Canadian rapper Drake has released five studio albums , three compilation albums , two extended plays , seven mixtapes , singles including 80 as a featured artist , five promotional singles and 84 music videos. Following him signing to Young Money Entertainment imprint, Drake's mixtape, So Far Gone was repackaged as a release of his seven-song extended play. These singles peaked at numbers 2, 17 and 40 on the US Billboard Hot , respectively. In November , Drake released his second studio album, Take Care it debuted at number one in both the United States and Canada, becoming his second album to achieve this feat. The album achieved huge commercial success, becoming the most popular release of in the US. Drake's fifth studio album, Scorpion was released in June and again debuted at number one in Canada and in the US. The album was certified platinum on the day it was released [14] and became the first album to be streamed over one billion times in its release week. All 25 tracks on the album entered the Billboard Hot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


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Skip to Content. With the release of "More Life," there's more Drake to add to our ranking of the Toronto star's greatest hits. Nicki Minaj. One of the best things about Drake is his ability to shift from ridiculously memeable floss-raps to broken, unflattering honesty, and often in the same song. If people need convincing, consider this passage buried in this "Nothing Was The Same" deep cut:. Of course he is. Decrying the corrupting, corrosive elements of celebrity is the sort of selfish narrative that embarasses many a struggle rapper, but Drake has been one of the most recognizable people on the planet for a long time now. Apparently superstardom is equal parts exhilarating and terrifying. The beat is great, a seasick two-step of mahogany operatic? His verse becomes one of the most resonate things to ever appear on a Drake song.
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Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here or find our profile: nytimes. Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist nytimes. Drake has been relatively quiet for most of , but is closing the year out with some score settling and palate cleansing. He sat for a two-hour-plus interview with Rap Radar this week, covering a range of topics, some of them uncomfortable. Over a U. Whatever you believe about Drake, it is remarkable that at his commercial peak, rather than double down on the sort of songs that have kept him at the forefront of mainstream hip-hop, he takes time to study and absorb influences from around the globe. In this benevolent close-harmony piano hymn, gently buttressed by strings, the bulwark against mortality is love: for lovers, for aging parents, for children. The message may be materialistic, but Burna Boy delivers it like an incantation.
Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. When Drake first debuted at No. With the No. Of course, with Drake's chart ascent coinciding with the rise of streaming, it's not like all of these songs were "Drake hits," at least in the old-fashioned, single-oriented sense. Yet despite the staggering number of entries Drake has notched on the Hot over his chart run -- an average of nearly 20 a year since his mid chart debut -- the rapper's entire catalog is hardly represented here. Still, the great majority of the singer-rapper's best-known work can be found here, spanning from his first pop breakthroughs to his diaristic deep cuts to his harder mixtape tracks to his meme-courting later smashes. Read on below, with a playlist of all songs at the very bottom, and see how we rank an already unprecedented chart run -- one that, by all indications, is still far from over. As if bringing U. If you guessed that he would primarily use it as a chance to try out his favorite U.