Drake sets record with 18th No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

HABIBTI climbed from No. 35 to No. 1 on the chart dated Oct. 17 after the Oct. 2 release of HABIBTI (FOMO), a deluxe edition with four added songs, Billboard reported. The album earned 71,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the Oct. 2-8 tracking week, according to Luminate, up 506% from the prior week.

The 18th No. 1 breaks a three-way tie with Future and The Temptations, who each have 17, Billboard reported. The Temptations had held or shared the record since July 1966, when their Gettin' Ready album made them the first act with three No. 1s on the ranking. They extended it with each later leader until their 17th, A Song for You, in May 1975. Future matched 17 in July when The Real Me debuted at No. 1. The Temptations built their total in the vinyl era, before streams counted toward the chart.

HABIBTI ousts ICEMAN from No. 1. It is the first time an act has replaced itself at the top since May 2024, when Future and Metro Boomin's We Don't Trust You yielded to the pair's We Still Don't Trust You, according to Billboard. ICEMAN, which HABIBTI replaced, has spent 14 weeks at No. 1, two more than Take Care's 12.

The leaderboard behind the record

Drake has 18 No. 1 albums on the chart. Future and The Temptations follow with 17 each. JAY-Z has 14, Ye has 13, R. Kelly has 12, Eminem and Lil Wayne have 11 apiece, and Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, the Isley Brothers, Nas and Stevie Wonder have 10 each. The gap from Drake to JAY-Z in third is four No. 1s.

Billboard says the chart launched in January 1965 and now ranks releases using equivalent album units, which combine album sales, streaming activity and track sales. Drake's first No. 1 on the list was Thank Me Later in July 2010.

How the deluxe edition moved HABIBTI

HABIBTI (FOMO) added four songs to the album's original 11-song track list: Solar Eclipse with Don Toliver, Quebec, Cold Shoulder with Don Toliver and Yebba, and Classic Pt 2. All versions of the album are combined for chart data, Billboard said.

The 71,000-unit week was below the 114,000 units HABIBTI opened with in May, when it debuted at No. 2 behind ICEMAN. It peaked at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart, The News reported.