Most top 10's Hot 100

[Gary]

Beatles 34 hits by weeks in the top 10

Hey Jude, The Beatles 14
I Want To Hold Your Hand, The Beatles 12
Come Together/Something, The Beatles 12
She Loves You, The Beatles 11
Let It Be, The Beatles 11
Get Back, The Beatles 9
Hello Goodbye, The Beatles 8
A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles 8
Twist And Shout, The Beatles 7
Please Please Me, The Beatles 7
We Can Work It Out, The Beatles 7
All You Need Is Love, The Beatles 7
Lady Madonna, The Beatles 7
Yellow Submarine, The Beatles 6
I Feel Fine, The Beatles 6
Ticket To Ride, The Beatles 6
Yesterday, The Beatles 6
Help!, The Beatles 6
Can't Buy Me Love, The Beatles 6
The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue, The Beatles 6
Love Me Do, The Beatles 6
Penny Lane, The Beatles 5
Got To Get You Into My Life, The Beatles 5
Eight Days A Week, The Beatles 5
Do You Want To Know A Secret, The Beatles 5
Paperback Writer, The Beatles 5
Nowhere Man, The Beatles 5
The Ballad Of John And Yoko, The Beatles 4
Day Tripper, The Beatles 3
Free As A Bird, The Beatles 2
She's A Woman, The Beatles 2
P.S. I Love You, The Beatles 1
Strawberry Fields Forever, The Beatles 1

[Gary]

Drake's 34 hits by weeks in the top 10

God's Plan, Drake 26
One Dance, Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla 20
Hotline Bling, Drake 19
Work, Rihanna Featuring Drake 18
Nice For What, Drake 17
What's My Name?, Rihanna Featuring Drake 14
In My Feelings, Drake 14
Hold On, We're Going Home, Drake Featuring Majid Jordan 13
Look Alive, BlocBoy JB Featuring Drake 13
Best I Ever Had, Drake 12
Started From The Bottom, Drake 10
Find Your Love, Drake 7
Fake Love, Drake 6
Take Care, Drake Featuring Rihanna 4
Love Me, Lil Wayne Featuring Drake & Future 4
Yes Indeed, Lil Baby & Drake 2
F**kin Problems, A$AP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar 2
Going Bad, Meek Mill Featuring Drake 2
Passionfruit, Drake 2
She Will, Lil Wayne Featuring Drake 1
Walk It Talk It, Migos Featuring Drake 1
Summer Sixteen, Drake 1
No Guidance, Chris Brown Featuring Drake 1
Don't Matter To Me, Drake Featuring Michael Jackson 1
Nonstop, Drake 1
Diplomatic Immunity, Drake 1
Make Me Proud, Drake Featuring Nicki Minaj 1
I'm On One, DJ Khaled Featuring Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne 1
MIA, Bad Bunny Featuring Drake 1
I'm Upset, Drake 1
Forever, Drake Featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem 1
Emotionless, Drake 1
Right Above It, Lil Wayne Featuring Drake 1
Portland, Drake Featuring Quavo & Travis Scott 1

[Gary]

Madonna 38 hits 224 weeks total - 4 songs lasted just 1 week
Drake 34 hits 220 weeks total - 15 of the 34 songs lasted just 1 week, 4 more lasted just 2 weeks
Beatles 34 hits(Something/Come Together count as 2) - 211 weeks total - 2 songs lasted just 1 week


Madonna had 1 song with 15 weeks in the top 10
Beatles had none
Drake had 5


Drake had big hits of course but clearly benefited from the streaming era. Lots of singles at once, many not staying around long

[thegreatdivine]

Jun 18, 2019 23:32:58 GMT -5 Gary said:

Madonna 38 hits 224 weeks total - 4 songs lasted just 1 week
Drake 34 hits 220 weeks total - 15 of the 34 songs lasted just 1 week, 4 more lasted just 2 weeks
Beatles 34 hits(Something/Come Together count as 2) - 211 weeks total - 2 songs lasted just 1 week


Madonna had 1 song with 15 weeks in the top 10
Beatles had none
Drake had 5


Drake had big hits of course but clearly benefited from the streaming era. Lots of singles at once, many not staying around long

This puts it all into perspective.

