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Happy 39th Birthday to the gorgeous, massively talented, chart-topping, history-making, multiple Grammy-winning Rapper, Singer, Producer, Actor, Entrepreneur, Designer, Global Icon, Hip Hop Legend and Most-streamed Rapper in history, the One & Only Drake! 👏🎂🎉🌟🐐👑🖤 #Drake is one of the best-selling artists of all Time, blending rap, R&B, and pop with unprecedented commercial dominance. He has sold over 180 million units globally and is the best-selling Male Artist in US history and the highest-certified digital singles Artist as per the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He has the most Diamond certified songs in history with 15. His highest-certified single is "God's Plan" which was certified 16× Platinum! He's also the most-streamed artist across all genres on Spotify, with over 121 Billion total streams! In 2024, he was named by Billboard as the 4th greatest pop star of the 21st century! Drake holds nearly All Billboard Records for a Male Artist! He has achieved 14 Billboard 200 number-one albums, a record among Male Soloists which he shares with Jay Z, and 2nd overall among Soloists after Taylor Swift! He ties Michael Jackson as the Male Solo Artist with the Most No. 1 hits (13) in Billboard Hot 100 history! He also holds the records for the most Hot 100 top 10 singles (81), the most top 40 singles (217), the most entries (359) and the Most consecutive weeks on the chart (431)! He also has the most top 10 debuts, the most top 10 singles in a calendar year (13) and the most songs peaking at #2 on the chart. He also has the most No. 1 singles on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the Hot Rap Songs chart and the Rhythmic Airplay chart! In 2021, Drake became the 2nd act to occupy the entire Hot 100 top 5 in a single week after #theBeatles in 1964. He is also the only artist to have two albums log 400 weeks each on the Billboard 200! Drake's first 3 albums, 'Thank Me Later' (2010), 'Take Care' (2011) and 'Nothing Was the Same' (2013) all debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 global smash hit singles "Find Your Love", "Take Care" ft. Rihanna, "Started from the Bottom", and "Hold On, We're Going Home" ft. Majid Jordan. His 4th studio album 'Views' (2016) topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks and spawned the global smash hit single "Hotline Bling" which hit #2 on the Hot 100 and the Hot 100 chart-topping global smash hit "One Dance" ft. WizKid & Kyla, which has been credited for helping popularize dancehall and Afrobeats in contemporary American music. His 5th studio album 'Scorpion' (2018), spawned 3 Hot 100 No. 1 global smash hit singles: "God's Plan", "Nice for What", and "In My Feelings". His 6th album, 'Certified Lover Boy' (2021), set a new record for most US top-ten songs (9) from one album with its lead single, "Way 2 Sexy" ft. Future and Young Thug reaching No. 1. In 2022, he dropped the house-inspired album 'Honestly, Nevermind' and his collaborative album 'Her Loss' with 21 Savage which spawned Billboard Hot 100 #1 single "Jimmy Cooks". His 8th album, 'For All the Dogs' (2023), produced his 12th and 13th US Hot 100 No. 1s, "Slime You Out" ft. SZA and "First Person Shooter" ft. J. Cole. In 2024, Drake released the hit tracks "Push Ups", "Taylor Made Freestyle", "Family Matters", and "The Heart Part 6" as disses to Kendrick Lamar! On February 14, 2025, Drake released 'Some Sexy Songs 4 U', a collaborative album with PartyNextDoor which broke the first-day streaming record for the most streamed R&B/Soul album in the history of Apple Music! It earned a total of 287.04 million on-demand streams in its debut week, the largest streaming week of 2025 for any album and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, replacing 'GNX' by Kendrick Lamar and tying the Billboard record with Jay-Z and Taylor Swift for most number one albums by a Solo Artist (14)! 'Some Sexy Songs 4 U' debuted at No. 1 in Canada, marking Party's first and Drake's 15th chart topper! On February 16, 2025, it was announced that Drake would be the first artist in history to headline all three days at the 2025 Wireless Festival. Drake became the fastest artist to sell out the festival in its history, selling all tickets in minutes! Right after the festival, Drake kicked off his 'Some Special Shows 4 U' tour in Europe including the UK! On July 5, 2025, Drake dropped the single "What Did I Miss?", the lead track to his hugely awaited 9th studio album 'Iceman', which will mark his first full-length solo release since his 8th album 'For All the Dogs' (2023). The album was also preceded by "Which One" featuring British rapper Central Cee, and "Dog House" featuring American rapper Yeat and singer Julia Wolf! Drake has won 281 Awards during his career including 5 Grammy Awards from 51 nominations, 7 American Music Awards, 42 Billboard Music Awards out of 102 Nominations, 15 BET Awards out of 50 nominations, 7 MTV VMAs out of 49 nominations, 2 MTV Europe Music Awards, 2 Brit Awards, 6 Soul Train Awards, 6 Juno Awards, 11 iHeartRadio Titanium Awards for 1B+ spins & 13 SOCAN Awards among others! He was the most streamed artist of the 2010s on Spotify and was named Artist of the Decade at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards! From 2015 to 2017, Drake ranked in the top 5 of the Billboard Year-End chart for Top Artists, and was the No. Artist in 2018. He was named the best-selling Global Recording Artist of 2016 and 2018 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)! Drake is also a very successful entrepreneur, and founded the OVO Sound record label in 2012. In 2013, he became the "global ambassador" of the Toronto Raptors. In 2016, he became a partner of the bourbon whiskey Virginia Black. Drake heads the OVO fashion label and the Nocta collaboration with Nike, Inc.. He also founded the production company 'DreamCrew' and the fragrance house 'Better World'. In 2018, he was responsible for 5 percent (CAD$440 million) of Toronto's CAD$8.8 billion annual tourism income! Drake has garnered numerous endorsement deals with Sprite, Burger King, White Castle & Whataburger and is the Ambassador of the online Gambling company Stake.com! On his 39th birthday, Drake received 16 new RIAA platinum/diamond certifications, solidifying his sales dominance!