Drake and PartyNextDoor blast onto the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated March 1), thanks to the pair’s new collaborative album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.
The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 246,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (Feb. 14-20), according to Luminate. PartyNextDoor earns his first leader, while Drake adds his 14th, tying Jay-Z for the most among rappers. He also joins Jay-Z and Taylor Swift for the most No. 1s among soloists; among all acts, only the Beatles have more, with 19.
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All 21 songs from the project debut on the Hot 100, including two solo-billed Drake tracks in the top 10: “Gimme a Hug” (No. 6) and “Nokia” (No. 10). Below is a recap.
Rank, Artist Billing, Title:
- No. 6, Drake, “Gimme a Hug”
- No. 10, Drake, “Nokia”
- No. 18, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “CN Tower”
- No. 21, PartyNextDoor, Drake & Yebba, “Die Trying”
- No. 26, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Something About You”
- No. 29, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Moth Balls”
- No. 30, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Somebody Loves Me”
- No. 31, PartyNextDoor, “Deeper”
- No. 35, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Spider-Man Superman”
- No. 37, Drake, “Crying in Chanel”
- No. 40, Drake, “Small Town Fame”
- No. 43, Drake, “Raining in Houston”
- No. 45, Pimmie, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Pimmie’s Dilemma”
- No. 47, Drake, “Brian Steel”
- No. 60, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Lasers”
- No. 63, PartyNextDoor, Drake & Chino Pacas, “Meet Your Padre”
- No. 66, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Celibacy”
- No. 70, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Greedy”
- No. 73, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “When He’s Gone”
- No. 74, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “OMW”
- No. 83, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Glorious”
Thanks to 20 new entries on the chart (one song, “Deeper,” is credited solely to PartyNextDoor), Drake extends several of his historic records on the Hot 100, spanning the chart’s 66-year history:
Most Hot 100 Hits: 358
Most Top 10 Hits: 80
Most Top 20 Hits: 139
Most Top 40 Hits: 216
Most Top 10 Debuts: 64
Most Top 20 Debuts: 115
Most Top 40 Debuts: 182
Most Cumulative Weeks Spent in the Top 10 (all titles combined): 389
Meanwhile, thanks to her appearance on “Pimmie’s Dilemma,” Pimmie earns her first career entry on Billboard’s charts. Pimmie is, notably, the only vocalist on the cut. The unsigned Houston singer-songwriter has released 10 solo songs, including her debut six-track EP, Bittersweet, in February 2024.
Plus, Yebba scores her third Hot 100 hit via her billing on “Die Trying.” She previously charted with another Drake collab, “Yebba’s Heartbreak” (No. 24 peak in 2021), and as featured on Ed Sheeran’s “Best Part of Me” (No. 99, 2019).
