A Drake song built on a country hit is now sitting at No. 1 on US Apple Music. “Solar Eclipse,” his latest team up with Don Toliver, borrows from Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” and early projections have it debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
For Toliver, that number carries real weight. If the projection holds, “Solar Eclipse” becomes his first ever top five hit, a ceiling he hasn’t cracked until now.
Drake is looking at the same chart from a very different altitude. A No. 5 debut would hand him his 48th top five entry, adding another line to one of the longest scorecards in Hot 100 history.
The song landed October 2 as part of HABIBTI (FOMO), the deluxe edition of Drake’s eleventh studio album. HABIBTI first arrived in May, and Drake kept the summer busy with ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR.
The deluxe pushes the tracklist from 11 songs to 15. Most of the new material isn’t exactly new to diehards, since it first surfaced in FOMO, a short film Drake funded himself and premiered during a YouTube livestream on September 15.
That film, set around Toronto, worked like an extended trailer. Fans got an early listen to unreleased tracks, then spent the following weeks asking for official versions, which built a ready audience by the time the deluxe dropped.
Toliver shows up more than once in the expansion. Beyond “Solar Eclipse,” he appears on “Cold Shoulder,” which also brings in Yebba, while Drake handles the solo cut “Quebec” and stretches an original album track into “Classic PT2.”
The country interpolation is the part people will keep talking about. Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” was already a smash in its own lane, and folding it into a Drake and Toliver record gives the song a hook that plenty of listeners already know by heart.
That crossover pull may explain why “Solar Eclipse” has jumped ahead of everything else on the deluxe. Lots of bonus tracks fade after release week, but this one has turned into the clear breakout of the batch.
There’s still a gap between a projection and an official chart position. Streaming numbers can move in the final days of a tracking week, and competition from other releases can shift a debut by a spot or two in either direction.
For now, the Apple Music top spot gives Drake and Toliver a strong starting point. Billboard’s official Hot 100 will settle where “Solar Eclipse” actually lands, and Toliver’s first top five is sitting right there within reach.
