This event—normally a mere humblebrag in the world of celebrity dating—wouldn't be so impactful if it didn't come at the tail end of a year that saw Drizzy cemented his title as the world's biggest hip-pop artist/Twitter rapper (even if VIEWS, his fourth studio album, failed to deliver on the hype set by many fans and critics.)Here's a condensed list of his achievements in 2016:A photo posted by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Dec 27, 2016 at 11:38pm PST
VIEWS, released in very-late April (to just "meh" reviews), still went multi-platinum in record-breaking time. Up until the Weeknd rampaged through the Billboard charts with his own album, Drake was the first and only artist to achieve 1 billion streams on Spotify and Apple Music. (He was also crowned Spotify's most-streamed artist of the year.)
He dated Rihanna for the summer and together they made two of the year's biggest hits—"Work" and "Too Good." Between a slew of concerts and two separate tours, Drake and Rihanna built the Aubrih brand to a new level of rabid fandom—mostly thanks to constant videos posted to social media of the two grinding the fuck out of each other on stage at every show.
Drake reportedly dated Serena Williams for a brief period of time, and was quickly blamed for being a distraction in her life by fans—a distraction so big that he might've have contributed to her stunning loss at the US Open semifinals.
Drake now officially has more number one singles than the Beatles, which makes him the GOAT ("I JUST HIT THE BEAT AND FLOAT").
He might have had a fling with Taylor Swift.