Drake Breaks Spotify’s 2026 Single-Day Records With Iceman and “Make Them Cry”

Drake is back in familiar territory: setting streaming records on the way in. On Friday, May 15, Spotify said the Toronto rapper had become the platform’s most-streamed artist in a single day in 2026, while his new album Iceman claimed the year’s single-day album record and “Make Them Cry” emerged as the most-streamed song in a single day this year so far.

The numbers arrived alongside a busy release day that saw Drake put out three albums at once. Iceman was the headline project, but it landed with surprise companions Maid of Honour and Habibti, a rollout that turned what might have been a standard solo return into a much larger streaming event. For Spotify, that meant a fresh set of benchmarks. For Drake, it marked his first new solo project since 2023.

“On May 15th, Drake became Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2026 in a single day, ICEMAN became the most-streamed album of 2026 in a single day, and ‘Make Them Cry’ became the most-streamed song in a single day in 2026 so far,” the company wrote across its social channels late Friday.

The records also help frame just how quickly Drake can still dominate the platform when he decides to move. His last solo album, For All the Dogs, arrived in 2023, and last year he released Some Sexy Songs 4 U with fellow Canadian artist PARTYNEXTDOOR. Iceman is therefore his first solo statement in two years, and its instant performance suggests the streaming economy remains unusually responsive to him, even in a year already producing its own landmarks.

Before Drake took the top spot, BTS’ ARIRANG held Spotify’s 2026 single-day album record after its March release. The new Drake project also folds that coincidence into its own mythology, since he name-drops the South Korean group on “Make Them Cry,” the song that set the new mark. In an Instagram Stories clip posted Friday by BTS’ V, he appears with J-Hope, the pair dancing as the track plays, before Drake raps, “I’m feeling like BTS, ’cause it took the whole career for me to be so discovered.” The moment ends with both performers freezing and staring at the camera, visibly surprised.

Drake performs live on stage during day two of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 12, 2025 in London, England.

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