Drake Breaks Michael Jackson's Hot 100 No. 1 Record With 14 Chart-Toppers as 42 Songs Enter
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Updated · Variety · May 26
Drake Breaks Michael Jackson's Hot 100 No. 1 Record With 14 Chart-Toppers as 42 Songs Enter
5 articles · Updated · Variety · May 26
"Janice STFU" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Drake 14 chart-toppers and the most No. 1s by a solo male artist, ahead of Michael Jackson.
The surge followed Drake's May 15 release of three albums — "Iceman," "Maid of Honour" and "Habibti" — which had already debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the albums chart.
Drake also set a new single-week Hot 100 entry record with 42 songs, surpassing Morgan Wallen's 2025 mark of 37, and placed nine songs in this week's top 10.
That run lifted Drake to 90 career Hot 100 top-10 hits and made him the first act to exceed 400 career entries; across all acts, his 14 No. 1s now tie Rihanna and Taylor Swift, trailing only Mariah Carey and the Beatles.
Amid Drake's total chart domination, how did one country artist's song break into the top five?
Did Drake's record-breaking week prove his artistic victory or just how to game the music charts?
Is Drake's triple-album strategy the future of music releases or a sign of artistic desperation?