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Every Drake release brings its share of Billboard chart history, and his new single âSearch & Rescueâ is no different.
The track debuts at No. 2 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated April 22), extending his records for the most top 5s, top 10s, top 20s, top 40s and total entries in chart history.
As Drake makes more history, hereâs a look at all the Hot 100 records the superstar has broken in his career, and those that he hasnât (yet), all through the chart dated April 22, 2023.
Itâs worth noting that, as streaming has become more prominent in recent years, some acts have been able to achieve impressive Hot 100 feats after releasing high-profile albums. The model contrasts with prior decades, when acts generally promoted one single at a time in the physical-only marketplace and on radio. That shift in consumption helps explain why artists have been able to increase their total number of career entries and top 10s over short spans in recent years.
Most Top Five Billboard Hot 100 Hits
Drake has 35 top five hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Most Top 10 Hot 100 Hits
Drake has 68 top 10 hits on the Hot 100.
Most Top 20 Hot 100 Hits
Drake has 116 top 20 hits on the Hot 100.
Most Top 40 Hot 100 Hits
Drake has 174 top 40 hits on the Hot 100.
Most Hot 100 Hits
Drake has 294 Hot 100 hits.
Most No. 2-Peaking Hot 100 Hits
Drake has nine songs that have peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100.
Most No. 1 Hot 100 Debuts
Drake has seven songs that have debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Most Top Five Hot 100 Debuts
Drake has 25 songs that have debuted in the top five on the Hot 100.
Most Top 10 Hot 100 Debuts
Drake has 53 songs that have debuted in the top 10 of the Hot 100.
Most Top 20 Hot 100 Debuts
Drake has 93 songs that have debuted in the top 20 of the Hot 100.
Most Top 40 Hot 100 Debuts
Drake has 141 songs that have debuted in the top 40 of the Hot 100.
Most Consecutive Weeks Spent on the Hot 100
Drake spent a record 431 consecutive weeks on the Hot 100 (2009 â 2017).
Most Simultaneous Top Five Hot 100 Hits
Drake had five top five Hot 100 hits on the Sept. 18, 2021-dated chart, matching The Beatles, who hit that record on April 4, 1964. Taylor Swift matched the record on Nov. 5, 2022.
Most Simultaneous Top 20 Hot 100 Hits
Drake had 15 simultaneous top 20 Hot 100 hits on the Nov. 19, 2022-dated chart.
Most Simultaneous Top 40 Hot 100 Hits
Drake had 21 simultaneous top 40 Hot 100 hits on the July 14, 2018 and Sept. 18, 2021-dated charts
Most Top 10 Hits in a Calendar Year
Drake earned 13 top 10 hits on the Hot 100 in 2018, 2021 and 2022.
Most Top 40 Hits in a Calendar Year
Drake earned 31 top 40 hits on the Hot 100 in 2022.
Most Cumulative Weeks Spent in the Top 10
Drake has spent 372 total weeks in the top 10 of the Hot 100 (combining the totals of all his 68 top 10s).
HASN’T BROKEN: Most No. 1 Hits
Drake has tallied 11 No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 in his career, the most among rappers. Among all artists, though, heâs tied with Whitney Houston for the seventh-most, after The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (19), Rihanna (14), Michael Jackson (13), The Supremes and Madonna (12 each).
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Simultaneous Hot 100 Hits
Morgan Wallen holds the record for the most entries on the Hot 100 in a single week, with 36 on March 18, 2023 from his LP One Thing At A Time. Drake previously held the record, when he charted 27 songs on the July 14, 2018-dated chart.
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Cumulative Weeks Spent at No. 1
Drake has spent a combined 54Â weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in his career. Thatâs the fourth-most, after Mariah Carey (87), Rihanna (60) and The Beatles (59).
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Consecutive Weeks Spent in the Top 10
Drake spent 51 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100âs top 10 in 2015-16, thanks to âHotline Bling,â Rihannaâs Drake-featuring âWork,â âSummer Sixteenâ and âOne Dance,â featuring WizKid and Kyla. Thatâs the fourth-longest unbroken run in the top 10, after Katy Perryâs 69-week run in 2010-11, The Chainsmokersâ 61-weeks in 2016-17 and Justin Bieberâs 59 weeks in 2021-22.
