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Drake’s Janice STFU debuted at No. 1, his 14th Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper, surpassing Michael Jackson for the most No. 1s among solo male artists.
Drake passed Michael Jackson for the most No. 1 hits among solo male artists on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, taking the milestone with the debut of Janice STFU at the top of the chart dated May 30. It’s his 14th career No. 1 single.
The rapper, real name Aubrey Drake Graham, acknowledged the moment on Instagram. He posted an illustrated image of Jackson with ice-blue cornrows against an arctic backdrop, captioned with what reads as either a verse or an obituary for the record itself.
“Neck broke from carrying the chain. Back broke from carrying the game. Records broken carry on my name. Carry on carry on.”
Billboard’s writeup of the milestone and the broader chart takeover places Drake now tied with Rihanna and Taylor Swift at 14 No. 1 singles overall. Mariah Carey remains the only solo artist ahead with 19. The Beatles lead the all-time count with 20.
Janice STFU debuted with 40.7 million opening-week streams. It’s Drake’s tenth No. 1 debut, a record he has built throughout the streaming era, and every chart-topper of his this decade has entered directly at the top.
The single is from Iceman, one of three Drake albums that dropped together on May 15. The Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour trifecta debuted at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 on the Billboard 200 dated May 30, making Drake the first artist ever to occupy all three positions simultaneously.
The Iceman album numbers are the biggest in the bunch. The record opened with 463,000 equivalent album units in its first week per Luminate. Habibti and Maid of Honour followed at 114,000 and 110,000 units respectively.
InMusicBlog’s breakdown of the chart records broken in a single tracking week catalogs the full damage. Drake placed nine songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, with only Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas at No. 5 breaking the streak.
The records are not just chart-positional. Drake logged 42 songs on this week’s Hot 100, surpassing Morgan Wallen’s single-week record of 37 set in May 2025. Forty of those entries were new debuts.
The bigger career milestone is the 400 mark. Drake’s all-time Hot 100 entry count now sits at 402, making him the first artist ever to cross that threshold. His total career top-10 hits sit at 90, well ahead of Taylor Swift’s 69.
Iceman also reshapes the album-level record book. With his 15th No. 1 album, Drake breaks his tie with Jay-Z for the most No. 1 Billboard 200 albums among rappers and R&B/hip-hop artists. Yahoo’s summary of the cross-format records places Drake tied with Taylor Swift for most No. 1 albums among all soloists, both still behind The Beatles at 19.
The release strategy of dropping three albums on a single day was unusual even by streaming-era standards. The Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour triple was rolled out through OVO Sound and Republic Records with limited pre-release marketing.
Drake’s last cycle of records was Morgan Wallen’s. The Wallen 37-entry mark from May 2025 stood for exactly one year before Drake’s 42 broke it.
For now, the count belongs to him.
