Drake has passed 17 billion Spotify streams in 2026 while HABIBTI returns to No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The Toronto artist now holds that chart record alone, with 18 career leaders after breaking a tie with Future and The Temptations.
The numbers arrived together in the tracking week after the October 2 release of HABIBTI (FOMO), a four track deluxe edition that added Solar Eclipse featuring Don Toliver, Quebec, Classic PT2 and Cold Shoulder featuring Don Toliver and Yebba. A project that had been sitting at No. 116 on the Billboard 200 jumped to No. 2. On the Canadian Albums chart, HABIBTI also reached No. 1, pushing Drake to 17 No. 1 projects at home. For an artist nearly two decades into his mainstream run, this was not a quiet catalog week. It was a full chart reset driven by new music.
The Deluxe That Moved The Album
The scale of the jump explains why the deluxe matters here. HABIBTI earned 71,000 equivalent album units in the October 2 to 8 tracking week in one chart report, a rise described at more than 500 percent from the week before, and the album climbed on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart to the top position. Four songs did that work. Instead of treating the added tracks as leftovers, Drake sequenced a compact second wave around collaborations and a clear lead single, then gave that lead single its own video on his official YouTube channel on October 6.
That sequencing is a useful lesson in how albums live now. A May release can return in October if the new material gives listeners a reason to replay the whole project, not only the additions. HABIBTI was one of three albums Drake released at once in May, alongside ICEMAN, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and MAID OF HONOUR, which peaked at No. 3. The joint album with PARTYNEXTDOOR from February 2025 had already topped the Billboard 200 before that run. Volume alone does not guarantee attention. In this case, the deluxe connected back to a specific song, a specific video and a specific interpolation that people could recognize in seconds.
Solar Eclipse Leads The Run
Solar Eclipse is that connection point. The song is Drake and Don Toliver taking on Ella Langley and her country hit Choosin Texas, reshaping it with Houston references and a trap soul feel. Langley, Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor receive writing credit through the interpolation. Drake names College Station, River Oaks, Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands, Fort Bend and Katy in his verse, while Toliver, who is from the Houston area, carries the Texas thread through the chorus. The track also draws a line to Houston rap history through Bun B and Get Throwed.
On the charts, the song did more than start conversation. It reached No. 5 on the Hot 100 in reports on the deluxe, opened at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and gave Drake his 33rd leader on that chart. For Toliver, it was his first No. 1 on that chart. Drake previewed the record during his Fear of Missing Out livestream in September, performed the rollout in stages, then separated the song into a standalone video. Before the release, he told viewers on a livestream, in words reported by Just Jared:
All the songs you guys have been asking for. Well, not all of them, but enough of them, are coming on Thursday.
That staged path, preview to film to streaming to video, gave the same song three separate entry points for listeners.
A Catalog That Keeps Working
The 17 billion figure is not only about four new tracks. Reporting from DancehallMag, citing Hip Hop All Day for the October 15 streaming total, notes that Drake is on pace for the biggest hip hop streaming year of all time and is only the second artist in any genre to pass that mark in 2026. The Source reporting cited in that coverage puts him well ahead among rappers this year. Older albums remain part of the daily total, with Take Care, Views, Scorpion and Certified Lover Boy named as steady fixtures in rotation.
That catalog depth is the third angle in this story. First, there is the new deluxe and its immediate chart impact. Second, there is Solar Eclipse as a cross genre single that reached both pop and R&B/hip hop charts. Third, there is a back catalog that continues to stream at a level most new releases never reach. Put together, the three layers explain why a jump from No. 116 to No. 2 is possible without a brand new album. The audience was already listening every day. The deluxe gave that existing habit a new focus.
What It Means For Toronto
For Toronto, the Canadian Albums milestone matters as much as the United States records. Seventeen No. 1 projects on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart is a home country record built across very different eras of Drake career, from the early Take Care period through the streaming heavy 2020s and now a three album May and an October deluxe. It also keeps a Toronto artist at the center of the global hip hop conversation in a week when the headline numbers are about ownership of charts, not a one day viral clip.
There are still more than two months left in 2026 for that streaming total to grow, and HABIBTI (FOMO) remains the active project carrying the run. Whether Solar Eclipse holds its chart positions or another deluxe track takes over, the record is already set. Drake has 18 leaders on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, 17 leaders on the Canadian Albums chart, and more than 17 billion Spotify streams in a single calendar year. That is the story in full, and it is a Toronto story first.
