Canadian artist Drake becomes the first artist ever to hold the top three spots on the Billboard 200 charts simultaneously. <\/p>\n
TORONTO \u2014 Drake once said he \u201cstarted from the bottom,\u201d but this week he\u2019s occupying the entire top floor of the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n
The Toronto rapper has rewritten music history by becoming the first artist to claim the top three spots on Billboard\u2019s top 200 album chart, the company announced Sunday.<\/p>\n
His trilogy of albums \u2014 \u201cIceman,\u201d \u201cHabibti\u201d and \u201cMaid of Honour\u201d \u2014 debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the chart dated May 30.<\/p>\n
With \u201cIceman,\u201d Drake also notched his 15th No. 1 album, moving past Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among solo male and R&B\/hip-hop artists, and tying him with Taylor Swift for the most No. 1s among solo artists. Only The Beatles sit ahead overall, with a record 19 No. 1 albums.<\/p>\n
\u201cIceman\u201d enters the chart with 463,000 equivalent album units, followed by \u201cHabibti\u201d with 114,000 and \u201cMaid of Honour\u201d with 110,000.<\/p>\n
A day after Drake\u2019s three-album drop, both Spotify and Apple Music revealed the rapper became their most-streamed artist in a single day of 2026.<\/p>\n
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Drake performs during a concert by Vybz Kartel at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan Drake performs during a concert by Vybz Kartel at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan <\/p>\n
The releases mark Drake\u2019s first solo albums since his high-profile feud with Kendrick Lamar, with lyrical references to the beef scattered across tracks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIceman\u201d arrived after nearly a year of Drake teasing its release, including a stunt last month in which he erected a massive ice-block installation in a downtown Toronto parking lot, hiding the album\u2019s drop date inside.<\/p>\n
He launched the project on May 15 by lighting up Toronto\u2019s CN Tower in an icy blue glow, while also surprise-releasing the companion albums the same night.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian artist Drake becomes the first artist ever to hold the top three spots on the Billboard 200…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[76,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-693431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}