What to know
- Drake’s latest song “Janice STFU” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- The achievement gives Drake 14 career No. 1 hits, overtaking Michael Jackson among solo male artists.
- Drake also became the first artist in Billboard history to surpass 400 Hot 100 entries, now sitting at 402.
- Billboard reported Drake had 42 songs charting simultaneously this week, setting another record.
- Earlier this month, Drake dropped three albums in one night: Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour.
Drake has fans talking after surpassing Michael Jackson as the solo male artist with the most No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100.
After decades in the top spot, Michael Jackson has been dethroned as the solo male artist with the most No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 by none other than Drake.
The local rapper’s song “Janice STFU” entered at the top of the chart this week, with Billboard reporting that this is the 14th track of Drake’s to top the list in his career.
When it comes to the artist with the most songs to have made it on the Hot 100 list in their career, Drizzy already topped the list, but his latest projects have upped that number from an impressive 362 to a whopping 402. This also makes Drake the first artist in history to surpass 400 total entries on the chart.
He also made history by having 42 songs make it on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the platform reporting this as record-setting for the most concurrent entries in one week.
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This comes after he made huge waves by dropping three albums in one night earlier this month. The trio of albums, Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour, snagged the top three spots on the Billboard Chart dated May 30, which was released today. This makes him the first artist to hold the top three albums on the Billboard 200 in the same week.
When it comes to the top 5 acts with at least 10 No. 1s on the Billboard 200, The Beatles top the list with 19, followed by Drake and Taylor Swift, with 15 respectively, Jay-Z with 14 entries, followed by Eminem, Future, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, and Ye (formerly Kanye West) with 11 each, while Elvis Presley rounds out the list with 10 projects.
Following the record-breaking feat, Drizzy took to social media to mark the moment.
“Neck broke from carrying the chain,” he posted to Instagram alongside a graphic showing Michael Jackson with blue straightback cornrows.
“Back broke from carrying the game,” he continued. “Records broken carry on my name.”
“Carry on carry on.”
Meanwhile, fans are weighing in on the post.
“How sick would it be if MJ was alive bro and ya’ll WAS TO COLLAB!!!! Would of been dope for the culture,” NBA shooting coach Chris Matthews commented on Instagram.
“It’s that ICEMAN season!” Another fan commented.
“Michael is a great guiding light and cautionary tale. His gift was that he could feel humanity deeply enough to translate collective pain into music. But over time his own suffering got tangled with that same pain,” Toronto sexologist Shan Boodram said under the post.
“So when Michael sang about injustice, paranoia, betrayal, being hunted, misunderstood, watched, it felt like both: ‘Look what they do to humanity’ and ‘Look what they did to me.’”
She continued to call that overlap powerful, but dangerous.
“[Because] without boundaries Michael felt so much of humanity that eventually the suffering seemed to consume him. An artist’s great struggle is to reflect the darkness of Earth without descending into it.”
Meanwhile, some people feel the comparison does not hold up.
“MJ did all that without social media,” one person said on Instagram. “Nothing Drake can do would be near him.”
“Drake is not even close to MJ,” another person shared
