Drake makes Hot 100 history with 'Scary Hours 2' EP

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated 3/15/21

Aubrey Drake Graham simply does not miss.

Drake released three-track EP "Scary Hours 2" through OVO Sound/Republic Records on March 5, and all three songs made him the first artist in history to monopolize Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Billboard Hot 100:

.@Drake becomes the first artist in history to debut at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the #Hot100 in the same week:

#1, What's Next
#2, Wants and Needs ft. @lilbaby4PF
#3, Lemon Pepper Freestyle ft. @RickRoss
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) March 15, 2021

The #Hot100 top 10 (chart dated March 20, 2021)
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) March 15, 2021

Billboard's Gary Trust added more context: "The week's top four songs on the Hot 100 are all debuts for the first time in the chart's six-decade history—as, below Drake's three-song launch, Silk Sonic's "Leave the Door Open" enters at No. 4. The duo comprises Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak."

The 34-year-old Toronto native predicted this would happen in the second verse of "What's Next": "I'm on the hot one hundo, numero uno," which also could have been referencing his all-time-most 208th Hot 100 entry last March. That record, it seems, will just continue to climb for as long as Drake keeps releasing new music.

OVO faithful are still waiting for Drake's sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy, which was originally due in January but postponed because the four-time Grammy winner was tied up in recovering from knee surgery he underwent last fall. The project is expected this year, and maybe even before summer.

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