Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR’s “$$$4U” Goes Platinum

After years of many one-off collaborations on each other’s initiatives, Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR lastly bought right here collectively for a full listening experience. On Valentine’s Day, 2025, the Canadian musicians put out $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, a 21-song behemoth mixing Toronto-tinged R&B and some hip-hop.

It went onto change into a enterprise success, selling 246,000 fashions first week. Considering the dearth of dominance on the charts by the rap model, that may be a highly effective feat although Drake’s accomplished considerably higher. That was enough to debut at main, and it’ll mark PND’s first and Drizzy’s 14th. That put him in a tie with Jay-Z for basically essentially the most chart-topping rap information on the Scorching 200.

To at the moment, it stays on the itemizing, sitting at twenty eighth.

Common, the enterprise has been holding up inside the 9 months it has been within the market. Due to this, it’s gone licensed platinum by the RIAA. It achieved that standing proper now the reality is, primarily based on their website. That signifies that album has purchased an entire of 1 million fashions within the USA.

However it isn’t merely the album that’s getting a plaque this week. A handful of tracks are receiving their first certifications or have seen a bump.

“NOKIA,” the enterprise’s largest hit, is now two events platinum. After that six tracks are literally gold. Those that have moved 500,000 fashions embrace “CN TOWER,” “SOMEBODY LOVES ME,” “DIE TRYING,” “GIMMME A HUG,” “SOMETHING ABOUT YOU,” and “SPIDER-MAN SUPERMAN.”

It’s a terrific achievement for Drake and PND, nonetheless significantly for the earlier, who’s had a tricky couple of weeks. He’s going via two class movement lawsuits alongside Adin Ross and Stake for alleged predatory taking part in. Moreover, whereas not a defendant, he is in focus in Spotify’s alleged botting scandal, spearheaded by Snoop Dogg‘s cousin, RBX.

Furthermore, on a a lot much less crucial phrase, The Boy solely obtained one Grammy nomination for subsequent yr. The aforementioned “SOMEBODY LOVES ME” is up for Best Melodic Rap Effectivity. It’s acquired sturdy opponents from “luther,” “WeMaj,” “Proud Of Me,” and “Wholeheartedly.”