When The Temptations sent Gettin' Ready to No. 1 on Billboard's R&B albums chart in July 1966, they became the first act with three chart-toppers on a ranking that was only 18 months old, and for the next 60 years no artist finished a week holding more.

That changed on the chart dated Oct. 17, when Drake lifted HABIBTI from No. 35 to No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and took sole possession of the record with his 18th leader. Future and The Temptations stay tied behind him at 17 apiece.

The climb came from an expansion rather than a new album. HABIBTI (FOMO), released Oct. 2, attached four songs to the 11 tracks that arrived on May 15: "Solar Eclipse" with Don Toliver, the solo cut "Quebec," "Cold Shoulder" with Toliver and Yebba, and "Classic PT2." Billboard combines every version of an album into a single chart line, so the new material and the original sequence counted as one title.

According to Luminate, the album earned 71,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the Oct. 2 to 8 tracking week, a 506 percent jump over the prior frame. Nearly 70,000 of those units came from streaming, and traditional sales barely registered, which is how a five-month-old record with four new songs bolted back up the rankings in a single week.

HABIBTI had never topped this chart before. When the album arrived in May as one third of a simultaneous release, it debuted at No. 2 behind Drake's own ICEMAN, with MAID OF HONOUR landing alongside them in the same week the three projects filled the top three spots of the Billboard 200.

Five months later the order flipped. HABIBTI took the top spot directly from ICEMAN, which had spent 14 weeks at No. 1 since its May 30 debut, the longest reign of any Drake album on the list. Billboard counted it as the first time an act replaced itself at the summit since May 2024, when Future and Metro Boomin's We Don't Trust You handed the position to their sequel, We Still Don't Trust You.

On the all-genre Billboard 200, the same week of listening moved HABIBTI from No. 116 to No. 2, stopping behind Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl in its 14th week on top. We broke down how four songs moved that album 114 spots when the chart posted last week, and the R&B/hip-hop crown arrived from the same 71,000 units.

The Temptations built their total across nine years, from Gettin' Ready in the summer of 1966 to A Song for You, their 17th leader, in May 1975. Every one of those albums was ranked on sales alone, because Billboard's R&B/hip-hop albums chart counted only purchases until February 2017, when it moved to equivalent units that fold streaming activity and track sales into one figure.

Drake's 18 straddle that switch. Six of them, beginning with Thank Me Later on the chart dated July 3, 2010, and running through Views in May 2016, were sales-era No. 1s. The remaining 12, starting with More Life in April 2017, were scored under the multimetric formula that now governs the chart, the same formula that turned a streaming surge for HABIBTI into a record.

Three of the 18 carry shared billing. What a Time To Be Alive with Future reached No. 1 in October 2015, Her Loss with 21 Savage followed in November 2022, and $ome $exy $ongs 4 U with PARTYNEXTDOOR led the chart in March 2025, so one album sits inside both Drake's 18 and Future's 17.

Future pulled even with Drake and the Motown group on the chart dated July 25, when The Real Me debuted at No. 1, the same release that gave him a 12th No. 1 on the Billboard 200. His tie at the summit lasted 12 weeks before Drake moved past him.

Below the top three, JAY-Z holds 14 No. 1s on the list and Ye has 13. At 10 apiece, Aretha Franklin, the Isley Brothers and Stevie Wonder share a line with Mary J. Blige and Nas, with R. Kelly, Eminem and Lil Wayne between those groups.

The record counts albums that reached No. 1, not the weeks they spent there, and Drake's longest stays sit well apart from his newest entry. Take Care held the top for 12 weeks after reaching it on Dec. 3, 2011, For All the Dogs logged 11 weeks beginning in October 2023, and Certified Lover Boy led for 10 weeks from September 2021.

The singles charts moved with the album. "Solar Eclipse," which reworks Ella Langley's country hit "Choosin' Texas," opened at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for Drake's record-extending 33rd leader on that chart and the first of Toliver's career, after he had peaked at No. 3 three separate times, most recently with "Body" and "E85" earlier this year.

The same song started atop Hot R&B Songs for Drake's 10th No. 1 there and debuted at No. 5 on the Hot 100. "Quebec" entered at No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs, giving Drake his 33rd leader on that list, another all-time high.

All four additions first played inside FOMO, the film Drake premiered during a Sept. 15 YouTube livestream, and fans heard them there for 17 days before they reached streaming services on Oct. 2. The first full week of streaming produced the 71,000 units that put the album back on top.

Billboard lists HABIBTI with one week at No. 1 to date. The Temptations' count has not moved since A Song for You reached the top in May 1975. Drake drew even with them when ICEMAN debuted in May, and it took a deluxe edition of the album ICEMAN had kept at No. 2 to finally move him past.