was nominated for a total of 14 awards at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards earlier this month and came home with five wins, sweeping the rap categories.
The 6 God won Top Rap Artist, Top Male Rap Artist, Top Rap Touring Artist, Top Rap Album for his joint album with 21 SavageHer Loss, and Top Rap Song, again for a 21 Savage collaboration with “Rich Flex.”
