He sold his pound cake by the slice or by the pound. From there, Drake's popularity grew and so did the Drake's brand with.

A few years later he opened up his first bakery in Brooklyn and began selling his pound cake by the slice or by the pound. Drake developed the beloved pound cake recipe. Rihanna holds second place with 124 million certified units, with Taylor Swift at 108.5 units and Eminem at 107.5 units. 1896 Drake Baking Company Newman Drake opened his first bakery in Brooklyn, New York. Drake's has been providing New England with delicious snack cakes for over a century. While Drake now leads in the digital singles category, his competition certainly has the potential to catch up with their own rounds of certification and re-certification. Generally for the digital single award, certification requests are submitted to the RIAA on a per track basis, and a third party firm conducts the necessary audit.

The fortuitous timing of these new awards seem strategic given the concurrence with Scorpion's release date.

What A Time To Be Alive, a collaborative commercial mixtape with Atlanta rapper Future, is represented by a 5x platinum award for the single 'Jumpman,' as well as a platinum nod for opener 'Digital Dash.' Additionally, one-off singles 'Back To Back' and '0 To 100 / The Catch Up' earn double-platinum plaques despite having never appeared on any of his albums. While the majority of these new digital single awards go to songs from his albums and commercial mixtapes, there are exceptions.

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