Drake scores a three-peat as he reigns as the year-end top R&B/hip-hop artist for the third straight year and fourth time overall. (In addition to his current trifecta, he first led the tally in 2012.) The superstar’s latest coronation makes him the first act to have four year-end No. 1 finishes since R. Kelly took the crown in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2001.
Drake’s 2017 coronation comes largely thanks to his playlist album More Life, which ruled the weekly Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for four weeks and sent 21 of its 22 tracks onto the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, including the top 10 hits “Passionfruit” (No. 5) and the Quavo and Travis Scott-assisted “Portland” (No. 6). More Life also sustained Drake’s status as a streaming dynamo, becoming the first album to pass 375 million on-demand audio streams of its songs in a single week, according to Nielsen Music.
Drake leads a male-dominated recap, with the top 12 acts of the year’s top R&B/hip-hop artists ranking either solo men or all-male groups. Rihanna is the year’s top female R&B/hip-hop artist, finishing at No. 13 on the overall tally. With the shut-out, 2017 marks the first year that no women appear in the top 10 of the annual recap since 1983. That year, Michael Jackson led an all-male top 10, with Donna Summer, at No. 11, serving as the highest-ran
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