Smoke + Mirrors has just hit retail and will compete with Drake for #1 next Tuesday. Our very early read has the album hitting the 150-175k range. The band’s first album debuted 83k on 9/4/12 en route to an eventual 2.4m in straight album sales and 4.14m TEA.
No.
He's never had a 200k second week. I think the "unpromoted surprise" bit cancels out the "this week includes the 4th through 7th days of release" bit.
If Drake was going 300k, why would this article say that Imagine Dragons would be competing for #1? I mean... Drake will obviously do under or around 200k.