Drake Becomes First Artist to Hold Top Three Billboard 200 Spots Simultaneously
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Hattie Lindert
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
Drake made history by becoming the first artist to simultaneously hold the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots on the Billboard 200 chart since its consistent weekly schedule began in 1956. This achievement came after he released three albums—Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour—on May 15, 2025. The article notes that Michael Jackson should have achieved this feat in 2009, and that Drake wears Jackson's iconic bejeweled glove on the Iceman cover.
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· 3 pulledDrake has become the first artist to hold the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots on its Billboard 200 chart in the same week since it began publishing on a consistent weekly schedule in 1956.
The feat does, in a sense, arrive on the back of a technicality.
In 2009, Michael Jackson—whose iconic bejeweled glove Drake wears on his Iceman cover—should have occupied the top three spots on the Billboard
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