[imbondz]

So Drake has basically 19 legit top 10 singles

[thegreatdivine]

Jun 19, 2019 6:50:03 GMT -5 imbondz said:

So Drake has basically 19 legit top 10 singles

Why aren't the remaining 15 top 10 singles legit?

[iHype.]

Simply spending 1 week top 10 doesn’t mean something isn’t a “legit top 10”. That’s as dumb as saying spending 1 week at #1 isn’t a legit number one.

A chart run like 90-56-32-24-17-16-13-12-10-11-11-14-16-18-20-25-30-33-33-37-38-39-40-42-48-50 would have no reason to not be a legit hit in all forms.

Even a chart run like 8-13-14-17-15-16-19-21-20-24-28-36-38-40-44-47. That is a song that spent months top 20/top 40.

There are songs that spend multiple weeks top 10 but end up having weaker chart runs than both scenarios.
Drake’s list has like... 3 top 10s that had just actual weak runs and struggled to even reach 10 weeks charting. But he also has plentyyyy of top 20s that spent months top 20 and definitely deserved a week or two top 10. So his number of top 10s really isn’t undeserving at all.

[rockgolf]

At a guess, those are the one's where Drake is NOT the lead act on the track.

[iHype.]

Jun 20, 2019 9:22:24 GMT -5 rockgolf said:

At a guess, those are the one's where Drake is NOT the lead act on the track.

Drake - The Motto (2011):
18-32-27-30-29-21-23-19-20-21-16-16-19-19-17-15-19-21-17-17-16-14-15-15-15-15-18-23-25-25-27-30-36-42-47
5 months top 20; more than multiple #1 hits that year. (Born this Way, S&M, Hold It Against Me, Black & Yellow)

Drake - Headlines (2011):
13-21-28-29-25-23-23-22-17-15-16-13-14-16-30-14-13-16-16-15-18-18-25-33-36
3 months top 20.

Drake - Jumpman (2015):
52-21-16-13-12-14-16-16-16-18-15-14-13-12-13-12-12-14-20-22-22-23-24-22-23-32-23-25
4 months top 20.

Drake - Too Good (2016): 
52-41-33-34-30-33-29-27-27-22-19-20-20-20-17-14-14-16-17-16-15-18-19-24-28-33-37-45-48
3 months top 20.

The Motto is 5x Platinum, Headlines is 4x Platinum, Jumpman is 5x Platinum despite never going top 10.

Marvins Room, despite peaking #21 in 2011, draws more recurrent streams on a daily basis through Apple Music/Spotify US than every single 2011 #1 hit.

Not looking at features. Plenty of 'legit' huge hits that didn't go top 10.

[Gary]

I think that if it makes the top 10 in a given week it is a 'legit top 10'

I posted all the stuff above to show that unlike the Beatles and Madonna, Drake has a number of tracks that fall under one of the following:

-featurings
-Big streaming week from an advance single or non-album single - then quickly fades from lack of support on other metrics
-An album release (as we know every Drake track  from every album charts)

We will never really know how many top 10s the Beatles and Madonna would have had under the same conditions but, we may be able to guess how many top 10s Drake may have had if released one at a time rather than all at once

[wayneashleymusic]

Jun 18, 2019 9:45:13 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Yah, there should be a pre-digital/-streaming-era list and a digital/streaming-era one. Aside from multiple tracks from an album being able to chart for acts at/near their commercial heyday, there's the prevalence of collaborations/featurings in the the latter era.

Time moves on.  But this is the most important point.  Drake obviously deserves props for a massive achievement, but it was a a way easier climb to that milestone in an era of album bombs, copious features, and putting out "song camp" songs with 15 to 20 songwriters.  

Hate to sound old, but this current era of pop music stardom will simply never compare to the time when a song when Number 1, and you flipped to the back of that casette or CD single, check the songwriting credits and all you see is " written by Madonna, Patrick Leonard" or "written by Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis".  These people WROTE their records, WORKED those records around the country and EARNED those hits.  

Again not taking away from Drake... congratulations.  But the era just cannot compare for me.  

[thegreatdivine]

Jun 20, 2019 9:53:21 GMT -5 wayneashleymusic said:

Jun 18, 2019 9:45:13 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Yah, there should be a pre-digital/-streaming-era list and a digital/streaming-era one. Aside from multiple tracks from an album being able to chart for acts at/near their commercial heyday, there's the prevalence of collaborations/featurings in the the latter era.

