With Drake and Taylor Swift Doing It in Back-to-Back Weeks, Are Four-Song Bonuses Now the Move for Pop Stars’ Deluxe Editions?
Categoria: Musica
This week's Five Burning Questions looks at Drake's new quartet of 'HABIBTI' bonus cuts taking swarming this week's Hot 100.
Por Billboard | 14/10/2026
It was released as the third of the three-pack of new albums Drake dropped to stunned audiences this May. But now, HABIBTI is the first album from the triple-release to get its own deluxe edition, with four new tracks debuting two Fridays ago (Oct. 2). The quartet of tracks comprising the bonus material on HABIBTI (FOMO) — subtitled after the hour-long visual Drake released in September, which featured the new tracks for the first time, along with several other HABIBTI cuts — all appear on this week’s Hot 100, led by the Don Tolliver-featuring (and Ella Langley-lifting) “Solar Eclipse” at No. 5. These tracks swarm the Hot 100 just a week after Drake’s fellow megastar Taylor Swift did the same with a quartet of new bonus tracks off her own recent deluxe edition, The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore . Is there something to the four-track-bonus release strategy? And can Drake now call it a wrap for his 2026? Billboard staffers answer these questions and more below. 1. Drake notches four combined chart debuts and reentries this week from his HABIBTI bonus cuts, with “Solar Eclipse” with Don Toliver debuting at No. 5, “Quebec” at No. 11 and “Cold Shoulder” (also with Don Toliver, and Yebba) at No. 18, while “Classic” re-enters at a new No. 28 high following the release of the new “Classic Pt. 2.” Is this all better, worse or about what you would’ve expected from the performance of the new four-pack? Kyle Denis : This is exactly what I suspected. The “Choosin’ Texas” flip debuts the highest, the equally buzzy “Quebec” lands right outside the top 10 and the rest of the songs make the top 30. Business as usual for Drizzy Drake. Lyndsey Havens : About what I’d expect! A top five debut is admirable, and even more so when you realize the four songs ahead of it are all country or country-leaning. In a relatively sleepy year for hip-hop and rap on the Hot 100, Drake’s four-pack performance proves that the interest is still there. Carl Lamarre : I’m fine with this. Drake delivered an impressive 1-2-3 debut this past May on the Billboard 200. Led by ICEMAN , Drake leapfrogged Jay-Z for the most No. 1 albums among solo male artists (15) and surpassed the King of Pop for the most No. 1s on the Hot 100 among male soloists. Skating past Jigga and MJ in the same calendar year is already bonkers. Some may call this a failure or a product of Drake fatigue, but at this point in his career, Drizzy is merely collecting sonic coins for the hell of it. Michael Saponara : I expected a little bit better, but Drake appeared to be hurt by premiering the four-pack in the FOMO short film a few weeks earlier, which took away from the allure of the set being brand new since fans knew what was coming and had already heard the tracks. Tucking the set at No. 12 through No. 15 on the track list as part of the HABIBTI (FOMO) deluxe didn’t do him any favors either. Andrew Unterberger : Fo