Creatively speaking, returns are uneven on Drake's surprise three-album drop. But commercially speaking, Iceman, Habibti, and Maid Of Honour are a major coup. The albums have debuted at #1, #2, and #3 respectively, making Drake the first artist to ever occupy the top three spots on the Billboard 200 concurrently.
Iceman, the album Drake had been teasing for over a year, unsurprisingly starts out on top. It's Drake's 15th #1 album, Billboard reports, tying him with Taylor Swift for most #1 albums among solo artists. The only act with more chart-topping albums is the Beatles with 19. Iceman debuts with 463,000 equivalent album units. Streaming accounted for 449,000 of those; Iceman's 462.2 million on-demand track streams were the biggest one-week streaming total of 2026 so far.
Habibti is in at #2 with 114,000 units, 108,000 via streaming thanks to 110.63 million on-demand track streams. Maid Of Honour is close behind at #3 with 110,000 units, including 104,000 streaming units based on 105.48 million on-demand track streams.
All three albums were for sale in digital format only, so it's fascinating to think about how much bigger the numbers could have been if Drake had vinyl ready to go. Maybe that will account for a late-breaking jolt to the albums' stats a few months from now, when the albums start to fade. Then again, behemoth albums from streaming-era superstars tend to stay in the top 10 indefinitely these days based on streaming intertia alone.
How impressive is Drake's top-three trifecta? Per Billboard, only two artists have debuted a pair of albums at #1 and #2. Guns N' Roses did it with Use Your Illusion II and Use Your Illusion I in 1991, and Nelly did it with Suit and Sweat in 2004. Occupying the top two spots (rather than debuting two albums there simultaneously) is a little less rare. The Beatles spent 20 weeks with albums at #1 and #2 in 1964. Most recently, Future held down the #1 and #2 albums in 2017.
Notably, key Iceman inspiration Michael Jackson had the three bestselling albums in 2009 the week after his death with Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson, and Thriller. But because the Billboard 200 did not include catalog (older) releases at the time, Drake, not Jackson, is credited as the first artist to hold down those top three spots.
As for the rest of the top 10, Noah Kahan's The Great Divide is down to #4 after three straight weeks at #1. The album posted 101,000 units this week, making this the first time in nearly a year that each of the top four albums had above 100,000 units. (The top four that week: Travis Scott and Jackboys' Jackboys, Justin Bieber's Swag, Morgan Wallen's I'm The Problem, and Clipse's Let God Sort 'Em Out).
Ella Langley's Dandelion is at #5, Wallen's I'm The Problem is still hanging around at #6, and — hey, look at that — Jackson has Thriller at #7 and Number Ones at #8 thanks to a biopic-related surge in interest. Lucki hits the top 10 for the first time as Dr*Gs R Bad debuts at #9 with 51,000 equivalent units. And BTS round out the top 10 with Arirang at #10.