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Simultaneous Top 10 Hot 100 Hits
Drake logged a then-record nine entries in the top 10 on the chart dated Sept. 18, 2021. Swift surpassed that when she blanketed the entire top 10 on the chart dated Nov. 5, 2022.
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Top 10 Hot 100 Hits From One Album
Drake scored nine top 10s from his 2021 album Certified Lover Boy, the record until Taylor Swift notched. 10 from Midnights on the chart dated Nov, 5, 2022.
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Weeks Simultaneously Topping the Hot 100 & Billboard 200
Drake has doubled-up atop both charts simultaneously on eight different occasions in his career, the third-most of all time after The Beatles and Whitney Houston, who have doubled for 12 weeks apiece.
HASN’T BROKEN: Most No. 1 Hits in a Calendar Year
Drake biggest year, in terms of No. 1 Hot 100 singles, was 2018, where he scored three of his 11 No. 1 hits: âGodâs Plan,â âNice for Whatâ and âIn My Feelings.â The record for the most No. 1 hits earned in a calendar year belongs to The Beatles, who earned six in 1964: âI Want To Hold Your Hand,â âShe Loves You,â âCanât Buy Me Love,â âLove Me Do,â âA Hard Dayâs Nightâ and âI Feel Fine.â (Though Drakeâs vocals are used on Travis Scottâs 2018 No. 1 âSicko Mode,â he is not officially credited on the track and it therefore does not count towards his chart history.)
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Top Five Hits in a Calendar Year
Drake tallied eight top five hits on the Hot 100 in 2021 alone, his personal best for any year: âWhatâs Next,â âWants and Needs,â âLemon Pepper Freestyle,â âChampagne Poetry,â âGirls Want Girls,â âFair Trade,â âWay 2 Sexyâ and âKnife Talk.â The Beatles hold the all-time record for most top five hits in a calendar year, with 10 earned in 1964: âI Want To Hold Your Hand,â âShe Loves You,â âPlease Please Me,â âTwist and Shout,â âDo You Want To Know a Secret,â âCanât Buy Me Love,â âLove Me Do,â âA Hard Dayâs Night,â âI Feel Fineâ and âSheâs a Woman.â
HASN’T BROKEN: Most Overall Entries in a Calendar Year
Drake earned 41 total entries on the Hot 100 in 2022, a new personal best in a single year. The overall record for most entries earned in a calendar year is 80, achieved by the Glee Cast in 2010.
HASN’T BROKEN: Song With the Most Weeks Spent at No. 1
Drakeâs longest running No. 1 hit is âGodâs Planâ: 11 weeks in 2018. Lil Nas Xâs âOld Town Road,â featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, holds the all-time longevity record, with 19 weeks spent at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2019.
HASN’T BROKEN: Song With the Most Weeks Spent in the Top Five
Drakeâs longest running top five Hot 100 hit is âGodâs Planâ (22 weeks). The Weekndâs âBlinding Lightsâ holds the record for the most weeks spent in the region, with 43 weeks.
HASN’T BROKEN: Song With the Most Weeks Spent in the Top 10
Drakeâs longest running top 10 hit is âGodâs Planâ (26 weeks). The Weekndâs âBlinding Lightsâ holds the record for the most weeks spent in the region, with 57 weeks.
HASN’T BROKEN: Song With the Most Weeks Spent in the Top 20
Drakeâs longest running top 20 hit is âNo Guidanceâ (Chris Brown featuring Drake; 31 weeks). The Weekndâs âBlinding Lightsâ holds the record for the most weeks spent in the region, with 80 weeks.
HASN’T BROKEN: Song With the Most Weeks Spent in the Top 40
Drakeâs longest running top 40 hit is âNo Guidanceâ (Chris Brown featuring Drake; 44 weeks). The Weekndâs âBlinding Lightsâ holds the record for the most weeks spent in the region, with 86 weeks.
