Chart Commentary — MAY 26, 2026

DRAKE: 3 ALBUMS, 42 SONGS. LET’S GET INTO IT!!!

NEW SINGLE-WEEK RECORD FOR SONGS ON THE HOT 100

Drake additionally charts a new single-week record 42 songs on the Hot 100 — surpassing Morgan Wallen, who charted 37 for a week last May. With 40 debuts (likewise, thus, a single-week record), he also becomes the first act ever to have accumulated more than 400 career entries on the chart.

All 42 titles are from Drake’s three new albums — ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR (released May 15 on OVO Sound/Republic) — which debut at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the Billboard 200, where he becomes the first artist to monopolize the top three simultaneously in the chart’s 70-year history.

MOST CAREER NUMBER ONES FOR A SOLO MALE ARTIST

Here’s a recap of Drake’s 14 career Hot 100 No. 1s:

1. “Janice STFU” (one week to-date, May 30, 2026)
2. “First Person Shooter,” feat. J. Cole (one, Oct. 21, 2023)
3. “Slime You Out,” feat. SZA (one, Sept. 30, 2023)
4. “Jimmy Cooks,” feat. 21 Savage (one, July 2, 2022)
5. “Wait for U,” Future feat. Drake & Tems (one, May 14, 2022)
6. “Way 2 Sexy,” feat. Future & Young Thug (one, Sept. 18, 2021)
7. “What’s Next” (one, March 20, 2021)
8. “Toosie Slide” (one, April 18, 2020)
9. “In My Feelings” (10 weeks, beginning July 21, 2018)
10. “Nice for What” (eight, beginning April 21, 2018)
11. “God’s Plan” (11, beginning Feb. 3, 2018)
12. “One Dance,” feat. WizKid & Kyla (10, beginning May 21, 2016)
13. “Work,” feat. Drake (nine, beginning March 5, 2016)
14. “What’s My Name?,” Rihanna feat. Drake (one, Nov. 20, 2010)

Drake also becomes the first artist with as many as 10 No. 1 debuts on the Hot 100. (His only leaders to start not at the bottom, but not on top: “In My Feelings,” No. 6; “Work,” No. 9; “One Dance,” No. 21; and “What’s My Name?,” No. 83.) All eight of his No. 1s this decade have debuted at the summit.

The song marks Drake’s 14th career Hot 100 leader — breaking him out of a tie with Michael Jackson for the most among solo males over the chart’s 67-year archives.  “I’m one away from Michael,” a chart-knowledgeable Drake notes in 2023’s “First Person Shooter,” which also shouts out Jackson’s classic 1983 Hot 100 No. 1 “Beat It.” The lyric became antiquated upon the debut of “First Person Shooter,” which upped Drake into a tie with Jackson for the most leaders among solo males. With the entrance of “Janice STFU,” Drake’s 14 Hot 100 No. 1s give him the mark all to himself.

Jackson solely held the record for the most Hot 100 No. 1s among male soloists for more than 35 years, beginning on July 2, 1988, when “Dirty Diana” became his 11th (and the fifth from his album Bad, the first of two such feats in the chart’s history). That week, he one-upped Stevie Wonder’s 10 No. 1s. Drake tied Jackson at 13 leaders when “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, debuted atop the survey dated Oct. 21, 2023.

Drake also matches Rihanna and Taylor Swift for the second-most Hot 100 No. 1s among all soloists, after Mariah Carey (19).  Here’s a rundown of the acts with the most Hot 100 No. 1s, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception:

• 20, The Beatles
• 19, Mariah Carey
• 14, Drake
• 14, Rihanna
• 14, Taylor Swift
• 13, Michael Jackson
• 12, Madonna
• 12, The Supremes
• 11, Whitney Houston
• 10, Janet Jackson
• 10, Bruno Mars
• 10, Stevie Wonder

Meanwhile, Drake boasts the fourth-most total career weeks at No. 1 ever on the Hot 100: 57. Carey leads with 101, followed by Rihanna (60) and The Beatles (59). Boyz II Men complete the top five (50).

Plus, Toronto-born Drake extends his record for the most Hot 100 No. 1s among Canadians. His neighbors at the north of the list: Justin Bieber, second with eight, and The Weekend (seven).

DRAKE’S DOING 90!

Drake debuts nine songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, boosting his record total to 90. All nine are from ICEMAN, which joins the elite list of albums with five or more top 10s.  Here’s an updated leaderboard of the acts with the most Hot 100 top 10s all-time:

• 90, Drake
• 69, Taylor Swift
• 38, Madonna
• 35, The Beatles
• 32, Rihanna
• 30, Michael Jackson
• 29, Elton John
• 28, Mariah Carey
• 28, Stevie Wonder
• 27, Justin Bieber
• 27, Janet Jackson
• 26, Lil Wayne
• 25, Elvis Presley (whose career start predated the Hot 100’s inception)

Drake charts a new single-week record 42 songs on the Hot 100, surpassing the 37 that Morgan Wallen stacked on the May 31, 2025, chart, similarly powered by the Billboard 200 debut of his album I’m the Problem. Wallen rewrote his own mark of 36 set when predecessor album One Thing at a Time made its chart start on the March 18, 2023, list.

