“An unauthorized album, “The Girls Love Drake,” which features selections from the Toronto rapper’s mixtape “So Far Gone” and other tracks, was released May 28th by a label called Canadian Money Entertainment and distributed by the [IODA] on iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon.
Drake’s camp, which is still trying to clear the samples on “So Far Gone” and his two other mixtapes in hopes of selling them in stores, says it didn’t authorize the release.
If it hadn’t been disqualified on the grounds that it wasn’t confirmed as being an official album, “The Girls Love Drake” would have debuted this week at No. 101 on the Billboard 200, NO. 16 on the Digital Albums chart and No. 1 on the Heatseekers tally.”
Meanwhile, Drake’s managers have sent a cease-and-desist to iTunes, but the album is still selling on Rhapsody and Amazon.
“This is a straight bootleg, a scandal. We are behind promoting records at radio, but haven’t sold it,” Al Branch, Drake’s manager, tells Billboard.com. “iTunes position is that they are [a] store and they stock everything. They have a waiver and as long as people sign it … they go for it.”
But Canadian Money Entertainment (lol @ the name…really? that’s not a Young Money bite?) insists they’re just trying to help their fellow countrymen…
“‘The Girls Love Drake’ was just a combination of new and old songs that we had been promoting on the underground scene for the last six months and so we wanted to get more exposure for it on the net,” [Canadian Money Ent's Peter Greenwood] says. “Breaking him in the states along with other Toronto artists has always been our goal. Drake is our hometown hero.“
Via: MissInfo
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