A little over a month since its release, Drake’s Thank Me Later has officially gone platinum. As previously reported Thank Me Later went platinum in Canada its first week with over 100,000 units sold, but failed to reach Gold status in the U.S. after moving over 400,000 units. Now Drizzy can add his U.S. platinum plaque to the one he already acquired in Canada and announced his platinum status to fans saying,
Thank you to everyone who allowed us go platinum on a debut album. WOW
It might not of been in the first week like some folks thought would happen; but Drake’s debut album has surpassed the 1million mark. Congratulations.
Hits Daily Double tallys that 462,989 people purchased Drake’s album, Thank Me Later. As a result, the LP will enter the Billboard charts at number one as the highest selling debut this year. – RapRadar
So what do y’all think? Did you expect the album to do better first week, or do you think this is a good amount ?
On the release day of Thank Me Later, the Cookin’ Soul boys team up with Don Cannon for their latest mash up project.
Thanks Us Later is a new approach to song remixing. Not having the a capellas it is a complete new challenge. Cookin’ Soul got in the studio together with french top producer Spike Miller and electronic spanish producer VibaSound using real live instruments: guitars, bass, piano, strings and synths.
Tracklist + Download link after the jump… 
Tuesday June 15th marked the release date for Drake’s Thank Me Later album. 1 Love T.O. (T-Rexxx & Brock) was on hand to meet some of the die hard fans that waited outside of the downtown HMV for hours on end just to get a copy of the highly anticipated debut album.
Shout out to everybody that can out & showed love. Be sure to buy Thank Me Later & support Toronto’s very own Drizzy Drake!!!
The Drakeover kicked off on Tuesday with Drake’s in-store appearance at Best Buy in New York’s Union Square. Lines wrapped around the block as eager fans, some crying, waited to meet their idol on his long-awaited album release day.
It’s a benchmark in hip-hop that only two MCs have ever realized: selling 1 million album units during an opening release week.
Eminem achieved the feat — with his second and third albums, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show, respectively — and in 2008, Lil Wayne joined the exclusive club as he pushed seven-digits worth of his sixth set, Tha Carter III, an act that cemented his ascent to super-stardom.
Kanye West came close with his third collection, Graduation, but stalled just short of the platinum plateau. And 50 Cent is the only debuting rapper who ever came anywhere near the mark when he pushed more than 800,000 copies of Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
Now, on the verge of releasing his major label debut, Thank Me Later, many are wondering whether Drake — last year’s mixtape wunderkind — can deliver on all of the hype to become only the third rapper to break the one-million mark in first week sales.
I always said that his setup was so impeccable, so crazy, that I just thought he would get really close to 1 million,” Vibe magazine editor-in-chief Jermaine Hall told MTV News. “The one thing he needed was that big record and I don’t think he was able to get his ‘Lollipop’ out the gate,” he said referring to Wayne’s breakout Carter III single. “But still, I think the setup is incredible and I expect him to sell 500,000 to 600,000 the first week.
