{"id":598442,"date":"2026-05-22T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598442\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:28:09","slug":"drakes-surprise-three-album-drop-makes-uk-official-chart-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598442\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake’s surprise three-album drop makes UK Official Chart history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drake displays a mixture of musical styles in the three new albums<\/a> – with Iceman being more rap and hip-hop focused.<\/p>\n

Habibti leans more towards R&B, while Maid of Honour is dance music-inspired.<\/p>\n

And reviews of the rapper’s latest offerings have been mixed. <\/p>\n

The Independent says Drake “continues to be his own worst enemy”, external<\/a>, with some of his best work “obscured by the bad”. <\/p>\n

But Rolling Stone was more positive, saying parts of his new material , external<\/a>are “confident” and “joyous”. <\/p>\n

He also appears to reignite his bitter feud with Kendrick Lamar, something which music journalist Mary Mandefield says is no surprise. <\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat last week, she described Drake as a “smart businessman, as well as a great musician”.<\/p>\n

“It would have been a massive miss to have three albums and not to mention Kendrick at all,” she said.<\/p>\n

Not as much luck for Drake in the official singles chart though, as Olivia Dean and Sam Fender’s Rein My In stays at number one for a 12th week.<\/p>\n

He does have three songs in the top 10 though – Janice STFU, National Treasure and Make Them Cry – taking his career tally to 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake displays a mixture of musical styles in the three new albums – with Iceman being more rap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}