It's been a very good few weeks to be Drake. The Toronto superstar has smashed one of music's most coveted streaming milestones while his album ICEMAN refuses to budge from the top of the charts — and the numbers involved are genuinely staggering.
The Spotify Milestone Nobody Saw Coming This Fast
On 12 June, Drake officially surpassed 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify for the first time, becoming only the second rapper in history to reach the landmark figure. The only other MC to have done so is Kendrick Lamar, who crossed the threshold during his headline-grabbing 2025 run and peaked at 112 million monthly listeners. Beyond hip-hop, Drake now sits in rarefied company alongside the likes of Bruno Mars — who holds the all-time record at a peak of more than 150 million monthly listeners — and Ariana Grande, who leads among female artists at a reported 146 million.
The milestone is directly tied to the runaway success of ICEMAN, which has powered some of the biggest commercial numbers of the year. When the album dropped, it debuted with 450.4 million global Spotify streams in its opening tracking week ending 21 May — the second-largest streaming week of 2026, trailing only BTS's ARIRANG, which opened with more than 525 million streams. ICEMAN also finished as Spotify's most-streamed album worldwide during its debut frame.
ICEMAN's Place in History
The numbers put ICEMAN firmly among the biggest streaming launches ever recorded. The album posted the 13th-largest opening week in Spotify history. Within rap specifically, only four albums have ever opened bigger: Travis Scott — Utopia (456 million streams), Playboi Carti — Music (490 million streams), Drake — Certified Lover Boy (497 million streams), Drake — Scorpion (559 million streams — the genre benchmark).
Remarkably, Drake himself holds two of those four records, which says everything you need to know about his standing as a streaming era artist.
Billboard 200: Three Weeks Down, Four in Sight
On the Billboard 200, ICEMAN has already clocked three consecutive weeks at number one — earning 171,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the week ending 4 June, according to data from Luminate. A whopping 170,000 of those units came from streaming alone, fuelled by more than 174 million on-demand streams in a single week.
"ICEMAN is one of five Drake albums to spend at least three weeks atop the Billboard 200, and his first release to do so since Certified Lover Boy logged five weeks at No. 1 in 2021."
Projections from Hits Daily Double suggest the album is on course for a fourth straight week at the summit, with roughly 137,000 equivalent album units expected for the latest tracking period. If confirmed, it would further cement ICEMAN as one of Drake's most commercially dominant projects to date.
The rest of the Billboard 200 top ten offered little serious competition. Ella Langley's Dandelion held steady at number two with 93,000 units, while Morgan Wallen's I'm The Problem climbed to number three with 83,000. Paul McCartney's The Boys of Dungeon Lane made a respectable debut at number five with 63,000 units — and Drake even managed to place a second album in the top ten, with Habibti landing at number ten. For fans of music chart news, it's the kind of dominance that hasn't been seen in quite some time.
Whether Drake can stretch the run to five weeks — matching Certified Lover Boy's 2021 achievement — remains to be seen, but right now there is precious little on the horizon that looks capable of knocking him off his perch.
