Free Thank Me Later Ringtone by Drake
Thank Me Later is the debut studio album of Canadian recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham better known by his stage name Drake (born on October 24, 1986). In June 2009, Drake signed a recording contract with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment. In November 2009, Lil Wayne released a statement announcing that Drake’s first studio album, Thank Me Later, had been completed. The song was released on June 15, 2010, on Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records. Production for the album took place at various recording studios during 2009 to 2010 and was mostly produced by longtime collaborators Noah “40″ Shebib and Boi-1da, and also featured contributions from Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, The-Dream and Kanye West, among others. Thank Me Later features a predominantly sparse, downbeat production and contains subjective lyrics concerning themes of fame, self-examination, and love. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 447,000 copies. It attained the third-highest first-week sales of 2010 in the United States. It also entered at number one on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums chart. In its second week, the album dropped to number two on the Billboard 200 and sold 157,000 copies. It remained at number two and sold 105,000 copies in its third week on the chart. In its fourth week, the album sold 74,000 copies at the same chart position. On July 20, 2010, Thank Me Later was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments and sales in excess of one million copies in the United States. As of January 9, 2011, the album had sold 1,279,500 copies in the United States. In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Top 100 Albums chart, selling 31,000 copies in its first week. By the end of its debut week, Thank Me Later had shipped 100,000 copies in Canada and received platinum certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association for shipment in excess of 80,000 copies.