Time moves on.  But this is the most important point.  Drake obviously deserves props for a massive achievement, but it was a a way easier climb to that milestone in an era of album bombs, copious features, and putting out "song camp" songs with 15 to 20 songwriters.  

Hate to sound old, but this current era of pop music stardom will simply never compare to the time when a song when Number 1, and you flipped to the back of that casette or CD single, check the songwriting credits and all you see is " written by Madonna, Patrick Leonard" or "written by Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis".  These people WROTE their records, WORKED those records around the country and EARNED those hits.  

Again not taking away from Drake... congratulations.  But the era just cannot compare for me.  

I'll assume you're not trying to say Drake uses song camps. He's almost always the only credited ''songwriter'' on his songs. The thing with music today is that you have multiple songs with multiple producers. Rappers like Drake also use tons of samples on their songs which leads to longer credits on each song, not because the lead artist isn't writing their own lyrics. You can check his album credits dating back to his debut album and the only people credited are him and the producer(s) of the song/the people he samples on the song (who also get credited). Also, TONS of artists this decade like Drake, Taylor Swift, Adele, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, etc have NUMEROUS songs where they're the only ones in the writing credits along with maybe one or two producers, so I don't really get the point you're trying to make. Seems like you just wish things were like the way they used to be, but like you yourself said: time moves on.

[badrobot]

Madonna and Drake would both have more top tens if their credits/release strategies had been different.

Both "Into the Groove" and "Beautiful Stranger" would've hit the top 10 if they had proper single releases (and possibly "American Pie" too).
And more recently Drake would've had another #1 with "Sicko Mode."

All of those songs certainly were bigger hits than tracks like "Give Me All Your Luvin" and "Diplomatic Immunity." But, that's not the way these records work.

[rockgolf]

I guess what we're really comparing are Apple Records to Apple iPads.

[thegreatdivine]

Jun 20, 2019 10:13:39 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Madonna and Drake would both have more top tens if their credits/release strategies had been different.

Both "Into the Groove" and "Beautiful Stranger" would've hit the top 10 if they had proper single releases (and possibly "American Pie" too).
And more recently Drake would've had another #1 with "Sicko Mode."

All of those songs certainly were bigger hits than tracks like "Give Me All Your Luvin" and "Diplomatic Immunity." But, that's not the way these records work.

Exactly. I feel like if anyone should be mad, that anger should be directed at Billboard and their methodology - NOT Drake or any other artist who takes advantage of the current musical climate. Older acts took advantage of the climate of the music industry back then, too. Acts that start out their careers in the 2020's and beyond will NEVER be able to say they literally sold millions of albums the way acts in the '60-2010's did. That dies with the end of this decade. They'll have another metric to measure the success of their albums and that's okay. 

I feel like it's also important to note that Drake scoring all these top 10's isn't necessarily EASY to do, at least not as consistently as he does it. He makes it look easy, but I see how other artists score 1, 2 top 10's in a go and struggle to continue as time goes on. I don't know any other artist who can score this many top 10 songs on BOTH leads/features this consistently, so Drake in this situation is the exception, not the rule. 

[Gary]

I don't think anyone is "mad" at anybody or Billboard or methodology


When you compare numbers from different eras adjustments should be made to account for the different conditions, different technology etc.

Ex: no streaming in the 60s

Is that Billboard's fault? No

That is just accounting for changing times

[iHype.]

For the ones who keep saying album tracks/collabs/features make it easier today, I'd argue artists back then actually had a huge advantage statistically.

There was 100+ top 10s per year throughout the 80s for example. The average this decade is around 50.

If the chart moved as fast as it did in say 1989, then there would be a lot more top 10 hits thus artists statistically would rack up more. I'm sure Rihanna would have passed Madonna already had the chart moved as fast as it was in the 1980s. All these numerous #11-20 hits huge names have, probably would have made top 10 with a 2x faster turnover.

It is apples and oranges, but I really don't like the implication that this era only has advantages and it was sooo~~~~ much harder and of bigger merit then.

[fhas]

Jun 20, 2019 18:36:25 GMT -5 iHype. said:

For the ones who keep saying album tracks/collabs/features make it easier today, I'd argue artists back then actually had a huge advantage statistically.

There was 100+ top 10s per year throughout the 80s for example. The average this decade is around 50.

