Drake Officially Passes Michael Jackson For Most Male Solo No. 1 Hits In Hot 100 History

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Drake performs live on stage during day two of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 12, 2025 in London, England. Drake is headlining an unprecedented all three nights of Wireless Festival.
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 12: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Drake performs live on stage during day two of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 12, 2025 in London, England. Drake is headlining an unprecedented all three nights of Wireless Festival. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images for ABA)

Drake’s latest release cycle arrived less like a single moment than a sweep across the charts, with three new albums—ICEMAN, Maid of Honour, and Habibti—landing simultaneously on Billboard’s major rankings. The impact was immediate on the Hot 100, where “Janice STFU” opened at No. 1 and pushed him past Michael Jackson for the most chart-toppers by a solo male artist. It marks his 14th No. 1 single, placing him alongside Rihanna and Taylor Swift in the broader hierarchy, behind Mariah Carey’s 19 and the Beatles’ 20.

Across the trilogy, the scale of his chart presence was unusually dense even by his standards. Forty-two of the 43 tracks entered the Hot 100, with nine appearing inside the top ten, while only “Where’s Your Stuff Interlude” failed to chart due to its short runtime. In total, the rollout added another statistical layer to an already sprawling record of chart appearances that continues to stretch the boundaries of modern release strategies.

Drake Tops 400 Hot 100 Entries, Extending Chart History Lead

The new figures also extend Drake’s long-running dominance in cumulative Hot 100 entries. He previously set the mark in 2018 with Scorpion, which placed 27 songs on the chart in a single week, before that record was later surpassed by Morgan Wallen’s 36-song showing with One Thing at a Time in 2023. Still, Drake retains the overall lead for total entries, climbing from 362 to 402 and becoming the first artist to cross the 400-song threshold.

Taylor Swift remains the closest comparator in total Hot 100 appearances, with 276 entries across her catalog. Taken together, the numbers reinforce how Drake’s commercial reach has become measured not just in hits but in volume—an accumulation that continues to reshape the upper limits of chart history.


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