Drake may have suffered a devastating defeat to Kendrick Lamar last year, but that doesn’t appear to have damaged his popularity.
Despite his reputation taking a hit in the heavyweight rap battle, the 6 God has reclaimed his commercial crown by being named the most-streamed artist of 2025 by Apple Music.
Though the platform has not disclosed his streaming figures as part of its annual “Apple Music Replay” feature, Drizzy has put out plenty of material this year that has boosted his already staggering box score.
Released in February, his $ome $exy $ongs 4 U album with PARTYNEXTDOOR debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with almost 250,000 first-week sales while breaking the record for the most first-day streams on Apple Music for an R&B/Soul album.
.@Drake is our most-streamed artist this year. Who’s your top artist? #AppleMusicReplay pic.twitter.com/YZgWbHDVXT
— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) December 2, 2025
The collaborative project also made a splash on the singles charts thanks to “Nokia” and “Gimme a Hug,” both of which cracked the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Nokia” is Drake’s biggest song on Apple Music this year, ranking as the 13th most-streamed song on the platform.
Drake further heated things up with “What Did I Miss?” and the Central Cee-assisted “Which One,” potential offerings from his forthcoming album Iceman.
Aubrey’s archrival Kendrick Lamar also put numbers on the board this year, appearing multiple times in Apple Music’s Top Songs of 2025 global playlist.
His record-breaking “Luther” collaboration with SZA is the second most-streamed song behind Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “Apt.,” making it the most popular hip-hop and R&B song on the platform this year.
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick’s Grammy-winning Drake diss that dominated 2024, is still going strong sitting at number four on the list, while “30 For 30” with SZA (No. 10), “TV Off” (No. 11), “Squabble Up” (No. 22) and “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin (No. 35) also make the cut.
Even years-old tracks like “All the Stars” and “Money Trees” make the top 100, with the former boosted by its inclusion in Kendrick and SZA’s historic Super Bowl halftime show in February.
Check out Apple Music’s full Top Songs of 2025 playlist below, and discover your personal Apple Music Replay here.
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Because he’s a fruity pop singer, not a rapper
Agree 💯 percent 👍🏽
Not really it’s fake stats. No one is listening to drake what has he released? Garbage collab album everyone forgot. This is all fake to avoid the lawsuit it’s clear.
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And the third gayest rapper on planet earth after Diddy and Lil Nas X
We forgetting Eminem? Dr. Dre? Tupac? Snoop? LL? You may want to look back at ye past over just memes. Kendrick wearing mom jeans isn’t weird and bedazzled stuff? ASAP Rocky commercial doesn’t raise a red flag to you him hugging a tranny or all the awful female rappers?
Drake is gay and anybody making excuses for him is too
We just going to ignore Jay Z? I mean Diddy was his brother. Uzi and Carti, Desstroy, and Ken Carson just going to ignore them? ASAP Rocky fashion stuff, Tyler the creator, theres a ton more in the closet but have shown signs. Birdman look what he did to Lil Wayne and the hot boys. 50 Cent clearly in the closet with Dre and Eminem. Kendrick too with all of TDE. JCole and NLE they cross dress then use pro black as a shield to cover it.
Fuck Gay-Z
but but but but i thought everyone was listening to luther???? song of the millennium!
but but but I thought you were too busy getting pounded out by your boyfriend to care about music.
Fake this is all to avoid the lawsuit so he has nothing to stand on. His case is Kendrick lying on him and being allowed to do so by UMG hurt his stock and was their plan to hurt him in talks with negotiations of new contracts or business ventures should he wish to go independent which would crater the industry despite Drake never successfully pushing artists through OVO. His last project was trash and Iceman sounds awful especially with Central Cee and even Yeat who glaze him. He needs a rebrand heard rumors it might happen
Yeah no. Carti dropped this year, YoungBoy was the biggest artist this year, Ye dominated streaming numbers. Not Drake