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Drake & PartyNextDoor’s ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ Breaks Apple Music Record

The highly-anticipated joint album dropped on Valentine's Day.

Drake & PartyNextDoor ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ Album Art

Drake & PartyNextDoor ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ Album Art

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Drake and PartyNextDoor’s new album has already setting records on Apple Music following its Valentine’s Day release.

After dropping on Friday (Feb. 14), the duo’s years-in-the-making project, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, has broken the record for the biggest R&B/soul album in Apple Music’s history by first-day streams worldwide.


Billboard has reached out to Apple Music for more details.

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U marks Drake’s first full album since 2023’s For All the Dogs, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It’s also his first major project since his explosive rap feud with Kendrick Lamar, which recently saw K. Dot take aim at the Toronto superstar during the Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 9, performing his Billboard Hot 100-topping diss track “Not Like Us” in front of more than 100 million viewers.’

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The 21-track album, with a 74-minute runtime, follows PartyNextDoor’s P4, released in 2024.

Earlier in the week, Drake brought out PND during a concert in Melbourne, where the OVO signee surprised the Australian crowd on Drake’s Anita Max Wynn Tour.

“I got an album coming out on Feb. 14 with my brother PartyNextDoor,” Drake told the crowd. “It’s called $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, but it’s some turned-up songs for you on there, too, and there’s some personal feelings on there for you. Hopefully, whoever you’re with on Valentine’s Day, hopefully y’all can share that experience together.”

Drake also revealed the cover art for $$4U, which features both artists rocking fur coats in front of the Marilyn Monroe Towers in Canada.

The duo has long demonstrated their strong chemistry on tracks like “Come and See Me,” “Recognize,” “Members Only,” “Loyal,” “Preach, “Since Way Back,” and others.

This article first appeared on Billboard U.S.

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