• Drake’s “Janice STFU” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, his 14th career chart-topper
• That breaks Michael Jackson’s record for most No. 1 hits by a solo male artist
• Drake now ties Rihanna and Taylor Swift for most No. 1s across all acts with 14
• He charted a record 42 songs on the Hot 100 in a single week and holds nine of the top 10
• His three new albums — ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR — debuted at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 simultaneously, a Billboard 200 first

Drake just did something no solo male artist has done in the 67-year history of the Billboard Hot 100. And then he did about five more things on top of it.

“Janice STFU” debuted at No. 1 this week, giving Drake his 14th career Hot 100 leader and breaking him out of a tie with Michael Jackson for the most No. 1 hits by a solo male artist in the chart’s history. He now ties Rihanna and Taylor Swift at 14 apiece across all acts. Only Mariah Carey (19) and the Beatles (20) have more.

The song drew 69.4 million streams and 3,000 sales worldwide in its first week, according to Luminate.

The Numbers Are Absurd

The No. 1 was just the headline. The full picture is staggering.

Drake charted a record 42 songs on the Hot 100 in a single week — all from his three new albums, ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR, which dropped May 15 on OVO Sound/Republic. That demolishes Morgan Wallen’s previous single-week record of 37 entries from last year. With 40 of those 42 being debuts, Drake also became the first artist ever to accumulate more than 400 career Hot 100 entries.

He occupies nine of the top 10 slots. The only song in the top 10 that isn’t his is Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas.”

On the Billboard 200 albums chart, ICEMAN debuted at No. 1 with 463,000 equivalent album units — the vast majority from streaming, pulling in over 462 million official on-demand streams. HABIBTI landed at No. 2 and MAID OF HONOUR at No. 3, making Drake the first artist in the chart’s 70-year history to hold the top three spots simultaneously.

That also pushed his career total to 15 No. 1 albums, surpassing Jay-Z for the most by a solo male artist and tying Taylor Swift among all solo acts.

What It Means

The records Drake broke this week span decades of chart history. He passed Michael Jackson, Jay-Z, and Morgan Wallen in a single chart cycle. He tied Taylor Swift and Rihanna. The only names still ahead of him on any list are Mariah Carey and the Beatles — and at 39, with three albums dropped in one night, he doesn’t appear to be slowing down.

On the Global 200, “Janice STFU” also debuted at No. 1, with Drake claiming eight of the top 10 globally. He joins BTS and Taylor Swift as the only artists to ever hold the chart’s top seven positions in a single week.

Fourteen No. 1s. Forty-two songs on the chart in one week. Three albums in the top three at once. Whatever the opposite of a quiet week is, Drake just had it.

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• Sabrina Carpenter celebrates her 27th birthday on May 11, 2026.
• She has scored six top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including two No. 1s.
• Carpenter won her first two Grammys in 2025 for Short n’ Sweet and \”Espresso.\”
• Her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, spawned the chart-topping single \”Manchild.\”
• She went from Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World to one of pop’s biggest global stars.

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Sabrina Carpenter is 27 today, and if the last two years are any indication, she’s just getting started.

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The pop star — who has racked up six top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, two Grammy wins, and a fanbase that hangs on her every lyric — is celebrating another birthday at the absolute peak of her powers. From “Espresso” to “Manchild,” Carpenter has spent the last couple of years rewriting what a mainstream pop breakthrough can look like: slow-built, sharply crafted, and completely undeniable once it arrives.

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From Maya Hart to Global Pop Star

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It’s easy to forget now, but Sabrina Carpenter spent years quietly building toward this moment. She first landed on the radar as Maya Hart on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World, the beloved Boy Meets World spinoff that ran from 2014 to 2017. She was a fan favorite from the jump — funny, sharp, magnetic on screen — and was already balancing acting with a music career that most people outside her fanbase hadn’t fully clocked yet.

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She released album after album — Eyes Wide Open, Evolution, Singular: Act I and Act II, Emails I Can’t Send — steadily evolving her sound and growing her audience, even as mainstream recognition stayed just out of reach. Songs like “Feather” and “Nonsense” from the Emails I Can’t Send era gave hints of what was coming. Then came 2024.

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The Short n’ Sweet Era That Changed Everything

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“Espresso” dropped as a pre-album single and peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100. That was just the opening act. “Please Please Please” and “Taste” followed, giving Carpenter her first and second No. 1s on the chart. Short n’ Sweet didn’t just perform — it dominated, and at the 2025 Grammys, it took home Best Pop Vocal Album while “Espresso” won Best Pop Solo Performance. Two Grammys. First time nominated.

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She also spent a chunk of that era opening for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour, which introduced her to arenas full of people who became instant converts. Swift later tapped her as a guest vocalist on “The Life of a Showgirl,” the title track from Swift’s project of the same name, which peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100 — adding yet another top 10 to Carpenter’s growing tally.

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Man’s Best Friend and the Manchild Moment

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Rather than coast, Carpenter came back in 2025 with her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, and lead single “Manchild” shot straight to No. 1. The album has continued to perform, with tracks like “House Tour” finding their own lives with fans. A Grammy nomination for the album is already in the mix.

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Six top 10s. Two No. 1s. Two Grammys. A world tour. A perfume line — the Sweet Tooth collection, with scents like Me Espresso and Cherry Baby — and a Funko Pop modeled after the “Manchild” music video, thumbs-up pose and all. She is, by any measure, one of the biggest pop stars on the planet right now.

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Billboard is marking her birthday by asking fans to vote on her greatest hit so far — a question that, given the pace she’s moving, might look very different by the time she turns 28.

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