The 15 Best Drake Songs, Ranked

The best Drake songs span 17 years, three chart eras and two completely different jobs — rapper and pop vocalist — and this ranked list covers all of them, from the 2009 mixtape So Far Gone to Iceman, the album he released on May 15, 2026 through OVO Sound and Republic Records.

How this list of the best Drake songs was ranked

Three things decide the order: what the song did commercially, what it changed inside his own catalog, and whether people still play it a decade later. A record that spent months at No. 1 but never reappeared in a setlist ranks below a deep cut that rewired an entire lane of rap singing. Solo and lead-artist tracks are eligible; guest verses on other artists’ songs are not, which is why “Wait for U” and “Sicko Mode” sit outside the list.

Why “Marvins Room” tops the list

“Marvins Room” is the most copied Drake record ever made. Built around a drunk late-night phone call and a beat by Noah “40” Shebib that leaves most of the frequency range empty, it turned a vocal register — half-sung, self-pitying, unflattering on purpose — into a permanent option for rappers. Nearly every emo-rap, cloud-rap and plugg vocalist who followed is working somewhere downstream of it. It was never his biggest single; it is the one that changed the most.

Which Drake song is his biggest hit?

By raw chart dominance, “God’s Plan” wins. Released January 19, 2018 as part of the Scary Hours pair, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 11 weeks on top, the longest run of his career. “One Dance” is close behind: it gave Drake his first No. 1 as a lead artist in 2016, held the spot for 10 weeks, and became the first track to pass one billion streams on Spotify. “In My Feelings” and “Nice for What” made 2018 the year he effectively lived at No. 1, and “Jimmy Cooks” proved in 2022 that a straight rap record could still get him there.

Where do the Iceman-era songs land?

“Janice STFU” earns the last slot because it did what a 2026 Drake single had to do: it went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 and held it, and it dragged the whole Iceman rollout with it. The album opened with 463,000 album-equivalent units and stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for three straight weeks, the longest rap reign since October 2024 — and Drake released Habibti and Maid of Honour the same day, becoming the first artist to hold the top three positions on the Billboard 200 at once. Full breakdown in our report on Iceman’s third week at No. 1 and the Iceman tracklist and features.

The rest of the era is too young to rank. Give the deep cuts on Habibti two years of streaming data before anyone claims one belongs above “Passionfruit.”

What got left out?

Five records that would make most other top-15s and missed this one: “0 to 100/The Catch Up” (2014), “Energy” (2015), “Nonstop” (2018), “Chicago Freestyle” (2020) and “Rich Baby Daddy” with SZA and Sexyy Red (2023). “In My Feelings” is the most defensible omission to argue with — it spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in 2018 — but it belongs to a summer more than to a catalog, and every song above it still gets played on purpose rather than by accident.

What’s next?

Drake has not announced a follow-up to the May 2026 trilogy. The things worth watching are whether Iceman‘s singles keep converting into Hot 100 entries, and whether the Habibti material gets its own rollout rather than staying a companion release. Track it through our Drake coverage hub. Chart figures cited here come from Billboard’s Drake chart history.