Drake released the official video for Solar Eclipse on October 6, 2026, through DrakeVEVO, giving his collaboration with Don Toliver a standalone visual after it first appeared inside his FOMO short film. A companion video for Cold Shoulder, the other Don Toliver collaboration on the same expanded album, arrived the same day, with Yebba joining Drake and Toliver on that track.
The video is the latest step in a rollout that has run from a film premiere to streaming to a chart hit in less than a month. Solar Eclipse reached streaming on October 2, 2026, as part of HABIBTI (FOMO), the expanded edition of Drake’s HABIBTI album. The set runs to 24 songs and one hour and 17 minutes, and its four new tracks are Solar Eclipse featuring Don Toliver, Quebec, Classic PT2, and Cold Shoulder featuring Don Toliver and Yebba. The video turns the most successful of the four into a watchable record of its own, rather than leaving it inside a longer film.
Drake Solar Eclipse Video: From Choosin Texas to Streaming
The song’s origin is a country record. Solar Eclipse reworks Ella Langley’s Choosin Texas, a song that spent an extended run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Drake first played Choosin Texas while DJing at a Houston nightclub in July 2026, and Langley answered on TikTok by lip syncing his Lil Wayne collaboration HYFR. Drake commented on her post with two words, Goated Pen, and was then seen at her show in Little Rock, Arkansas, in August. Billboard Canada reported that he played Solar Eclipse during a DJ set in Toronto on August 30, and the full version surfaced inside FOMO, the short film Drake premiered on a YouTube livestream on September 15.
Production on the track was handled by Noel Cadastre, who produced, mixed and recorded the song, and the writing team includes Drake, Don Toliver, Cadastre and Langley among others. The label is OVO under exclusive licence to Republic Records. The audio runs three minutes and 39 seconds, and the video, uploaded by DrakeVEVO, presents Drake and Toliver performing the song together, turning a film sequence into a standalone clip that listeners can find without replaying the full project.
The Chart Story Behind the Video
Solar Eclipse debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Drake his record extending 91st Top 10 hit on the chart and giving Don Toliver his highest charting song to date, according to coverage of the debut. Reporting at the time of the chart run put the song at 18 million streams on Spotify alone, and the track also reached No. 5 on Apple Music’s Top 100 in South Africa. Those numbers explain why the video mattered. This was not a deep cut getting a visual as an afterthought. It was the breakout song of the expanded edition, and the video arrived while the chart run was still fresh.
The Texas writing is the other reason the song travelled. Drake and Toliver namecheck College Station, River Oaks, Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands, Fort Bend and Katy across the verses, and the lyrics also reference former Texas A and M quarterback Johnny Manziel. Toliver, who is from the Houston area, carries the Texas theme into the chorus, and the title itself comes from a Drake line about a solar eclipse arriving the next morning. The lyric that fans quoted most in the first week of the chart run was the Fort Bend couplet.
Fort Bend, Texas, Katy, Texas, bae, I can not make this up. She is from Texas, I can tell.
That couplet works because it is specific. Drake’s recent writing has often worked best when it names places rather than gesturing at them, and Solar Eclipse is built almost entirely from place names, car interiors and Houston imagery. The video keeps that focus, putting the two performers at the centre rather than building a large narrative around them.
What the Video Does for HABIBTI
The video strategy also tells a story about how Drake is releasing music in 2026. He released three albums in May, ICEMAN, MAID OF HONOUR and HABIBTI, then premiered FOMO as a film in September, then separated the film’s key songs into streaming tracks on October 2, then gave two of them standalone videos on October 6. Each step gave the same material a second audience: film viewers, streamers, chart watchers and now video viewers. Cold Shoulder, with Yebba’s vocal beside Drake and Toliver, benefits from the same treatment, and the pair of videos together make the expanded edition feel like a finished chapter rather than a set of bonus tracks.
For Canadian listeners, the Quebec track on the same edition and the Toronto DJ set where Solar Eclipse was previewed keep the story grounded at home, even as the song itself looks south to Texas. Drake’s 2026 has been defined by volume, but Solar Eclipse shows the other half of the method. A country interpolation, a Houston collaborator, a film preview and a standalone video, each released in order, turned one song into a Top 5 hit and now into a video that will keep circulating long after the chart week ends. Watch the Solar Eclipse video below, and the Cold Shoulder visual alongside it, to see the full HABIBTI (FOMO) picture.
