Drake Quietly Sneaks Back Into The Top 10 Of The Hot 100 With "NOKIA"

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Drake currently has four placements from his PARTYNEXTDOOR collab album on the Hot 100 chart, so can we really say numbers are suppressed?

"Who's callin' the Billboard Hot 100? (Who's callin' that sh*t)?" It's Drake and he's doing so with his $ome $exy $ongs 4 U hit "NOKIA." The playful club banger has already been doing pretty well on the chart. But thanks to releases from Playboi Carti and his arch nemesis Kendrick Lamar still doing numbers off of his rap beef loss, it's fallen out of the upper echelon. However, this week, that's going to change. When the lists update tomorrow, April 1, "NOKIA" will re-enter the top 10 and slot in at the seventh spot. That's going to be its highest position to date. Its previous best was when it debuted at number eight. Most notably, it's going to leapfrog Lamar's "Not Like Us, bumping it to ninth.

Last week, "NOKIA" was just outside of the first ten slots at 11. Of course, this is big considering just how much streaming services and radio stations have been "suppressing" Drake since the public drubbing he took in 2024 and to an extent in 2025. Sarcasm aside though, this is a nice win for The Boy. He definitely can use as many as possible. His year has already been fairly up and down thanks to this ongoing dispute between him and his parent label, UMG. The latter is trying to dismiss the lawsuit over "Not Like Us" entirely and they have sent some scathing replies in the process.

Drake "NOKIA" Music Video

The status on that situation remains up in the air at the time of writing. But back to "NOKIA," Drake recently promised that a music video was going to be out very soon. In fact, it was actually supposed to hit YouTube just this past Friday, March 28. He made that announcement on an Instagram Story on March 23; however, that didn't happen. Instead, on March 25, he pushed it back to today, March 31.

When it's actually going to premiere remains a mystery. With that in mind, be sure to keep refreshing his page. It's going to be a viral music video for sure and hopefully will have some interesting details buried within it. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U has been out since Valentine's Day and is going to be eligible for gold certification status as it has sold over 500,000 units already.

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Zachary Horvath is one of the Music Freelance News Writers at HotNewHipHop and has held that title since August 2023. Prior to this position, he held another freelance gig covering local high school football, girls and boys varsity basketball, in addition to recapping Cleveland Cavaliers games remotely. He's taken the previous experience and used it to become a jack of all trades at HotNewHipHop. Zach has thoroughly enjoyed tackling some of the trending topics in sports, with a larger focus on hip-hop and pop culture. Some of those include Bronny James's draft stock, a multitude of angles swirling around the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef, as well as Diddy's arrest and lawsuits. Separate from the headlines that everyone wants to hear about, he was fortunate enough to help spread Zaytoven's current thoughts at the time around mid-December in 2023. Even though being able to give his expertise on these stories is fulfilling, being able to share his passion for releases trumps that ever so slightly. Having the chance to express his excitement indirectly about what he thinks our readers should be checking out/revisiting grows his passion for writing that much more.

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