Drake is not letting go of the top spot. Drake’s ICEMAN just locked in a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, proof that the Toronto superstar’s triple album takeover was no one week fluke. The album that dominated headlines in May is somehow still the loudest thing on the chart in June.
According to Billboard, ICEMAN earned roughly 171,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 4, a 24 percent dip from the week before but still more than enough to hold off the field on the chart dated June 13. Streaming carried it once again, with about 170,000 of those units coming from streams and more than 174 million on demand plays packed into a single week.
That third week matters more than it might sound. Of Drake’s 15 No. 1 albums, Drake’s ICEMAN is now only the fifth to spend at least three weeks on top, and his first to pull it off since Certified Lover Boy ran for five weeks back in 2021. His all time leader is still Views, which sat at No. 1 for a staggering 13 weeks in 2016. The new run also ties him with Adele for the ninth most weeks at No. 1 in the chart’s entire history, at 40 apiece.
The whole campaign has been a record rewriting exercise. When Drake dropped it on May 15 alongside two more full albums, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR, the three projects debuted at Nos. 1, 2, and 3, making him the first artist ever to hold the complete top three in the Billboard 200’s 70 year history. ICEMAN’s opening week alone moved 463,000 units behind 462 million streams, the biggest streaming week of all of 2026. That 15th chart topper also pushed Drake past Jay-Z for the most No. 1 albums among men and tied him with Taylor Swift for the most among soloists, leaving only The Beatles ahead of both of them. On the Hot 100, he posted 40 song debuts in a single week, an all time record.
Part of what has kept Drake’s ICEMAN glued to the conversation is the blood in the water. The album is stacked with shots, and the loudest ones land on A$AP Rocky and Rihanna. On “Burning Bridges,” track eight and the clearest swing at Rocky on the record, Drake needles the couple over promotion, pointing out that Rocky’s partner did not even post his single before repeating the now viral line, where she at. Fans read it instantly as a jab at Rihanna for not pushing Rocky’s album Don’t Be Dumb on social media, even though she did show up to his release party and publicly celebrated it going No. 1.
The two go back a long way, which is what gives the shots their sting. Drake brought a rising Rocky out on his 2012 Club Paradise Tour, and the pair later linked on a classic posse cut alongside Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz. The friendship soured after Rocky and Rihanna built a family together, and Rocky planted himself firmly in the anti Drake camp during the 2024 Kendrick war before layering his own Drake shots across Don’t Be Dumb. ICEMAN is Drake’s answer, and “Burning Bridges” is where the grudge turns personal. He spread the venom around too, including a bar widely read as aimed at LeBron James on another cut.
The timing of all of it tells the real story. Two years after a feud the internet decided he lost, Drake is sitting on a third week at No. 1 while several fellow heavyweights who released albums this year faded from the chart conversation almost immediately. He has also been crowned the most streamed artist of 2026 on Spotify, and Drake’s ICEMAN set a benchmark as the platform’s most streamed album in a single day this year.
A$AP Rocky has been spotted out in New York as the where she at line makes its rounds all over again, and the album’s staying power means that bar is not going anywhere soon. For all the talk about Drake being finished, the numbers keep saying the opposite, and ICEMAN is the loudest argument he has made yet.
