Drake is having the best week ever, and it’s only Monday.
Yesterday, the official first-week numbers for his latest album, Views, began to leak out, and word quickly spread that Drizzy had achieved the first platinum first-week of his career. (Views‘ officially tallied 1.045 album equivalents–thanks in part to a record 250 million streams–during the week of its release).
Today, he’s achieved another milestone: a solo #1 record. Per Chart News, “One Dance” overtakes Desiigner‘s “Panda” for the #1 spot on this week’s chart, making it the first Drake song to ever become a Billboard Hot 100 chart topper. He’d come close before with “Hotline Bling” and “Best I Ever Had,” but could never get over the hump. Infamously, this past November, “Hotline Bling”‘s spirited efforts were thwarted by Adele‘s surprise comeback single, which shattered just about every single record in existence.
Billboard Hot 100: #1(+1) One Dance, @Drake Feat. @wizkidayo & @Kylaofficial [5 weeks]. *Drake’s 1st #1 single as a lead act; 3rd overall*
— Chart News (@chartnews) May 9, 2016
Wait. Another one. Not only did Drake get his first solo #1, but 20 of his songs are simultaneously charting on the Billboard Hot 100, a spectacular record. Only one song from Views, the Majid Jordan-executed “Summer’s Over Interlude”–didn’t chart, but Drizzy still got that 20th placement due to a modest “Summer Sixteen” resurgence. That tally pushes Drake past Elvis Presley for 2nd all-time, where he currently sits behind his mentor, Lil Wayne, trailing by 7 songs.
.@Drake charts 20 songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 this week — a new all-time record.
— Chart News (@chartnews) May 9, 2016
Men w/ the most Hot 100 hits: @LilTunechi 130 | @Drake 123 | @ElvisPresley 108 | James Brown 91 | @S_C_ 83 | @chrisbrown 78 | @kanyewest 75.
— Chart News (@chartnews) May 9, 2016
Women w/ the most Hot 100 entries: @ArethaFranklin 73 | @taylorswift13 69 | @NICKIMINAJ 66 | @Madonna 57 | Dionne Warwick 56 | @rihanna 54.
— Chart News (@chartnews) May 9, 2016
