A three-album release puts Drake at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 on the Billboard 200, a first since the chart began weekly publication in 1956, though a technicality kept Michael Jackson from the same feat.
Drake has become the first artist to occupy the top three positions of the Billboard 200 in the same week since the chart switched to a consistent weekly schedule in 1956. The record follows his May 15 triple release of the albums Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour. Billboard confirmed the chart placement this week.
The feat carries a footnote. In 2009, Michael Jackson should have held the top three spots after his death based on unit counts, but a Billboard rule at the time blocked albums older than 18 months from appearing on the weekly chart. Jackson’s sweep was never counted. Drake’s Iceman cover, which features Jackson’s bejeweled glove, nods at the overlap.
The three albums are Drake’s first solo projects since 2023’s For All the Dogs and his first major release since the Kendrick Lamar rivalry peaked at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. That period also saw Drake sue his own label, UMG, a legal dispute he references across the new LPs. The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2025. He did drop a joint album with PartyNextDoor, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, earlier that year.
A triple drop is an unusual way to return to the foreground. The numbers show it worked, but the context is still settling. The chart dominance says something about consumption habits, but also about how an artist of Drake’s scale moves now, after a season of public friction, without needing to say it directly.
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