HASN’T BROKEN: Song With the Most Weeks Spent on the Hot 100
Drakeâs longest-running Hot 100 hit overall is âNo Guidanceâ (46 total weeks). Glass Animalsâ âHeat Wavesâ holds the record for the most weeks spent on the chart, with 91 in 2021-22.
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Drake and Future have previously teamed up to make some hit records in the past, but can the duo use their talents to make a hit TV series? Weâre about to find out.
A few days ago, we got our first trailer for Huluâs new whodunit series, Saint X, for which both Drake and Future serve as executive producers. Starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, the Saint X centers around Careyâs pursuit of the truth of who murdered her sister when they took a family vacation to the Caribbean when she was a child. Now that sheâs a grown woman, Carey decides to take it upon herself to look into her big sisterâs disappearance, her subsequent death and why it was ruled an âaccidentâ by authorities on the island.
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Naturally many will assume that the island natives working the resort were the ones who committed the crime even though said big sister was being romanticized by a white dude who gave off Mark Wahlberg in Fear vibes. Was it a cover-up? Was it an accident? Who knows what, and why are they hiding the truth? Our moneyâs on wannabe Wahlberg.
Though Drake and Future are executive producers we donât know if either of the two will be making any cameos in the eight-part miniseries. With a tropical island setting, which they could use to shoot a music video at the same time, youâd think they would. But weâll have to wait and see.
Check out the trailer to Saint X below, and let us know if youâll be checking it out when it hits Hulu April 26.
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Jim Jones is never short on opinions. In a new interview he claims that Drake should be considered the GOAT.
As spotted on Complex the Harlem, New York native recent chat with Rap Caviar podcast he discussed his new album with Hit Make Back In My Prime. While promoting his newest effort he also discussed a bevy of other topics including who he thinks is the greatest of all time. When Kev assumed his GOAT pick was Jay-Z CAPO was quick to correct him. âI canât agree on that. ⌠[Jay is] at the top of the barrel when it comes to what heâs doneâ he explained. âHeâs a billionaire, he has done some sh*t for dope boys that people never even thought could be. Heâs put himself in rooms that you couldnât imagine.â
The Diplomats member when on to justify why he feels Drake is more impactful. âI havenât heard too much Jay-Z music in the last six to seven years that was really hitting out here in these streets on the lit side of things,â he stated. âIn the past 12 years everything that Drake has put out has hit like 2Pac was hitting. No matter if you like it. No matter if n****s donât like it cause heâs light-skinned, no matter if n****s donât like it cause heâs singing⌠No matter what n****s like, he always seems to be in these n****sâ playlists.â
You can see Jim Jones discuss Drake, Jay-Z and more below.
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Drake earned the reputation of being a calculated thinker in his music rollouts, and his latest single is causing a stir because of a famous voice that was sampled. In the new song âSearch & Rescue,â Kim Kardashianâs voice is heard during the bridge of the track which has some on Twitter believing there is still some beef between Drake and Ye aka Kanye West.
Drake, fresh from rocking the Dreamville Festival stages in a standout performance packed with surprise guests, previously teased âSearch & Rescueâ on OVO Sound Radio which sparked a flurry of speculation among observers because of the Kardashian voice sample.
Now that the song is released in full, âSearch & Rescueâ is produced by Sad Pony and BYNX and sees Drizzy in a lovelorn state trying to make amends with a woman crooning sweet nothing such as âTake me off the mapâ and âI need someone to be patient with meâ along with similar missives spread throughout.
Causing further discussion is the singleâs cover art, which features Drake and a woman who curiously looks like Kardashian in motorcycle helmets largely obscuring their faces.
As most things are with the Canadian superstar, this could be either an amazing coincidence or another sly attempt of him showcasing his petty powers to the maximum. It was thought that whatever beef existed between Ye and Drake was settled after the pair rocked the âFree Larry Hooverâ concert together and that still could be true. Still, Twitter has other ideas and weâve got reactions from all sides below.
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Drake surprised fans on Thursday (April 6) by revealing that his newest track, âSearch & Rescue,â will be arriving just a day later. On Friday (April 7), he delivered the spicy track.
