Every Drake No. 1 Song Explained
Drake's Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 history is a map of his commercial range: Rihanna collaborations, solo streaming records, viral dance moments, rap collaborations, and album-week chart surges. This guide summarizes why each No. 1 mattered without quoting lyrics.
Featured And Collaboration No. 1s
"What's My Name?" by Rihanna featuring Drake showed early mainstream chemistry and put Drake inside a pop-R&B hit before his own solo No. 1 run began.
"Work" by Rihanna featuring Drake was bigger and more culturally durable, connecting Caribbean rhythm, pop minimalism, and the Rihanna-Drake public dynamic at global scale.
"Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott featuring Drake is a structure-shifting rap event record. Drake's presence is part of the song's surprise architecture, and the record's No. 1 status reinforced how features could still define a chart moment.
"Wait for U" by Future featuring Drake and Tems extended Drake's No. 1 footprint into a melancholic rap-R&B collaboration, with Tems' presence giving the record a distinct emotional and global texture.
Solo And Lead-Artist No. 1s
"One Dance" is the turning point: Drake's first solo-led Hot 100 No. 1 and the clearest Views-era proof that he could dominate global pop without abandoning his vocal identity.
"God's Plan" became a streaming-era anthem and one of Drake's most broadly accessible records. Its chart run paired musical simplicity with a highly visible public-good video narrative.
"Nice for What" flipped a classic R&B sample into a bounce-driven celebration record and showed Drake's ability to make a women-centered single without leaning on lyric quotation or overexplaining the sample.
"In My Feelings" became inseparable from social-video culture. The song's chart life is a case study in how Drake's hooks, dance challenges, and internet behavior can accelerate each other.
"Toosie Slide" arrived during the early pandemic period and was built for social-platform movement. Its No. 1 debut says as much about distribution strategy as it does about the record itself.
"Way 2 Sexy" with Future and Young Thug turned Certified Lover Boy's release week into an immediate chart event. It is playful, sample-aware, and intentionally unserious in a way that still worked at superstar scale.
"Jimmy Cooks" with 21 Savage closed Honestly, Nevermind with a rap pivot and became the album's chart-dominant moment, foreshadowing the Her Loss partnership.
"First Person Shooter" with J. Cole became historically important beyond its No. 1 peak because it helped set the comparison frame that Kendrick Lamar later rejected in the 2024 feud cycle.
How To Read The Pattern
Drake's No. 1s are rarely one type of record. Some are pop-R&B collaborations, some are rap events, some are sample-driven singles, and some are platform-native moments. That range is why his chart story belongs beside the album guide, the Kendrick timeline, and the producer pages.
Source Notes
This guide relies on Billboard chart-history context and Drake Universe song and album metadata. Chart totals can change if new No. 1s arrive, so same-day 2026 releases are not added until official chart outcomes exist.
