All pulled via wiki all albums between 2009 - 2012 / 2013 (Rocky)

Eminem - Recovery 2010 - The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 741,000 copies

B.o.B - The Adventures of Bobby Ray 2010 - The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 84,000 copies in its first week

Lil Wayne - I Am Not a Human Being 2010 debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 110,000 digital copies in its first week. / Rebirth 2010 debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first week sales of 176,000 copies.

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2010 debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 496,000 copies

The Throne - Watch The Throne 2011 - The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 436,000 copies in the first week, and broke the iTunes first week sales record at the time.

Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 2009 - It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 476,000 copies in its first week

Nicki - Pink Friday 2010 - debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 375,000 copies in its first week

TI - No Mercy 2010 - debuted and peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 159,000 copies in its first week

Wiz Khalifa - Deal or No Deal 2009 - Upon its release, the album sold 5,900 copies in its first week / Rolling Papers 2011 debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 197,000 copies in the United States

Mac Miller - Blue Slide Park 2010 - debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 144,000 copies in its first week.

Wale Attention Deficit 2009 - debuted at number 21 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 28,000 copies in its first week / Ambition 2011 - debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 164,000 copies in its first week

J. Cole - Cole World The Sideline Story 2011 - debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with 218,000 copies sold in the first week following its release

A$AP Rocky - Long. Live. ASAP 2013 - debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with 139,000 album-equivalent units and 139,000 copies in pure album sales in its first week

Kendrick - Section.80 2011 - In its first week, the album sold 5,000 copies in the United States and debuted at number 113 on the US Billboard 200, with minimal mainstream media promotion and coverage. Within a two-week period, the album sold a total of 9,000 copies in the United States / Good Kid MAAD City 2012 - The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 242,000 copies in its first week

Macklemore - The Heist 2012 - The album sold 78,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200.

Drake - Thank Me Later 2010 - debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 447,000 copies in the US / Take Care 2011 - debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 631,000 copies in its first week

Future - Pluto 2012 - debuting at number eight on the US Billboard 200, selling 41,000 copies in its first week.

Rick Ross - Teflon Don 2010 - debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 176,300 copies in its first week.

Drake was not THE biggest but come on.....

Em
Kanye
Jay
Drake
The Throne

Maybe not but they still today if they drop a album would do numbers

Gouged my eyes out after reading this, thanks.

Take Care solidified him there and NWTS cemented him imo

SFG hit in 09 and s*** hasn’t really let up since then

If he can keep this level of hype up until 2029 that would definitely be unprecedented

I mean it’s one thing to have a 20 year career but to dominate the way he has for 20 years hasn’t been done

I have more respect of Drake in recent years then when he started out

It’ll be interesting to hear what a 45-50yo Drake will sound like. If you look at pictures of him from ten years ago and look at him now, he’s aged quite a bit.

Op was crazy saying ‘08 but 2011 was where it started.

Yea, I think after 2011 it was more that the Ye/Wayne/Late 2000's Em Era was ending.

But after NWTS, that's when he started to really separate himself from his peers.

Truly genius artists of unmatched financial success I mean creative brilliance

Jay and Nas aren’t there anymore commercially

I love the King’s Disease albums though

Drake took what Pac did and made it better and did it smarter

I count Drake's run of dominance from 2009 because that's quite literally when it started. He's been the most dominant rapper amongst his peers since then. By 2010, the only rapper who was outselling him was Eminem and I'm not just talking about first week numbers. Carter 4 had the biggert debut week compared to Take Care but Take Care has outsold/out-charted that album BY FAR. By 2011, he was already the most consistent hitmaker in the rap game.

I'm definitely not counting his run from 2013 or 2014. That s*** started from 2009.

Idk about all that but okay

He will sound like whatever is popping at the time

Kanye west

As someone who was in HS in the early 2010’s and followed rap closely Drake was already compared to the top guys at an exceptionally early stage in his mainstream career. So OP isn’t wrong.

It started to become clear that Drake was in a league of his own in 2013 and by 2016 he’s in another stratosphere.

For the closest comparison we would need to go out of rap into pop with Michael’s 25 year solo career run (late 1970’s to early 2000s, longer if you count the Jackson 5) or Madonnas (1980’s to 2000s).

It’s wild HOW dominant Drake’s been though. Even the aforementioned artists had breaks in between albums. Drake hasn’t really given up much time for anyone else to jump in.

It’s complete dominance since 2016.

I mean hes not picking fistfights with gang bangers at the MGM so I gotta say hes at least a little smarter

It's funny how people still count Eminem out when MTBMB was still one of the best selling albums of 2020 regardless of genre and he's killing it in streaming while being semi-retired.

Go to any country in the world outside North America and I bet more people know who Eminem is than Drake.

When did the game turn into the Drake show

It's been dominance since way before 2016. You can't just use album sales to account for dominance. You have to consider everything from hit singles to overall impact. For instance, up until 2013, Eminem was still scoring bigger album debuts than Drake but I wouldn't say he dominated over Drake that year. Drake had the more impactful album and had way bigger singles. Same in 2012 and even 2011.

When people speak on Drake's run, it's less about when he became the #1 guy because that's quite subjective and more about how long he's been dominating the game and that started in 2009 with So Far Gone's impact, Best I Ever Had/Successful being hits and the omnipresence his features gave him starting from then.

This is facts.

Never underestimate just how big Em actually is.

I think it’s obvious he’s still more famous than Drake. He’s also the only rapper that can compete with him on end of year album sales charts. No one else is coming close.