Drake has officially rewritten music history.
The Toronto rapper’s latest single “Janice STFU,” lifted from his new album Iceman, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week — marking his 14th career chart-topper and breaking the longstanding record previously held by Michael Jackson for the most No. 1 singles by a solo male artist on the Hot 100.
The milestone places Drake in elite company. He now ties Rihanna and Taylor Swift with 14 career No. 1s across all artists. Only Mariah Carey, with 19, and The Beatles, with 20, have more chart-toppers in Hot 100 history.
“Janice STFU” opened with 40.7 million streams in its first week, per Billboard.
Drake marked the achievement on Instagram with a post: “Neck broke from carrying the chain / Back broke from carrying the game / Records broken carry on my name / Carry on carry on.”
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The record-breaking single arrived on the heels of one of the most audacious album rollouts in recent music history. On May 15, Drake simultaneously released three studio albums — Iceman, Maid of Honour, and Habibti — via OVO Sound and Republic Records.
In his fourth livestream leading up to the drop, held just hours before Iceman was set to go live on streaming platforms, Drake surprised fans by announcing that two additional albums would release the same night.
The move paid off on the charts in staggering fashion. Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour debuted at Nos. 1, 2, and 3, respectively, on the Billboard 200 albums chart — making Drake the first artist in chart history to simultaneously occupy all three top positions on the albums tally.
Iceman alone earned 463,000 equivalent album units in its opening frame, the biggest single-week streaming debut of 2026.
Iceman‘s No. 1 album debut also gave Drake his 15th chart-topper on the Billboard 200, surpassing Jay-Z’s previous record for the most No. 1 albums among solo men and R&B/hip-hop artists.
42 Songs. One Week. One Artist.
The Hot 100 dominance extended well beyond “Janice STFU.” Drake placed 42 songs on this week’s chart, shattering Morgan Wallen’s record of 37 simultaneous entries set in May 2025. Of those 42 entries, 40 debuted this frame. Drake also occupies nine of the current Hot 100’s top 10 slots.
The chart blitz pushed Drake’s all-time Hot 100 career total to 402 entries — making him the first artist in the chart’s history to surpass the 400-entry mark. Taylor Swift, the next closest, has 276 career entries.
Drake had previously set the single-week entry record himself in 2018 with 27 tracks from Scorpion, before Wallen eventually topped it.
The Iceman album cover — featuring a rhinestone-studded glove — had already been widely read as a nod to Michael Jackson’s signature accessory. Drake has referenced Jackson repeatedly in his music over the past several years, openly framing his own legacy in relation to the King of Pop’s.
The now-broken No. 1 singles record had been held by Jackson prior to this week’s chart update.
Apple Music’s Ebro Darden noted over the holiday weekend that Drake’s three new projects were accounting for 55 percent of all premium plays on the platform.
