Drake has added another historic milestone to the ICEMAN era. The rapper officially debuts at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart this week with ICEMAN, while companion projects MAID OF HONOUR and HABIBTI arrive simultaneously at No. 6 and No. 7, making him the first artist in UK chart history to debut three studio albums inside the Top 10 at the same time.
The achievement gives Drake his seventh UK No. 1 album and raises his overall Top 10 tally in Britain to 17. According to Official Charts, the last artist to place three projects inside the UK Top 10 in a single week was Prince in 1993 with The Hits / The B-Sides, The Hits 1, and The Hits 2 — though those were compilation releases rather than brand-new studio albums.
The dominant UK performance arrives just days after Drake’s unprecedented global rollout on May 15, when he surprise-released ICEMAN alongside MAID OF HONOUR and HABIBTI following the final installment of his ICEMAN livestream series. Across the three albums, the Toronto superstar delivered 43 new tracks spanning trap, melodic rap, R&B, dancehall, and club production, creating one of the largest commercial releases of his career.
Streaming numbers immediately signaled the scale of the launch. Spotify confirmed that ICEMAN opened with 140.2 million first-day global streams, becoming the biggest album debut of 2026 and the second-largest hip-hop opening in platform history behind only Certified Lover Boy. Combined, the three albums generated more than 196 million Spotify streams in a single day, while Drake surpassed 250 million streams across all credits on May 15 — the highest one-day total ever recorded for a male artist on the platform.
The UK Singles Chart reflects similar domination. Although Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s “Rein Me In” secures a 12th week at No. 1, Drake still floods the Top 10 with “Janice STFU” at No. 2, “National Treasures” at No. 3, and “Make Them Cry” at No. 6. The latest placements push his career total to 50 UK Top 10 singles.
Momentum surrounding ICEMAN has extended well beyond Britain. Earlier this week, Hits Daily Double projected the album to debut atop the Billboard 200 with roughly 475,000 equivalent album units in the United States, while MAID OF HONOUR and HABIBTI are also expected to land inside the Top 3. If finalized, Drake would become the first artist in Billboard-era history to debut three albums simultaneously inside the chart’s Top 3.
Elsewhere on the UK Albums Chart, renewed interest in Michael Jackson’s catalog continues following the release of the Michael biopic, with The Essential Michael Jackson, Thriller, Bad, and Off The Wall all appearing inside this week’s Top 40.
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