If You're Reading This It's Too Late: Drake releases surprise 17-track mixtape

Features Lil Wayne and Travi$ Scott

Drake performs at London's O2 Arena (Getty)

Just as fans were expecting new album Views From The 6 to arrive, Drake has released a brand new mixtape spanning 17 tracks and available for download on iTunes.

Featuring Lil Wayne, PartyNextDoor and Travi$ Scott, If You're Reading This Too Late marks the first new songs we've heard from Drizzy since last year's trio of 6 God, Heat of the Moment and How Bout Now.

It follows the navel-gazing short film Jungle he launched on Vimeo yesterday and falls on the same day that Kanye West releases a new collaboration with Sia called Wolves.

The mixtape collects tracks we have heard previously along with a bunch of new ones and is not thought to be a replacement for Views From The 6, though the new album is still yet to get a release date.

Drake has been incredibly prolific lately, his last album - Nothing Was The Same - was only released in 2013.

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late Tracklist (I went ahead and emboldened the initial stand-out tracks for you):

01. Legend
02. Energy
03. 10 Bands
04. Know Yourself
05. No Tellin’
06. Madonna
07. 6 God
08. Star67
09. Preach (feat. PartyNextDoor)
10. Wednesday Night Interlude (feat. PartyNextDoor)
11. Used To (feat. Lil Wayne)
13. Now & Forever
14. Company (Feat. Travi$ Scott)
15. You & The 6
16. Jungle

17. 6PM In New York