If the chart moved as fast as it did in say 1989, then there would be a lot more top 10 hits thus artists statistically would rack up more. I'm sure Rihanna would have passed Madonna already had the chart moved as fast as it was in the 1980s. All these numerous #11-20 hits huge names have, probably would have made top 10 with a 2x faster turnover.

It is apples and oranges, but I really don't like the implication that this era only has advantages and it was sooo~~~~ much harder and of bigger merit then.

The same thing happens everytime a song gets close to the "most weeks at #1" record and when you look at the numbers it's much harder to have a 13-week+ number one this decade (UpTown Funk!, Despacito) than in the 1990s (The Boy Is Mine, End Of The Road, Candle In The Wind, Macarena, I'll Make Love To You, I Will Always Love You, One Sweet Day).

[badrobot]

Jun 20, 2019 18:36:25 GMT -5 iHype. said:

For the ones who keep saying album tracks/collabs/features make it easier today, I'd argue artists back then actually had a huge advantage statistically.

There was 100+ top 10s per year throughout the 80s for example. The average this decade is around 50.

If the chart moved as fast as it did in say 1989, then there would be a lot more top 10 hits thus artists statistically would rack up more. I'm sure Rihanna would have passed Madonna already had the chart moved as fast as it was in the 1980s. All these numerous #11-20 hits huge names have, probably would have made top 10 with a 2x faster turnover.

It is apples and oranges, but I really don't like the implication that this era only has advantages and it was sooo~~~~ much harder and of bigger merit then.

This doesn’t quite hold up. 50 hits a year where many of them have multiple features could easily mean 100+ artist credits for top tens.

Also, before digital sales and streaming became huge, it was nearly impossible for artists to score 5+ top tens from one album, and if they did, it typically took a couple years to do it. Now a well timed release schedule for a major artist can mean 5 top tens in a couple months.

Ultimately it was just a different market. It took enormous marketing and label coordination and months if not years to get songs out there. Now someone like Drake could feasibly record a song tonight and release it worldwide tomorrow.

I don’t think it was harder for a *hit* song (meaning, a song that had sustained airplay and sales and was released as a single) to reach the top ten back then — it may have been easier even. But it is simply MUCH easier now for *one-off* random songs to reach the top ten for a single week.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Yeah, Drake's numbers are cool and impressive BUT when I see All Time Hot 100 Artists, he's only #21...that's pretty low considering that he has 200 chart hits. For example, look at Katy, she's #25 with only 30 songs. 

I mean, I love his songs, but everything 'bout him is instant, and that's really boring and uninspiring imo.

[iHype.]

Jun 20, 2019 20:30:00 GMT -5 badrobot said:

Jun 20, 2019 18:36:25 GMT -5 iHype. said:

For the ones who keep saying album tracks/collabs/features make it easier today, I'd argue artists back then actually had a huge advantage statistically.

There was 100+ top 10s per year throughout the 80s for example. The average this decade is around 50.

If the chart moved as fast as it did in say 1989, then there would be a lot more top 10 hits thus artists statistically would rack up more. I'm sure Rihanna would have passed Madonna already had the chart moved as fast as it was in the 1980s. All these numerous #11-20 hits huge names have, probably would have made top 10 with a 2x faster turnover.

It is apples and oranges, but I really don't like the implication that this era only has advantages and it was sooo~~~~ much harder and of bigger merit then.

This doesn’t quite hold up. 50 hits a year where many of them have multiple features could easily mean 100+ artist credits for top tens.

Also, before digital sales and streaming became huge, it was nearly impossible for artists to score 5+ top tens from one album, and if they did, it typically took a couple years to do it. Now a well timed release schedule for a major artist can mean 5 top tens in a couple months.

Ultimately it was just a different market. It took enormous marketing and label coordination and months if not years to get songs out there. Now someone like Drake could feasibly record a song tonight and release it worldwide tomorrow.

I don’t think it was harder for a *hit* song (meaning, a song that had sustained airplay and sales and was released as a single) to reach the top ten back then — it may have been easier even. But it is simply MUCH easier now for *one-off* random songs to reach the top ten for a single week.

