In his new tune, Drake repeatedly asks, “What Did I Miss?” Effectively, we all know one factor he didn’t: No. 1.
The shock observe, launched on July 5, storms onto the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated July 19 to provide the celebrity his record-extending thirty first champ. By including to his chart-topping assortment, Drake additional distances himself from runners-up Aretha Franklin and Stevie Surprise, every with 20 No. 1s.
Right here’s a take a look at the acts with probably the most No. 1s on Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, relationship to the chart’s consolidation right into a single genre-based rating in October 1958:
- 31, Drake
- 20, Aretha Franklin
- 20, Stevie Surprise
- 17, James Brown
- 16, Janet Jackson
- 15, The Temptations
Additional, Drake collects his one hundred and fortieth week at No. 1 on the Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, doubling the profession complete of all different acts. Surprise ranks second, with 70 weeks on the summit.
“What Did I Miss?,” launched through OVO Sound/Republic Data, earned 22.6 million official streams, 3.6 million in airplay viewers and 6,000 gross sales in the USA for the monitoring week of July 4-10, in accordance with Luminate. From these counts, Drake picks up a record-extending twenty first No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and his fifteenth chief on the Digital Song Sales survey, whereas radio outcomes embody a No. 36 entrance on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.
“What Did I Miss?” additionally widens Drake’s report assortment throughout different Billboard charts: It arrives atop the Hot Rap Songs chart as his unprecedented thirty first No. 1 and marks his 81st prime 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 with its No. 2 debut. The observe is the anticipated first providing from a possible Drake album. Followers suspect its title can be Iceman, based mostly on Drake utilizing the title throughout social media captions and video promotions in current weeks.
In profitable the Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs throne, Drake’s observe replaces one other juggernaut, Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which soared to a report 28 weeks atop the chart between December-July. The victory avenges the second-place displaying for Drake’s single “Nokia” that peaked at No. 2 on Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for 12 consecutive weeks earlier this yr behind “Luther.” Including one other layer of intrigue, “What Did I Miss?” finds Drake ruminating on feeble allegiances from supposed associates and collaborators within the aftermath of his feud with Lamar, a defining pop-culture storyline of 2024.