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Drake teased a portion of the song â which was then thought to be titled âRescue Meâ â during The Fry Yiy Show on his SiriusXM Radio station Sound 42 late last week. The track features audio of Kim Kardashian talking about her relationship with ex-husband Kanye West in the E! series finale of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2021. âI didnât come this far, just to come this far and not be happy, remember that,â she says in the sample.
Drizzy teamed up with two producers for âSearch & Rescueâ: BNYX, who has worked with Coi Leray and Yeat on recent tracks, and Sadpony, who produced Drakeâs âJumbotron Shâ Poppinâ collaboration with 21 Savage, which appeared on 2022âs Her Loss.
Listen to âSearch & Rescueâ below.
The arrival of a new Drake song is imminent. On Thursday (April 6), the rapper announced the song âSearch & Rescueâ in an Instagram post.
âSEARCH & RESCUE OUT AT MIDNIGHT ON ALL PLATFORMS,â the rapper wrote, captioning a photo of him and a girl wearing glossy black motorcycle helmets.
In the photo, Drizzy tagged two producers: BNYX, who has worked with Coi Leray and Yeat on recent tracks, and Sadpony, who produced Drakeâs âJumbotron Shâ Poppinâ collaboration with 21 Savage, which appeared on 2022âs Her Loss.
While fans will have to wait just a few more hours to hear the track in full, Drake teased a portion of the song â which was then thought to be titled âRescue Meâ â during The Fry Yiy Show on his SiriusXM Radio station Sound 42 late last week. The track features audio of Kim Kardashian talking about her relationship with ex-husband Kanye West in the E! series finale of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2021. âI didnât come this far, just to come this far and not be happy, remember that,â she says in the sample.
The sample prompted fans to speculate if Drake was taking a shot at West, who now goes by Ye, but the rapperâs father, Dennis Graham, shot down the rumors in the comments section of TMZâs Instagram account. âDrake is not trolling anyone, itâs just a song, Why try and create a Kanye and Drake beef again???????????????â he wrote.
Watch Drakeâs teaser for âSearch & Rescueâ in the post below.
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Dreamville Festival 2023 wrapped up epically on Sunday (April 2), surpassing the wildest dreams of most of the fans in attendance on the first day of the weekend-long celebration alone. On the final night, Dreamville honcho J. Cole took alongside a certain Canadian superstar, who then brought out a bevy of unannounced surprise guests much to the delight of fans.
Hip-Hop Wired attended Dreamville Fest 2023, adding to the eventâs well-established legacy and one of the premier annual music events on the east coast and beyond.
Since the big reveal of the star-studded lineup, most fans in attendance that we overheard were most excited about the prospect of seeing Drake rock the Dreamville stages alongside Fayettvilleâs native son, and they were not left disappointed.
Cole came out to raucous applause and ran through several fan favorites before pausing his set to give praise to Drake. The two were in top performance mode with Drake truly delighting the masses by bringing out GloRilla, Lil Uzi Vert, and Lil Wayne to perform some of their biggest hits.
Forgive us for the lack of a set list because we were too busy screaming our lungs out taking in the show to take notes. Put it this way. Each of the aforementioned stars has huge songs in their catalog and in that short amount of time, we heard most of the best.
We also have to add that while it is still VERY EARLY in festival season, it will be hard to top what we had the privilege of witnessing in Raleigh, N.C. Kudos to the whole Dreamville staff, label, and crew.
On Twitter, the reaction to J. Cole and Drake closing out the Dreamville Festival with a few of their famous pals is still going strong. Check out those tweets below.
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Even though he just co-headlined Dreamville Festival with J. Cole over the weekend, Drakeâs made a lot of headlines over a song he didnât perform but might be releasing soon.
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On Friday, the superstar rapper previewed a new track titled âRescue Meâ during an episode of Sound 42âs The Fry Yiy Show on SiriusXM Radio. The song samples Kim Kardashian discussing her divorce with Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) during the series finale of E!âs Keeping Up With the Kardashians. âI didnât come this far, just to come this far and not be happy. Remember that,â she tells her mother Kris Jenner in the audio.
