With Drake and Taylor Swift Doing It in Back-to-Back Weeks, Are Four-Song Bonuses Now the Move for Pop Stars’ Deluxe Editions?

It was released as the third of the three-pack of new albums Drake dropped to stunned audiences this May.

But now, HABIBTI is the first album from the triple-release to get its own deluxe edition, with four new tracks debuting two Fridays ago (Oct.

2).

The quartet of tracks comprising the bonus material on HABIBTI (FOMO) — subtitled after the hour-long visual Drake released in September, which featured the new tracks for the first time, along with several other HABIBTI cuts — all appear on this week’s Hot 100, led by the Don Tolliver-featuring (and Ella Langley-lifting) “Solar Eclipse” at No.

5.

These tracks swarm the Hot 100 just a week after Drake’s fellow megastar Taylor Swift did the same with a quartet of new bonus tracks off her own recent deluxe edition, The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore .

Is there something to the four-track-bonus release strategy? And can Drake now call it a wrap for his 2026? Billboard staffers answer these questions and more below.

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Drake notches four combined chart debuts and reentries this week from his HABIBTI bonus cuts, with “Solar Eclipse” with Don Toliver debuting at No.

5, “Quebec” at No.

11 and “Cold Shoulder” (also with Don Toliver, and Yebba) at No.

18, while “Classic” re-enters at a new No.

28 high following the release of the new “Classic Pt.

2.” Is this all better, worse or about what you would’ve expected from the performance of the new four-pack? Kyle Denis : This is exactly what I suspected.