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Among Drake’s historic week on Billboard’s charts (dated May 30), he becomes the first artist ever to pass 400 career hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, upping his count to a staggering 402 appearances.
Notably, Drake has held the mark for the most Hot 100 visits since early 2020.
Before that, only two other acts claimed that honor going back to 1964.
The Hot 100 launched with the edition dated Aug. 4, 1958, and Elvis Presley, fittingly, assumed the throne with the most entries just more than six years later, after the likes of Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash and Fats Domino traded first place over that early sample size.
On the Hot 100 dated Oct. 10, 1964, Presley debuted the double-sided single “Ain’t That Loving You Baby”/“Ask Me,” giving him an advantage in total hits of 45 to 43 over Domino. The King of Rock n’ Roll would then have the most appearances at every checkpoint through the ranking dated Feb. 19, 2011 — a stretch of 46 years, four months and one week.
On the Feb. 26, 2011-dated Hot 100, the Glee Cast debuted six songs, boosting its total to 113 and passing Presley’s then 107. The troupe from the Fox TV favorite — thanks to its unique multimedia presence and rapid, supersized release model — would stand as the act with the most appearances through the end of the decade, even with the ensemble having last charted in 2013, totaling 207 entries, and the show having wrapped its run in 2015. Ultimately, the act reigned with the most charted titles for a stretch of nine years and one month.
(The Glee Cast recorded two notable covers of Presley classics — “Blue Christmas” and “A Little Less Conversation” — although those tributes didn’t reach the Hot 100, so he didn’t quite help them topple his total.)
On the March 21, 2020, Hot 100, Drake seized the baton, outpacing the Glee Cast with an assist from another superstar name: That week, “Oprah’s Bank Account,” with Lil Yachty and DaBaby, debuted, marking Drake’s unprecedented 208th entry. (“You get a record!”)
As of the latest Hot 100, Drake has had the most total appearances for six years, two months and one week running.
(Can Drake overtake Presley’s 46-year-plus streak of leading all acts for the most career Hot 100 hits? If no one gets in his way, check back around, give or take, August 2066.)
Drake took to Instagram following his dominant week, boasting, “Neck broke from carrying the chain, back broke from carrying the game, records broken carry on my name, carry on carry on.”
