Drake Becomes First Artist With 400 Cumulative Weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10
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Drakehas broken a secondBillboardchart record in just two months.
ChartDatareports that the OVO head is now the first artist in history with 400 cumulative weeks in theBillboard Hot 100top 10. The news arrives as 'Nokia' spends its 16th week in the top 10, moving down one spot to No. 10.
Back in April, hesurpassed The Beatlesto have the most cumulative weeks on the Billboard 200 with over 3,346 weeks on the chart. Some of his most notable releases includeTake Care's578 weeks,Nothing Was the Same's505 weeks,Viewsat 411 weeks,More Lifeat 350 weeks andScorpionat 300 weeks.
Drizzy is currently preparing to hit up the UK and Europe for his'$ome $pecial $hows 4 UK/EU'withPARTYNEXTDOOR. He'll start off by headlining all three days of Wireless Festival (his first UK show in six years) followed by stops in Birmingham and Manchester in mid-July before going over to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Zuric, Cologne, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Paris, Berlin, Munich and Hamburg.
.@Drakebecomes the first artist in history to spend 400 cumulative weeks in the Hot 100's top 10.pic.twitter.com/SOcEpPHZlt
— chart data (@chartdata)June 9, 2025
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