Drake has done it again. His ninth studio album, ICEMAN, has officially become the first rap album released in 2026 to surpass 2 billion streams on Spotify. The project, which dropped on May 15, reached the milestone in under four months, a testament to the Toronto rapper’s unmatched streaming dominance. It is now his record-extending 15th album to cross the 2 billion stream threshold, further solidifying his reign as the most commercially successful rapper of his generation.
The achievement is just the latest in a historic year for Drake. In May 2026, he generated a staggering 2.7 billion streams in a single month, a new all-time record for a rapper on Spotify. ICEMAN debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 463,000 equivalent album units, holding the top spot for two consecutive weeks. The album’s opening track, “Make Them Cry,” shattered records with 13.2 million streams in a single day, surpassing Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” for the biggest debut for a rap song in Spotify history. By September, ICEMAN had sold over two million units in the United States, making it eligible for Double-Platinum certification.
Drake’s streaming supremacy extends far beyond a single album. He holds the record for the most monthly listeners of any rapper ever and has been the most-streamed rapper on Spotify for 16 consecutive months as of June 2026. With 300 songs each surpassing 100 million streams, another Spotify record, his catalog depth remains untouched by any peer. As Drake continues to break records he already owns, the gap between him and the rest of hip-hop’s commercial field only grows wider.