True, there is more artists credited on hits however it definitely isn't easier for albums to get more chart hits. Now with streaming since you have all unlimited access to every album, eras barely get hits anymore past album release, let alone top 10. 3 songs may go top 10 during album release week, but none will likely go top 10 after. You also have to consider of those 3, one or two are singles that were already hits before the album release. Scorpion, Beerbongs, Invasion of Privacy, ASTROWORLD, etc got no new top 10s after album release week. Songs like Taylor's Delicate, Ariana's Breathin, and Imagine Dragons's Whatever It Takes are examples -- went top 3 on Pop radio and couldn't reach top 10 on Hot 100 because its hard for them to get traction on streams late in the era.

Albums with 5 or more top 10s:
Michael Jackson, 'Thriller,' 1982-84
Lionel Richie, 'Can't Slow Down,' 1983-84
Bruce Springsteen, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' 1984-86
Janet Jackson, 'Control,' 1986-87
Madonna, 'True Blue,' 1986-87
Genesis, 'Invisible Touch,' 1986-87
Huey Lewis & the News, 'Fore!,' 1986-87
Michael Jackson, 'Bad,' 1987-88
George Michael, 'Faith,' 1987-88
Whitney Houston, 'Whitney,' 1987-88
New Kids on the Block, 'Hangin' Tough,' 1988-89
Bon Jovi, 'New Jersey,' 1988-89
Bobby Brown, 'Don't Be Cruel,' 1988-89
Paula Abdul, 'Forever Your Girl,' 1989-90
Milli Vanilli, 'Girl You Know It's True,' 1989-90
Janet Jackson, 'Rhythm Nation 1814,' 1989-91
Janet Jackson, 'janet.,' 1993-94
'Waiting to Exhale' Soundtrack, 1995-96
Usher, Confessions, '2004-05'

[Digital & streaming era]
Fergie, 'The Dutchess,' 2006-08
Rihanna, 'Good Girl Gone Bad,' 2007-08
Taylor Swift, 'Fearless,' 2008-09
The Black Eyed Peas, 'The E.N.D.,' 2009-10
Katy Perry, 'Teenage Dream,' 2010-12
Taylor Swift, '1989,' 2014-15
Drake, 'Scorpion', 2018


Nearly impossible before digital era? Lol.

And only 1 album in the streaming era has gotten 5+ top 10s.

[badrobot]

^I’m actually quite shocked by those stats. The late 80s were rife with albums that achieved that, and I thought it was much more common recently. I think having started following the charts on the mid-90s (notice that huge gap pre-iTunes) tainted my memory.

Just curious — How would those stats look if you went by calendar year instead of album?

[thegreatdivine]

Jun 20, 2019 21:15:32 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Yeah, Drake's numbers are cool and impressive BUT when I see All Time Hot 100 Artists, he's only #21...that's pretty low considering that he has 200 chart hits. For example, look at Katy, she's #25 with only 30 songs. 

I mean, I love his songs, but everything 'bout him is instant, and that's really boring and uninspiring imo.

*32 songs and Rihanna is #10 with 61 songs. Different things are in play here. They both have more #1's and scored most of their #1's in the digital era. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm guessing Billboard's formula back then assigned way more points for songs in the top 10 than they do now. Besides that, Drake didn't start DOMINATING the charts till 2016 and if you wanna be strict, he's had two strong eras: one in 2016 and another in 2018. Katy and Rihanna have had MULTIPLE massive eras. Katy once scored 5 #1 from a single album. Rihanna once scored 4 #1's from a single album.

Also, you know better than to use the number of chart entries as a way of justifying why Drake being #21 in the All-Time Hot 100 Artists list is ''pretty low.'' As at the end of 2014, Drake had 74 Hot 100 chart entries. As at right now, he has 194. By Monday, that number will rise to 196. That means that from 2015-2019 (so far), he's debuted a whooping 120 songs (122 by Monday) on the Hot 100 and that's spread across singles, album cuts, features and loosies. That's mostly because with the rise of streaming, he now debuts a ton of album tracks on the charts. He also does a ton of features which almost always end up debuting on the Hot 100. Both things that Rihanna and especially Katy Perry don't do a lot of. Also, since 2015, Rihanna and Katy Perry have only released 1 album each. Drake has dropped 5 projects since 2015. That's the difference. 