Last week, producer BNYX shared a clip from Drakeâs Instagram Story of âRescue Meâ playing from a DJ controller. âI remember when I used to add the Drake acapellas to my beats to see if they was hard. Now look,â he wrote.
Taunting Ye is a classic move in Drizzyâs playbook, considering both rappersâ historic beef. In August 2021, Drake reignited their feud by dissing Ye in his verse off Trippie Reddâs âBetrayal.â The Donda rapper then leaked the OVO bossâ home address on social media, and the Certified Lover Boy MC retaliated by taking shots at him on his song â7am on Bridle Pathâ and later leaking the then-unreleased âLife of the Partyâ collaboration between Ye and AndrĂŠ 3000 on SiriusXM, before the track eventually found itself on the track list for the deluxe version of Donda. The two seemed to have squashed their beef by the end of year, when they came together to perform at the âFree Larry Hooverâ benefit concert at Los Angelesâ Coliseum, which was organized by J. Prince.
During the concert, Ye pleaded with his ex-wife Kardashian to ârun right back to meâ while performing his âRunawayâ magnum opus from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Their divorce was finalized on Nov. 29, 2022, and less than two months later, he reportedly remarried to Yeezyâs head of architecture, Bianca Censori.
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Looks like Drake isnât quite over his beef with Kanye West. The King of the North has just dropped a snippet of his new song, which features Yeâs ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
A year and change after Drizzy and Kanye seemingly squashed their beef by performing a joint concert in support of Larry Hoover, Drake decided to sample Kim Kardashian on his latest song dubbed âMommy,â which features a snippet of Kanyeâs baby mama saying âI didnât come this far just to come this far and not be happy.â
Sure it seems innocent enough, but as weâve learned over the years, Drake likes to play chess not checkers. And heâs constantly putting his pieces in place a few steps ahead of his opponent. (Remember him and his team rocking Chris Paul jerseys for âno reasonâ years ago?)
And let us not forget his bars on the Her Loss track âCirco Locoâ in which Drizzy spit âLinking with the opps, b*tch I did that shit for J. Prince.â Why Drake would spit that particular line or unnecessarily sample Kim Kardashian is anyoneâs guess at this point.
Has Kanye still been talking sideways about Drake on the low and it got back to Drizzy? Maybe Drake took Kanyeâs antisemitic outbursts to heart and wants some retribution. We donât know, but it seems like Drake still wants the smoke with the lone MAGA rapper in the Hip-Hop game and weâre curious to see if Kanye returns with some kind of subliminal of his own.
Whatever the case may be it feels like the Drake and Kanye beef isnât over, and weâre wondering if Ye (or maybe Pusha T) will respond to the King of The North sampling Yeezusâ former queen for his track.
What do yâall think is at play here? Is Drake baiting Kanye West or did he just sample Kim Kardashian for sampling sake? Let us know in the comments section below.
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DJ Akademiks is definitely a notable voice in the sprawling Hip-Hop media space although some would venture to say that his style of journalism isnât particularly hard-hitting. Ak, using his massive platform, took shots at Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and J. Cole for not sitting down with Hip-Hop outlets and instead took interviews with spaces outside the culture.
DJ Akademiks took to his customary post on Twitch to talk his talk regarding the aforementioned trio of rappers who made their marks early on during the so-called âblog eraâ and transformed themselves into Hip-Hop megastars.
From Akâs perspective, it appears that this current dig at Hip-Hopâs biggest names came in the wake of J. Cole recently sitting down with Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers for a wide-ranging chat that wasnât solely focused on his storied career. Instead, the North Carolina rapper shared tales of his upbringing, including a time when his older brother caught him smoking cigarettes at the age of 6 and disappointing his mother in the process.
It was not an interview in the vein of what is typically held today via the various Hip-Hop podcasts and the like. DJ Akademiks believes that Drizzy, K-Dot, and Cole World are behaving as if theyâre too famous to work with media outlets that are, in his words, within the culture.
In that same breath, Ak called the gentlemen âweirdâ for bypassing hubs like The Joe Budden Podcast, Million Dollaz Worth Of Game, and other shows of the same ilk.
On Twitter, the comments from DJ Akademiks garnered some responses. Weâve got those reactions listed out below.
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