Drake Habibti Hits No. 1 in Canada for a Record 17th Time

The Drake Habibti comeback just got its biggest trophy yet: the Toronto rapper's May album has re-entered the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at number one, giving him a record seventeenth chart-topper in his home country, according to Billboard Canada. The reason is a four-song add-on called FOMO that turned a sleepy album into a chart rocket.

How a May album went back to number one

Habibti was one of three albums Drake dropped on the same day in May, alongside Iceman and Maid of Honour. Iceman took the Canadian number one slot back then, and Habibti was widely seen as the quietest of the trio. Then came the deluxe edition. The expanded FOMO version added four tracks to the original eleven, and Billboard counts an expanded edition as the same album, so every stream of the old and new songs lands in one pile.

That pile was huge. According to Complex, the album jumped from number one hundred sixteen to number two on the US Billboard 200, earning seventy-one thousand equivalent units, a week-over-week increase of more than five hundred percent. Canada was even kinder: the same bump pushed it all the way to the top of the Canadian list dated October seventeenth.

What is actually on the FOMO four-pack

The new songs are "Solar Eclipse" with Don Toliver, "Quebec," "Cold Shoulder" featuring Don Toliver and Yebba, and "Classic PT2," an extended take on a track that first appeared on Habibti in May. They first surfaced in FOMO, the short film Drake premiered on a YouTube livestream on September fifteenth, and landed on streaming services on October second.

Fans had weeks to hear the songs inside the film before they could stream them, which is basically a masterclass in manufactured hype. Billboard Canada notes that "Solar Eclipse" interpolates Ella Langley's record-breaking hit "Choosin' Texas," a detail that helped the track travel beyond the usual Drake audience.

The Canadian Hot 100 flex

The album chart was not the only win. Billboard Canada reports all four new songs landed on the Canadian Hot 100 dated October seventeenth. "Quebec" debuted at number five, "Solar Eclipse" at number six and "Cold Shoulder" at number seven, giving him three top-ten entries. "Classic PT2" re-entered at number seventeen, and Drake has nine songs on the chart in total.

Even older cuts got a lift. Four re-entries showed up lower down the chart, including "WNBA" at number sixty-five and "I'm Spent" at number sixty-nine. When one deluxe drop drags half a back catalogue up with it, that is the streaming flywheel doing its thing.

Why the record matters

Seventeen Canadian number ones is not a small flex. When Iceman arrived, it broke Drake out of a tie with Celine Dion and Taylor Swift for the most chart-topping albums in the country, according to Billboard Canada. Now he sits two albums clear of both of them. Earlier entries on the list run from Thank Me Later in two thousand ten through Views, which spent twelve weeks on top, to Certified Lover Boy and For All The Dogs.

Not everyone was won over by the songs themselves. Reviewer Anthony Fantano called "Cold Shoulder" probably the best of the bunch on his Needle Drop opinion page, while describing "Quebec" as the most slapped-together of the four and the auto-tune as rough. Even so, the numbers say fans showed up regardless.

What it says about how albums work now

The lesson for anyone watching music business trends is simple: in the streaming era, an album is never finished. A well-timed deluxe edition can resurrect a release that was five months old and sitting far down the chart, then rewrite a record book. Add a film, a livestream and a Don Toliver feature, and a quiet album gets a second premiere.

It also shows how much a home-market crown still means. Drake has spent years as a global streaming force, but a Canadian number one is a reminder that the Toronto kid is still counting wins on home soil. For more on the biggest names in music, check the GenZ NewZ music section, because this chart race is not slowing down.

The Drake Habibti run raises the next question: does Drake keep adding to the pile? He has already dropped three albums, a short film and a four-song deluxe this year, and every release has landed with a chart bang. If the pattern holds, expect the next surprise to arrive just as everyone thinks the rollout is over.