Also, how is ''everything'' about him instant? Any artist who drops a ton of songs off an album that manage to debut on the charts will have just as many songs fall off the charts in the following week(s), but those songs still count as charted entries. No one has done more of that this decade than Drake. Drake spent 8 straight years on the Hot 100 and still charts 5-7 albums weekly. He's the ONLY artist who does that. Songs off his old albums still pull more streams off Spotify and especially Apple Music than any other artist does. He was the #1 year-end catalog artist in 2017 and 2018 and with the albums he's been charting all through this year, I'm sure he stays at #1 for 2019, too. I don't know how that any of that counts as only being an ''instant'' artist, but everyone sees things differently, I guess.

[Gary]

Jun 20, 2019 22:08:23 GMT -5 badrobot said:

^I’m actually quite shocked by those stats. The late 80s were rife with albums that achieved that, and I thought it was much more common recently. I think having started following the charts on the mid-90s (notice that huge gap pre-iTunes) tainted my memory.

Just curious — How would those stats look if you went by calendar year instead of album?

I don't track this anymore but I used to have a thread for this.


pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/119583/most-hits-album-hot-version?page=1

I stopped because, what is on an album vs what is not becomes a little convoluted, with special additions, advance singles, special projects that later get added to an album, etc.

[HolidayGuy]

Drake probably may have moved up some since that 60-year artists chart was posted.

How about the number of entries from an album? That surely would favor the digital/streaming era, eh? ;)

[Gary]

Yeah, though Drake won't automatically float to the top quite yet though.

Even Joel Whitburn and teh soon to be shipped book will apply weigts to the streaming era

[HolidayGuy]

^I haven't ordered it as of yet, but hope to. Wonder if there will be any changes in rank with some of the changes.

[thegreatdivine]

Jun 21, 2019 9:42:51 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Drake probably may have moved up some since that 60-year artists chart was posted.

How about the number of entries from an album? That surely would favor the digital/streaming era, eh? ;)

Billboard updated their all-time list three weeks into In My Feelings' run at #1, so I'm guessing he's moved up at least a few positions since then.

[HolidayGuy]

Meant to remove maybe from that post. :) I'd think Drake has advanced since then. I recall Rihanna moving up three spots on the last list, and that was with a number of entries since the prior one.

[HolidayGuy]

Yep, Drake should break the top 10s record in 2019...

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8517230/drake-most-top-ten-hits-hot-100

Drake Passes The Beatles For the Second-Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s
6/24/2019 by Gary Trust

Drake passes The Beatles for the second-most top 10s in the Billboard Hot 100's six-decade history, 35 to 34, as his new track "Money in the Grave," featuring Rick Ross, debuts at No. 7 (on the chart dated June 29).

Only Madonna boasts more Hot 100 top 10s than Drake, with 38. (Reflecting the collaborative nature of hip-hop, "Grave" is Drake's 23rd top 10 as a lead artist, to go along with 12 as a featured act. Madonna and The Beatles sport lead credit on all their top 10s.)

Here's an updated look at the acts with the most top 10s since the Hot 100 began on Aug. 4, 1958:

Most Hot 100 Top 10s
38, Madonna
35, Drake
34, The Beatles
31, Rihanna
30, Michael Jackson
28, Mariah Carey
28, Stevie Wonder
27, Janet Jackson
27, Elton John
25, Elvis Presley
24, Lil Wayne
24, Taylor Swift
23, Whitney Houston
23, Paul McCartney
23, The Rolling Stones
21, Eminem
21, JAY-Z
20, Chicago
20, The Supremes

Drake has notched all 35 of his Hot 100 top 10s in just under a full decade. He first reached the region with his debut entry "Best I Ever Had," which flew 27-3 (on its way to a No. 2 peak) on the chart dated July 4, 2009. He achieves the milestone the fastest, besting Madonna, who took 18 years, four months and three weeks between her first weeks in the top 10 with her first such hit ("Borderline" in 1984) and her 35th ("Die Another Day," 2002).

Drake additionally debuts at No. 35 on the Hot 100 with "Omertà" (16.6 million U.S. streams, 9,000 sold). He ups his count to 98 top 40 Hot 100 hits, pushing him further ahead of runners-up Lil Wayne and Elvis Presley, each with 81 (with Presley's career having predated the Hot 100's inception).

Drake has now amassed 196 total Hot 100 entries, the most among soloists and the second-best sum overall, after the Glee Cast's 207.

Also as noted above, Taylor Swift has now tallied 24 Hot 100 top 10s, as "You Need to Calm Down" blasts onto the chart at No. 2.