{"id":605999,"date":"2026-05-27T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605999\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:34:10","slug":"drake-beats-michael-jacksons-record-for-most-no-1s-by-male-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605999\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Beats Michael Jackson’s Record for Most No. 1s by Male Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDrake has broken the record<\/a> previously held by Michael Jackson<\/a> for most No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> by a solo male artist as \u201cJanice STFU\u201d bows atop the chart following the release of his trio of albums.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith that accomplishment, Drake<\/a> now ties Rihanna and Taylor Swift for most No. 1s across all acts with 14 chart toppers. The only other artists ahead of them are Mariah Carey with 19 and the Beatles with 20.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, Drake beats Morgan Wallen\u2019s record from 2025 for earning the most entries in a single week on the chart with 42 songs. Wallen previously lodged 37 song entries, breaking his previous record of 36 entries in a single week. Wallen also tied Taylor Swift\u2019s record for third-most entries, as they both had 32 songs bow on the chart in 2025 and 2024, respectively. (For reference, Drake\u2019s previous record for most entries in a single week was in 2018 with 27 tracks.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAcross the top 10, Drake occupies nine of the slots, save for Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d which hangs on at No. 5. With that, he extends his record total career count to 90 songs to hit the top 10. He also becomes the first act ever to amass more than 400 career entries on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\n\tDrake is riding high off the success of his trio of albums \u2014 \u201cIceman,\u201d \u201cMaid of Honour\u201d and \u201cHabibti\u201d \u2014 that he released on May 15. The rapper had been teasing the \u201cIceman\u201d album for nearly two years, debuting songs via various livestreams before they ended up on DSPs. In his fourth livestream, just hours before \u201cIceman\u201d was set to release, he revealed that two more surprise albums (\u201cMaid of Honour\u201d and \u201cHabibti\u201d) would also be released.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the weekend, \u201cIceman,\u201d \u201cHabibti\u201d and \u201cMaid of Honour\u201d made chart history as they debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively. \u201cIceman\u201d earned 463,000 equivalent album units and secured his 15th chart-topper, besting Jay-Z\u2019s previous record for most No. 1s among solo men and R&B\/hip-hop artists. Drake also tied Taylor Swift for most No. 1s among solo acts, only behind the Beatles with their record 19 No. 1s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake has broken the record previously held by Michael Jackson for most No. 1s on the Billboard Hot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74065,222,96,15741,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billboard-hot-100","tag-drake","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-jackson","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605999","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=605999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}