“ICEMAN” Stays Locked At Quantity One Whereas Drake Occupies 12 Billboard 200 Spots
Drake’s “ICEMAN” stays locked at primary for its fourth week straight on the Billboard 200.
Drake remains to be working the charts with ICEMAN locked in at primary for its fourth straight week on the Billboard 200.
The album pulled in 133,000 equal items within the monitoring week ending June 11, which marks a 22 p.c dip from the earlier week, however that’s not stopping the momentum.
In line with Billboard, the mission earned 132,000 streaming equal items that translated to 135.82 million on-demand official streams, practically 500 album gross sales, and the rest in monitor equal albums.
What makes this run much more ridiculous is the context behind it. Drake didn’t simply drop one album on Might 15, 2026.
He launched three concurrently: ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR, a complete of 43 tracks that broke streaming information throughout the board.
ICEMAN debuted at primary with 463,000 equal items, whereas HABIBTI landed at quantity two and MAID OF HONOUR at quantity three, making Drake the primary artist ever to occupy the highest three positions on the Billboard 200 in the identical week.
The companion albums have held their very own in subsequent weeks.
HABIBTI fell to quantity seven with 53,000 items in its second week, down 53 p.c, whereas MAID OF HONOUR dropped to quantity eight with 42,000 items, down 62 p.c.
Even with these declines, Drake’s received 12 albums concurrently charting on the Billboard 200, a degree of dominance that’s onerous to even comprehend.
ICEMAN and its four-week run on the high put it in uncommon firm. The final album to spend its first 4 weeks at primary was Taylor Swift’s The Lifetime of a Showgirl, which ultimately logged 12 weeks whole on the summit.
Earlier than that, Travis Scott’s Utopia was the final Hip-Hop mission to drag off that feat again in 2023.
Of Drake’s 15 number-one albums, solely three have spent extra time on the high than ICEMAN at the moment has. His 2016 album Views holds the document with 13 weeks at primary, whereas Scorpion and Licensed Lover Boy every logged 5 weeks.
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