Drake passes The Beatles with the most top five hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
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Drake passes The Beatles with the most top five hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
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Drake has surpassed The Beatles with the most top five hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The 35-year-old Canadian rapper scored his 30th top five hit with the debut of the DJ Khaled song Staying Alive that features him along with Lil Baby.
Staying Alive debuted at number five on the latest chart dated August 20.
Record setter: Drake, shown in September 2019 in London, has surpassed The Beatles with the most top five hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Chart watchers also noted that Drake has become the first artist in history to earn 100 top 20 hits on the Hot 100.
The Beatles dropped to second behind Drake with 29 top five hits and were followed by Madonna with 28, Mariah Carey with 27, Janet Jackson with 26, Rihanna with 23 and Elvis Presley with 21.
Drake acknowledged his achievements on social media by sharing a headline about surpassing The Beatles.
‘Ok I broke my records for the month,’ he wrote in the caption for his roughly 119 million followers along with a plug for a Bitcoin exchange.
Music legends: The Beatles, shown in 1965, were second to Drake with 29 top five hits
All time: Billboard Charts on Twitter revealed that Drake has his 30th career top five hit w2ith Staying Alive by DJ Khaled
The emotional rapper released his seventh studio album Nevermind in June and it became his 11th album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Drake is the fifth act with more than 10 albums reaching number one on the Billboard 200 since the chart began regularly publishing weekly in 1956.
The Beatles have a record 19 albums that reached number one on the chart, followed by Jay-Z with 14 and Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand who each have 11.
Social media: Drake acknowledged his achievements on social media by sharing a headline about surpassing The Beatles
Emotional rapper: The Toronto native is shown performing in February in Los Angeles
The title for most number one singles still goes to The Beatles with 20, followed by Mariah with 19 and Elvis with 18.
Drake on the Meek Mill single ‘Goin Bad’ famously remarked, ‘I got more slaps than The Beatles.’
He got a tattoo in 2019 showing himself as the fifth Beatle standing ahead of the late John Lennon in the famous Abbey Road crosswalk image.
Drake got the ink after landing seven songs in the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100, breaking the record of five songs previously held by The Beatles.
He also has beaten The Beatles record for most Hot 100 top 10 songs in a single year that was set in 1964.
Rock stars: The title for most number one singles still goes to The Beatles, shown in February 1964, with 20, followed by Mariah with 19 and Elvis with 18