Views Songwriting Credits by Drake

Views is the fourth official studio album by Drake, released in April 2016 on Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, produced by Noah '40' Shebib alongside Boi-1da, Vinylz, and others, and notable as the first album released simultaneously on Apple Music as an exclusive for two weeks before becoming broadly available, a partnership that was one of the first major streaming exclusivity deals and generated significant industry debate about platform strategy. Drake wrote or co-wrote all his own material; the album's lyrics address Toronto as a location with unusual specificity: the title is a reference to a view from the CN Tower, and the album's themes of loyalty, betrayal, and success are consistently mapped onto the city as both literal place and symbolic frame. 'One Dance' (with Wizkid and Kyla) spent ten weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Drake's first number-one single on the Hot 100 and one of the best-selling singles of 2016; 'Hotline Bling' had preceded the album and reached number two. Views debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 852,000 first-week units, the largest first-week sales of Drake's career to that point, and became the first album to accumulate one billion streams on Apple Music. Critical reception was more divided than for Take Care or Nothing Was the Same, with reviewers citing the album's length (20 tracks, 81 minutes) and tonal consistency as limiting factors.