At the end of October 2020, Drake posted an Instagram Story that showed his right knee in a brace. “I was planning to release my album this month, but between surgery and rehab, my energy has been dedicated to recovery,” he posted to his Instagram story. The teaser ended with the album’s supposed release date – January 2021.Ī post shared by champagnepapi the only thing Drake would drop in January is bad news. The teaser ended with a drone flying over an arena, revealing the album’s initials emblazed across the top. Then, Drake recreated the artwork from Take Care, Nothing Was The Same, and the then-recently Dark Lane Demo Tapes. The video began with a little boy recreating the artwork to his So Far Gone, Drake’s breakout mixtape. The preview was rife with scenes from Drake’s past.
On October 24 - Drake’s 34th birthday - he released a short visual teaser for the new album. What Is Drake New Album Called? Drake is your ‘certified lover boy.’ (Shutterstock)ĭrake’s next album will be called Certified Lover Boy. In October, Drake announced the title of the upcoming album and that it was going to arrive in January 2021. Drake released “ Laugh Now Cry Later,” his collab with Lil Durk (which gave Drake his second Billboard Hot 100 No. When Drake packaged “Toosie Slide” into the DARK LANE DEMO TAPES release in April 2020, Drake dropped this nugget of knowledge: “DARK LANE DEMO TAPES out everywhere at midnight…also my 6th STUDIO ALBUM DROPPING SUMMER 2020!!! Lucky number 6.”Ī post shared by champagnepapi you are reading this, then you know it’s too late and that Drake missed that deadline. 1 with “Toosie Slide,” a song that many critics thought was both a calculating business move (“he’s made a song to push a dance designed for TikTok virality,” wrote Pitchfork, while NPR called it “a bit of trivial fun that will probably become an inescapable hit on the strength of its marketing and its catchy chorus.” Commercially, it made the Canadian rapper the first male artist to debut three songs at the top Billboardspot and his seventh overall No.
2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent eight weeks in that position while Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” ruled the chart.
So, how did we get here? Drake had started 2020 on the right foot by teaming up with Future for “Life Is Good,” a release from Future’s High Off Life album. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the fate of this then-unnamed and unconfirmed album was up in the air. 3, 2021.Ī post shared by champagnepapi was speculation that Drake would drop a new album in 2020 at the start of the year. Update: Certified Lover Boy will be officially released on Sept. When Will Drake New Album Be Released? Drake in concert (Shutterstock) So, there’s clearly an audience that wants a new Drake Album. Even Drake’s mixtapes make money, with If Your Reading This It’s Too Late, What a Time to Be Alive, and More Life all getting certified Platinum (or more) by the RIAA. 2018’s Scorpion went Platinum five times, despite arriving to mixed reviews (it currently has a score of 67 on Metacritic, though none of Drake’s albums have a higher score than Nothing Was The Same’s 79). In between Take Care and Views, Drake dropped 2013’s Nothing Was The Same, an album currently certified 4x Platinum. 2011’s Take Care (with singles “Headlines,” “Make Me Proud,” “The Motto” and the title track team-up with Rihanna) went platinum six times, a feat he would match five years later with 2016’s Views (“Hotline Bling,” “Pop Style,” and another collab with Rihanna, “Too Good.”) It’s currently certified Platinum by the RIAA, which remarkably is his lowest-selling album to date. This debut project topped both the charts in the United States and in his homeland of Canada. June 2021 will mark eleven years since Drake released his first studio album, Thank Me Later.