Here is the complete set of Drake’s 42 songs on the latest Hot 100 (all debuts, except where noted), as well as the streaming totals for the tracks in the top 10, as streams drive the bulk of their activity:

• No. 1, “Janice STFU” (40.7 million)
• No. 2, “Ran to Atlanta,” feat. Future & Molly Santana (38.5 million)
• No. 3, “Whisper My Name” (34.5 million)
• No. 4, “Shabang” (32.9 million)
• No. 6, “National Treasures” (31.7 million)
• No. 7, “Make Them Cry” (30.1 million)
• No. 8, “Dust” (29.1 million)
• No. 9, “2 Hard 4 the Radio” (27.1 million)
• No. 10, “Make Them Pay” (25.3 million)
• No. 11, “Plot Twist”
• No. 12, “B’s on the Table,” feat. 21 Savage
• No. 13, “Burning Bridges”
• No. 15, “What Did I Miss?” (reentry; debuted at its No. 2 peak last July)
• No. 18, “Little Birdie”
• No. 19, “Make Them Remember”
• No. 21, “Make Them Know”
• No. 22, “Hoe Phase”
• No. 23, “Don’t Worry”
• No. 28, “WNBA”
• No. 31, “Firm Friends”
• No. 34, “I’m Spent,” feat. Loe Shimmy
• No. 35, “Classic”
• No. 36, “Fortworth,” feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR
• No. 39, “Slap the City,” with Qendresa
• No. 41, “Cheetah Print,” with Sexyy Red
• No. 42, “Road Trips”
• No. 43, “High Fives”
• No. 56, “Gen 5”
• No. 57, “White Bone”
• No. 61, “Hurrr Nor Thurrr,” feat. Sexyy Red
• No. 63, “Which One,” with Central Cee (reentry; debuted at its No. 23 peak last August)
• No. 65, “Outside Tweaking,” with Stunna Sandy
• No. 67, “True Bestie,” with Iconic Savvy
• No. 71, “Rusty Intro”
• No. 72, “New Bestie”
• No. 74, “BBW”
• No. 76, “Amazing Shape,” with Popcaan
• No. 82, “Prioritizing”
• No. 85, “Q&A”
• No. 88, “Goose and the Juice”
• No. 92, “Princess”
• No. 93, “Stuck”

As Drake surges to 90 career Hot 100 top 10s, Future adds his 16th and Molly Santana earns her first in her first week on Billboard’s charts, thanks to “Ran to Atlanta.” 

MOST TOP 40 HITS

Drake also extends his record for the most top 40 Hot 100 hits to 241 (adding 23), ahead of runner-up Taylor Swift’s 177, with Lil Wayne (91), Presley and Ye (formerly Kanye West) (81 each) rounding out the top five.

MOST OVERALL ENTRIES ON THE HOT 100

Drake additionally pads his mark for the most overall Hot 100 entries to 402 (debuting 40), becoming the first act to clear a stratospheric 400 career appearances. Swift is next with 276, Future one-ups his total to 228, the Glee Cast compiled 207 and Lil Wayne has 195.

FIRST RAP #1 IN OVER A YEAR…AGAIN…

“Janice STFU” also stands out sonically as the first rap Hot 100 No. 1 (as defined by titles that have hit Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart) in a year and a week, since Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” finished its 13-week reign on the May 24, 2025, chart. (In between, 13 titles led — eight pop, two country, one dance/pop, one Latin and one R&B.)

Before that break, no rap titles ruled the Hot 100 over more than a year in 2022-23, in between Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” and Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red.” Prior to that, however, rap No. 1s hadn’t missed a year’s span since 1999.

DRAKE-OVERS VS. TAY-TAYKEOVERS

Drake holds nine of the Hot 100’s top 10 for a second time, after becoming the first artist with such a haul on the Sept. 18, 2021, chart, the debut week for his album Certified Lover Boy.

Only Taylor Swift has bested him, with three clean sweeps of the Hot 100’s top 10, thanks to the explosive chart debuts for 2022’s Midnights (the top 10), 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department (a record top 14) and last year’s The Life of a Showgirl (top 12).

With this much activity this week, next week should be dramatic as we see what songs re-enter the Top 40!

Jarrett Nolan

I was born a poor Black child into a family that put the “fun” in dysfunction. But through that fun, there was A LOT of music. At a very young age, my parents introduced me to everything ranging from Doo Wop to the British Invasion to Motown to Philly Soul to Psychedlic Rock to Funk.

Since I’m a Jersey boy born-n-bred, I landed a job at WHTZ (Z100) as a producer. I gave the DJs info about artists to read on-air – most of mine were chart-related, naturally.

I did double duty at WSBG, a small market radio station in the Poconos, as a DJ because I have a face for radio.

Through a random twist of fate, I wound up at BMG Distribution in Times Square. Shortly after, I ended up at Arista (shouldn’t have done that!). My career in the music industry ended with a stint at being a personal assistant to alterna-rap act PM Dawn.

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