“I got more slaps than the Beatles,” Drake boasted on Meek Mill’s “Going Bad.” And now he has the tattoo to prove it.
Drake just got a tattoo of himself standing in front of the four Beatles walking in a line inspired by the iconic Abbey Road album cover, which was shot exactly 50 years ago this week.
After Scorpion came out in June 2018, Drake surpassed the Beatles’ record for most songs simultaneously in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10 (seven to five). By October, he had gotten 12 Top 10 tracks in a single year, beating the Beatles’ record of 11 set in 1964.
And in June of this year, he passed the Beatles for the second-most Top 10s ever, 35 to Madonna’s 38.
As an entrepreneur, Drake has founded the OVO Sound record label with longtime collaborator 40. Drake gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the early 2000s. Intent on pursuing a career in music, he left the series in 2007 after releasing his debut mixtape, Room for Improvement.
He released two further independent projects, Comeback Season and So Far Gone, before signing to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment in June 2009.
Drake released his debut studio album Thank Me Later in 2010, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and was soon certified platinum. His fourth album, Views (2016), broke several chart records.
The dancehall-influenced album sat atop the Billboard 200 for 13 nonconsecutive weeks becoming the first album by a male solo artist to do so in over 10 years. The album’s second single, “One Dance”, topped the charts in several countries, and became his first number-one single as a lead artist. That year, Drake led both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 charts simultaneously for eight weeks.
Among the world’s best-selling music artists, with over 150 million records sold worldwide, he is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the world’s highest-certified digital singles artist. Drake holds several Billboard chart records. He has the most charted songs (186) among solo artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, the most simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs in a single week (27), and the most time on the Hot 100 (431 weeks). Drake has also won four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, twenty-seven Billboard Music Awards and three Juno Awards.
