Drake’s Habibti is the No. 1 album on the overall Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart dated October 17, 2026, the first time the R&B-leaning record has led that list since it arrived in May. It takes over from its sibling album Iceman, which held the spot a week earlier, and it also tops the separate R&B albums chart.
The trigger was Habibti (FOMO), a reissue released on October 2 through OVO Sound and Republic Records. It adds four songs, taking the album from 11 tracks to 15 and from 36 minutes to just over 49: “Solar Eclipse” with Don Toliver, “Quebec,” “Cold Shoulder” with Toliver and Yebba, and “Classic PT2.” Fans first heard the material in Fear of Missing Out, the short film Drake premiered on YouTube on September 15.
The numbers behind the jump
On the main US albums chart, Habibti leapt from No. 116 to No. 2 with 71,000 album-equivalent units in the week ending October 8, a 506% rise. Almost all of it was streaming: close to 70,000 units. That matches the album’s debut peak in May, when it opened with 114,000 units behind Iceman at No. 1 and ahead of Maid of Honour at No. 3, the first time any artist held the top three places at once.
Put those weeks side by side and the reissue’s pull is clear. The October week delivered about 62% of the debut total (71,000 against 114,000) and was larger than the album’s second week in May (52,000) and third week (43,000). Pure sales stayed small throughout: in the opening week they were 6,000 of 114,000, roughly 5%.
Contrast that with the other catalog story on the same chart. Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine returned to the top 10 the same week on a reissue where purchases made up more than half its units. Drake’s audience streams; Miller’s estate sold vinyl.
A country song in the engine room
The new tracks also produced a single. “Solar Eclipse” opened at No. 5 on the Hot 100, Toliver’s highest-charting song to date and Drake’s record-extending 91st top-10 hit. The record borrows from two directions at once: it interpolates Ella Langley’s country hit “Choosin’ Texas,” credited to Langley, Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor, and samples “Get Throwed,” the Bun B track featuring Pimp C, Z-Ro, Young Jeezy and Jay-Z. Noel Cadastre produced it.
The crossover is not accidental. Drake played “Choosin’ Texas” in a Houston club in June, turned up at Langley’s Little Rock, Arkansas, show on August 22 and previewed a reworked version from a DJ booth in Toronto later that month. Langley’s original sits at No. 2 on the same Hot 100, three places above the remix it inspired. These are also Drake’s first collaborations with Toliver, whose own album Octane spent several weeks at No. 1 on the R&B/hip hop chart earlier in 2026.
“Cold Shoulder,” the Toliver and Yebba song, is credited to producers O Lil Angel, B4U, London Cyr, 40 and Ohh!, and is the reissue’s official single.
How dominant has Drake been?
Counting the weekly chart history for 2026, Drake’s albums have now led the overall R&B/hip hop albums chart in 15 of the 21 weeks since his triple release, every issue from May 30 to July 18, three weeks in August, two more at the turn of September, October 10 and now October 17. That is about 71% of the weeks since May (15 divided by 21), and 15 of the year’s 42 chart weeks overall. Iceman accounts for 14 of those; Habibti has one.
Critics were split on Habibti in May, with an aggregate score of 59 out of 100, and the FOMO tracks do not change its shape: it remains Drake’s shortest album at its standard length, built on slow, R&B-leaning production from 40, Gordo and O Lil Angel among others.
The next marker is radio. “Cold Shoulder” is listed for release as a single on October 16, the Friday that opens a new US tracking week.
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