Drake: Billboard Records & Streaming Dominance

Welcome to the Drake music analytics project. This site examines Drake’s historic career through thousands of data points—combining 2,569 weekly Billboard Hot 100 observations from TidyTuesday with over 140 billion Spotify streams from kworb.net and track telemetry from Songstats.

2,569

Billboard Chart Observations

140.7B

Total Spotify Streams

51

Weeks at #1

547

Spotify Charted Songs

Career Chart Trajectory (2,569 Observations)

The visualization below is constructed from 2,569 individual weekly chart appearances by Drake on the Billboard Hot 100 between 2009 and 2021. Every point captures a single week on the chart, colored by whether Drake was the primary lead artist or a featured collaborator. The trend lines illustrate how Drake maintained an unbroken top-tier chart presence across more than a decade.

Explore Interactive Billboard Data → Read Story: The Feature Effect →

Spotify Streaming Dominance

Alongside his historical Billboard dominance, Drake is one of the most-streamed artists in Spotify history, accumulating over 140 billion streams.

Browse Full 500-Song Spotify Catalog →