Drake doesn’t just hold the record for the biggest Spotify year by a rapper. According to streaming trackers, he owns the entire top five, and the newest entry isn’t even finished yet.
As of mid November 2026, Drake has pulled in 18.9 billion Spotify streams across all credits this year. That clears his previous annual high of 18.4 billion, which he set just last year.
The full ranking reads like a personal leaderboard. After 2026 and 2025 come 2023 with 17.6 billion, 2024 with 15.5 billion and 2022 with 13.4 billion, so no other rapper has cracked the top five.
The numbers were shared by NFR Podcast on November 14, 2026, with the current tally flagged as “In Progress.” The 2026 figure can only climb from here.
Billboard’s charts tell a similar story. ICEMAN gave Drake his 15th No. 1 on the Billboard 200, pushing him past JAY-Z’s total. Then ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR debuted in the top three spots at the same time, something that had never happened before.
The Hot 100 got crowded too. Drake set a single week record with 42 entries and became the first artist to reach 400 career appearances on the chart.
“Janice STFU” gave him his 14th No. 1, the most among solo men. HABIBTI became his 18th leader on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and “God’s Plan” was certified Double Diamond.
Not everybody saw this coming. There was a stretch where plenty of people were ready to write Drake off, and his commercial run in 2026 has flipped that story on its head.
Quincy, the creator of Ratings Game Music, put it plainly. People were ready to close the book on Drake, and he responded by filling more pages in the record books,” he wrote, adding that Drake has his MVP vote in hip hop this year.
He also made a point that cuts right into the debate around Drake right now. “Not every release has to be your favorite for you to acknowledge that the audience is still showing up in ridiculous numbers,” he wrote.
That’s the tension fans and critics keep circling. One camp sees the streams as proof that Drake is still the center of gravity in rap, while another separates raw consumption from how much the music actually lands.
Still, the listening data is hard to argue with. Five years at the top of the list, stretching from 2022 through 2026, point to a fan base that keeps coming back no matter what the discourse says.
The open question is where 2026 finally lands. With weeks still left on the calendar, 18.9 billion looks more like a checkpoint than a finish line.
