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Drake

Fifteen years at the top of the charts, sorted into the songs, the writing and the albums.

Albums graded
19
Critic’s grade
Highest grade
Average grade
Graded S
4
Span
2009 to 2026

No. 2 on Top 10: Rap Discographies, graded S as a body of work.

Drake in the Showcase

Every album

19 albums, 2009 to 2026, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.

The career, graded
2009 to 2026

S tier

A tier

B tier

C tier

D tier

The records

Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.

  1. 2026HabibtiThirty six minutes of loverboy autopilot, the shortest album he has made and still padded.
  2. 2026IcemanEighteen tracks of a man refusing to concede, and the first Drake album in years with a pulse in it.
  3. 2026Maid of HonourThe best beats across the three albums, and the worst writing he has ever laid over any of them.
  4. 2025$ome $exy $ongs 4 UPartyNextDoor and DrakeA long, sleepy bedroom record that hides the headliner behind a better singer and still runs out of songs.
  5. 2023For All the DogsEighty five minutes with no editor, no ideas and a lead performance that sounds actively bored.
  6. 2023For All the Dogs Scary Hours EditionSix songs bolted onto a bad album, and they hold the best pure rapping he does all decade.
  7. 2022Her LossDrake and 21 SavageA guest rapper walks in and quietly outworks the headliner across sixteen tracks of his own album.
  8. 2022Honestly, NevermindA surprise house record with almost no rapping on it, and the most interesting thing he had done in years.
  9. 2021Certified Lover BoyTwenty one tracks of a man doing his own impression, delayed a year and worth none of the wait.
  10. 2020Dark Lane Demo TapesA leak dump released on purpose, and the most relaxed he has sounded in five years.
  11. 2018ScorpionNinety minutes split into a rap side and a singing side, and both of them are twice as long as they should be.
  12. 2017More LifeSold as a playlist rather than an album, and the looser framing is the most useful thing about it.
  13. 2016ViewsEighty one minutes of a man being cold at you, and the record whose sound the rest of pop spent two summers borrowing.
  14. 2015If You're Reading This It's Too LateBranded a mixtape, sold and charted like an album, and the moment his sound turned cold and mean.
  15. 2015What a Time to Be AliveDrake and FutureSix days of studio time, one clear winner, and more fun than a project this lopsided should be.
  16. 2013Nothing Was the SameTighter, warmer and more confident than the record before it, and the last time everything was working at once.
  17. 2011Take CareEighty minutes of expensive melancholy that invented the default mood of the decade that followed it.
  18. 2010Thank Me LaterA nervous, expensive debut that hits its marks and never quite sounds like the mixtape that earned it.
  19. 2009So Far GoneThe mixtape that rewrote what a rap record could sound like, and the reason the next fifteen years sound like this.