Drake is such a hot artisan that one of his albums is affairs alike admitting he didn't absolution it.

An crooked album, "The Girls Love Drake," which appearance selections from the Toronto rapper's mixtape "So Far Gone" and added tracks, was arise May 28th by a characterization alleged Canadian Money Entertainment and broadcast by the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) on iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon.

Drake's camp, which is still aggravating to bright the samples on "So Far Gone" and his two added mixtapes in hopes of affairs them in stores, says it didn't accredit the release.

If it hadn't been butterfingers on the area that it wasn't accepted as actuality an official album, "The Girls Love Drake" would accept debuted this anniversary at No. 101 on the Billboard 200, No. 16 on the Agenda Albums blueprint and No. 1 on the Heatseekers tally. "Best I Ever Had" and "Every Girl" (credited to Young Money), two advance on the mixtape that accept ahead charted, arise on this week's Hot Agenda Songs blueprint acknowledgment to downloads of "The Girls Love Drake." Additionally, "Best I Ever Had" all-overs 60-18 on the Billboard 200, while "Every Girl" leaps 75-35, although blueprint experts adumbrate they will both bead afresh already the actionable anthology is no best available.

After award the anthology on iTunes, Drake's administration beatific a cease-and-desist apprehension to the retailer, which has back removed it. At columnist time, the anthology was still accessible on Rhapsody and Amazon, although Drake's administrator Al Branch says he's accepting it removed from these retailers as well.

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"This is a beeline bootleg, a scandal. We are abaft announcement annal at radio, but haven't awash it," Al Branch, Drake's manager, tells Billboard.com. "iTunes' position is that they are a abundance and they banal everything. They accept a abandonment and as continued as bodies assurance it and are amenable for the artefact they submit, again they go for it."

Branch additionally says that Drake affairs to book a accusation adjoin Canadian Money Entertainment, which he says isn't in affiliation with Drake or Young Money, the Lil Wayne-owned characterization that Drake is affiliated with. Drake is currently the accountable of a above characterization behest war and is abutting to signing with Universal Motown.

Peter Greenwood, the architect of Canadian Money Entertainment, says the aggregation has been absolution mixtapes for bearding artists back 2003 and their purposes in absolution "The Girls Love Drake" was never ill-intended. "'The Girls Love Drake' was aloof a aggregate of fresh and old songs that we had been announcement on the underground arena for the aftermost six months and so we capital to get added acknowledgment for it on the net," he says. "Breaking him in the states forth with added Toronto artists has consistently been our goal. Drake is our hometown hero."

Branch is anxious that Young Money or October's Own, Drake's label, could be sued back the samples on the mixtapes, which accommodate beats on albums by David Banner, Goapele and Colun Munroe, haven't been cleared. But Greenwood says that he was blind of the legalities of affairs a mixtape on iTunes. "There were advance produced for added artists that

Drake rapped over that were not cleared. While some songs were original, this was meant to be an underground activity and not a above release," he says. "We approved to get the activity out through a fresh belvedere on the agenda level, but we were chock-full afore we could get started because mixtapes are not accustomed on that level."

Moving forward, Greenwood says he will abide to advance his mixtapes the traditional, offline route, and if a accusation does absolutely appear his way he affairs to accord with it arch on.