Drake has returned to number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with Habibti, dated October 17. The climb gives the Toronto artist a record 17th chart topping album in Canada, two clear of Celine Dion and Taylor Swift.
The story starts in May, when Habibti first arrived as one of three albums Drake released on the same day, alongside Iceman and Maid of Honour. Iceman took the early attention and the Canadian number one at that time, while Habibti was treated as the quieter record in the trio. Five months later, a four song expansion changed the picture completely, and the album that looked settled in the catalogue is now leading the country again.
How the FOMO expansion changed the chart
The expanded edition, Habibti (FOMO), arrived on streaming services on October 2, 2026. It added four tracks to the original eleven, taking the total to fifteen. Billboard counts an expanded edition as the same album, so streams for the original songs and the new songs combine into one chart total. That rule matters here, because the new material did not just perform on its own. It pulled listeners back through the whole record.
In the United States, the effect was sharp. The album jumped from number 116 to number 2 on the Billboard 200, earning 71,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week, an increase of more than 500 percent from the week before. Streaming accounted for nearly all of that total. In Canada, the same surge pushed Habibti all the way to number one on the chart dated October 17, completing a run from deep in the catalogue back to the top in a single week.
That kind of move is now a central part of how major albums work. A release is no longer a single moment. It can be a film, a livestream, a deluxe edition and a run of standalone videos, each one giving the audience a new reason to return. Drake used every one of those steps in this rollout, and the chart result shows how effective the sequence can be when the songs connect.
Inside the four new songs
The four additions are Solar Eclipse with Don Toliver, Quebec, Cold Shoulder featuring Don Toliver and Yebba, and Classic PT2, an extended version of a track that first appeared on Habibti in May. All four first surfaced inside FOMO, the short film Drake premiered on a YouTube livestream on September 15. Fans heard the music inside the film weeks before they could stream it on its own, which built a ready audience for the October 2 release.
Solar Eclipse became the clearest entry point. The song interpolates Ella Langley Choosin Texas, a country record with its own major chart history, and reworks that hook into a hip hop and R and B setting. Drake released a standalone video for Solar Eclipse on October 6, four days after the streaming release. The song debuted at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, gave Don Toliver his highest charting song to date, and extended Drake record for the most top 10 hits in Hot 100 history to 91 entries. It also opened at number one on Hot R and B and Hip Hop Songs.
I EPd this whole album, bro. It just helps me know where I am going with the music.
That line from Don Toliver, speaking to GQ about his own album Octane, helps explain why his presence across this expansion feels deliberate rather than decorative. Toliver appears on both Solar Eclipse and Cold Shoulder, and his melodic delivery gives the new section of Habibti a consistent second voice. Quebec takes a different route as a solo Drake record with a title that speaks directly to a Canadian audience, while Classic PT2 rewards listeners who stayed with the original May release by returning to familiar material in a longer form.
What the Canadian Hot 100 showed
The album chart was only part of the result. All four new songs landed on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 dated October 17. Quebec debuted at number 5, Solar Eclipse at number 6 and Cold Shoulder at number 7, giving Drake three top 10 entries from the expansion in the same week. Classic PT2 re entered at number 17. In total, Drake held nine songs on the chart.
Older Habibti tracks also moved. WNBA re entered at number 65 and I am Spent at number 69, a sign that listeners were not only sampling the new songs and leaving. They were playing the album as a whole again. That full album listening is what turns a deluxe edition from a short news cycle into a number one album. The new songs opened the door, and the catalogue walked through it with them.
There is also a home market point that should not be lost. Drake has spent years as a global streaming force, with records that travel far beyond Canada on release week. A Canadian number one still carries a different kind of weight. It is a Toronto artist leading the chart in his own country with a record that names Quebec in its new tracklist and premiered its film with Toronto front and centre. The local references are not background detail in this rollout. They are part of the reason the record resonates at home.
Why this record matters for the album era
Seventeen Canadian number one albums is a record that puts distance between Drake and two of the biggest album artists of the modern era. When Iceman arrived, it broke a tie with Celine Dion and Taylor Swift for the most chart topping albums in Canada. Habibti returning to number one now moves Drake two clear of both. The list behind that total runs from Thank Me Later in 2010 through Views, Certified Lover Boy and For All The Dogs, a span that covers more than a decade and a half of changing formats, from sales driven weeks to a chart now powered mainly by streaming.
For other artists watching, the lesson is practical. Timing matters as much as volume. Drake waited five months, let the film create demand, then released four songs that each had a clear role. One carried a country interpolation with crossover reach. One spoke directly to Canada by name. One paired Toliver with Yebba for a different texture. One connected back to the original album. That is not a random bundle of leftovers. It is a structured second launch.
Habibti is back at number one in Canada, and the FOMO expansion is the reason. Whether Drake adds more to this album or moves to the next project, the pattern is now proven again on home soil. An album in 2026 is never really finished while the artist still has strong songs, a film audience and a reason for listeners to come back.
