"Janice STFU," a track from Drake's Iceman, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated May 30, 2026, giving the rapper his 14th career chart-topping single and officially breaking his tie with Michael Jackson for the most No. 1 hits among solo male artists. Only Mariah Carey (19) and The Beatles (20) sit ahead of him.
The chart-week details
"Janice STFU" entered at No. 1 with the bulk of its streams pulled from Iceman's release week, opening with 40.7 million first-week streams (per inmusicblog), part of the largest album debut on Spotify this year (per Billboard). It is Drake's first No. 1 from Iceman; the album's lead single, "What Did I Miss?" (July 2025), debuted at No. 2 on this same chart. The track interpolates the chorus of Lykke Li's 2011 single "I Follow Rivers" under heavy Auto-Tune, and arrived alongside the rest of Iceman's 18-track tracklist on May 15.
The Michael Jackson comparison
Jackson recorded 13 Hot 100 No. 1s between "Ben" in 1972 and "You Are Not Alone" in 1995 — 23 years and the chart's pre-streaming era. Drake's 14 have arrived in 17 years, and eight of them have come in the 2020s alone. The math reflects two different musical economies — Jackson sold albums and worked singles up the chart for months; Drake releases tracks into a pool where a single album drop can place nine songs in the top ten in week one, as Iceman did on debut.
Where it leaves the all-time record
Mariah Carey at 19 No. 1s remains the solo benchmark, and The Beatles at 20 the all-time group record. Carey is five No. 1s ahead, The Beatles six. Whether Drake gets there depends mostly on whether the touring and rollout pace he set with Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour is sustainable, or whether the three-album drop was a one-off lever pull. For our broader read on what Iceman meant on release week, see our piece on Drake's Iceman drawing mixed reviews from critics and fans.
The new record was confirmed by Billboard on Tuesday and will be officially reflected in the chart dated May 30.
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