Drake knocked himself off the top of the chart to make history. HABIBTI jumped from No. 35 to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart dated October 17, replacing his own ICEMAN and giving him an 18th leader on the tally.
That number puts him alone at the top. Future and the Temptations each sit at 17, Billboard confirmed, so Drake now owns outright a record the Motown group held or shared for 60 years.
The Temptations first claimed the mark in July 1966 with their third chart topper, “Gettin’ Ready.” They pushed it to 17 with “A Song For You” in May 1975.
Drake’s path looks very different. For the tracking week ending October 8, HABIBTI pulled in 71,000 U.S. album equivalent units, up 506%, and nearly 70,000 of those came from streaming.
Billboard also combines every edition of an album into one chart total, so the newly expanded version counts toward the same entry.
That expansion lit the fuse. HABIBTI (FOMO) brought four songs from Drake’s “FOMO” film to streaming services, taking the album to 15 tracks.
“Solar Eclipse” pairs him with Don Toliver over a reworking of Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas.” “Cold Shoulder” brings Toliver back alongside Yebba, while “Quebec” and “Classic PT2” round things out, the latter extending a song from the original tracklist.
Fans first heard those songs in “FOMO,” the film Drake paid for himself and premiered online in September. He told listeners some of the music would land on streaming platforms but warned the full soundtrack might never arrive, so the expansion gives at least part of it an official home.
The climb also settles some unfinished business from the spring. Drake announced HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR during the fourth installment of his ICEMAN livestream, then dropped all three albums together on May 15. At the time, ICEMAN kept HABIBTI from reaching No. 1.
Those releases were his first solo albums since 2023’s For All The Dogs. Now the one that started as the runner up has taken the crown from its sibling.
It is the first time an act replaced itself at No. 1 on the chart since Future and Metro Boomin traded places with their two joint albums in May 2024. Future, the artist Drake just passed, was part of that last swap.
The rebound reached the all genre chart too. HABIBTI rose from No. 116 to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, back inside the top 10 months after release.
The Temptations built their total across the vinyl era, long before streams counted toward anything, and their mark lasted six decades before Drake moved past it.
Future sits one release away from pulling level again, and with more “FOMO” music still unreleased, Drake may have a few more cards left to play.
