{"id":11564,"date":"2011-11-28T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11564"},"modified":"2011-11-28T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T21:10:59","slug":"drakes-take-care-blasts-onto-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11564","title":{"rendered":"Drake&#8217;s &#8216;Take Care&#8217; Blasts Onto Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, <strong>Drake<\/strong> nets the third-largest sales week of 2011 for an album, as <em>&#8220;Take Care<\/em>&#8221; debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 631,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.<\/p>\n<p>While that&#8217;s a slightly smaller number than initially expected, it&#8217;s nothing to scoff at. Last Friday, industry sources pegged the set&#8217;s start around 675,000 to 700,000.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the only two sets to sell more in a week this year were <strong>Lady Gaga&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;<em>Born This Way<\/em>&#8221; debut (1.1 million) and <strong>Lil Wayne&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;Tha Carter IV&#8221; start (964,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, Drake nets the third-largest sales week of 2011 for an album, as &#8220;Take Care&#8221; debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 631,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan. While that&#8217;s a slightly smaller number than initially expected, it&#8217;s nothing to scoff at. Last Friday, industry sources pegged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}