Most simultaneous Top 10 entries on the US singles chart (male)

On the Billboard Hot 100 dated 18 September 2021, Drake (Canada, b. Aubrey Drake Graham) occupied an incredible nine of the Top 10 chart positions: “Way 2 Sexy” (feat. Future & Young Thug, No.1); “Girls Want Girls” (feat. Lil Baby, No.2); “Fair Trade” (feat. Travis Scott, No.3); “Champagne Poetry” (No.4); “Knife Talk” (feat. 21 Savage & Project Pat, No.5); “In the Bible” (feat. Lil Durk & Giveon, No.7); “Papi’s Home” (No.8); “TSU” (No.9); and “Love All” (feat. Jay-Z, No.10). All nine tracks were new entries and taken from the rapper’s sixth studio LP Certified Lover Boy, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 in the same week with 613,000 album-equivalent units (including 562,000 streaming units, or 743.7 million on-demand streams of the album’s 21 tracks).

In total, Drake debuted all 21 tracks from Certified Lover Boy on the Hot 100 on 18 September 2021, with “No Friends in the Industry” (No.11), “N 2 Deep” (feat. Future, No.12), “Pipe Down” (No.14), “7am on Bridal Path” (No.16), “Race My Mind” (No.18), “IMY2” (feat. Kid Cudi, No.22), “Yebba’s Heartbreak” (feat. Yebba, No.24), “You Only Live Twice” (feat. Lil Wayne & Rick Ross, No.25), “Fountains” (feat. Tems, No.26), “Get Along Better” (feat. Ty Dolla $ign, No.27), “Fucking Fans” (No.32) and “The Remorse” (No.35) completing the biggest chart monopoly in the history of the Hot 100.

At No.6, “Stay”, the former No.1 by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, was the only Top 10 entry on 18 September 2021 not credited to Drake, while Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” (No.13), Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” (No.15) and “Butter” by BTS (No.17), the previous week’s chart-topper, were all shunted down the pecking order by Drake’s Hot 100 onslaught.

Drake beat his own record of seven simultaneous Top 10s, set on 14 July 2018 when tracks from his previous album Scorpion occupied positions 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 on the Hot 100. Four of those hits were new entries. The Beatles had held the honour before Drake when they famously locked down the entire US Top 5 on 4 April 1964.

By debuting nine tracks in the Top 10, Drake also smashed the Hot 100 record for the most Top 10s from one album, breaking a four-way tie between Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982), Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. (1984), Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) and his own Scorpion (2018) – albums that all placed seven songs in the Top 10.

Furthermore, Drake extended his records for most Hot 100 entries (258), most Top 10 entries (54), most Top 10 debuts (39) and most Top 40 hits (143) while becoming the first solo artist to occupy the entire Top 5 simultaneously and the first act to simultaneously debut in positions 1-5 – extending his Top 3 record from 20 March 2021 (“What’s Next” at No.1, “Wants and Needs” at No.2 and “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” at No.3).

“Way 2 Sexy” was Drake’s fifth No.1 debut on the Hot 100 (after “God’s Plan”, “Nice for What”, “Toosie Slide” and “What’s Next”), matching Ariana Grande’s record total.