Habibti (album)

Habibti
A shot of a woman being obscured by masking tape, leaving only her eyes visible
Studio album by
Drake
ReleasedMay 15, 2026 (2026-05-15)
GenreR&B
Length36:33
Labels
Producers
  • 20
  • 2one2
  • 5ebas
  • Alex Lustig
  • Ambezza
  • APMelodies
  • B4U
  • Beam
  • DJ Frisco954
  • Eli Brown
  • Foreign Teck
  • Gordo
  • Hugo Mari
  • Jahaan Sweet
  • Joseph L'Étranger
  • London Cyr
  • Lucid
  • Mcevoy
  • Nellz
  • Noah Shebib
  • Noel Cadastre
  • O Lil Angel
  • ProdbyTy
  • Prodkavin
  • RL Beats
  • Roark Bailey
  • Sakii
  • Saturdaystace
  • Sauceboy
  • SkipOnDaBeat
  • Smash David
  • XYNothing
  • YMX Beats
  • Zach Geitner
  • Zecca
Drake chronology
Maid of Honour
(2026)		 Habibti
(2026)

Habibti[a] (stylized in all caps) is the eleventh studio album by Canadian rapper Drake, released through OVO Sound and Republic Records on May 15, 2026, alongside his ninth and tenth studio albums[b] Iceman and Maid of Honour.[1] The three albums serve as a follow-up to Drake's collaborative album Some Sexy Songs 4 U (2025) and mark his first solo albums since For All the Dogs (2023). Production for Habibti was handled by Drake's frequent collaborators, including 40, among others, and contains guest appearances from Qendresa, Sexyy Red, Loe Shimmy, and PartyNextDoor.[2]

Habibti debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 in the United States; with Iceman and Maid of Honour debuting at number one and three, respectively, Drake became the first artist ever to hold the top three spots on the Billboard 200 concurrently.

Background and promotion

The album was surprise released alongside Drake's other two albums released on May 15, 2026, Iceman and Maid of Honour following the fourth and last episode of Drake's Iceman album livestreams.[3] Drake would then announce the three albums with the caption "All 3 albums dropping at midnight from the biggest sound".[4]

Habibti serves as the shortest album from Drake's three-album release with 11 tracks across a 36-minute runtime; this also makes it his shortest album yet.[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic59/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Arts DeskStarStar[7][c]
ConsequenceD[8]
The GuardianStarStar[9][c]
NMEStarStarStarHalf star[10][c]
Pitchfork6.5/10[11]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarHalf star[12]
The Sydney Morning HeraldStar[13]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Habibti received "mixed or average reviews" based on a weighted average score of 59 out of 100 from 8 critic scores.[6]

Thomas H. Green for The Arts Desk wrote that out of the three records released, Habibti is "the bedroom album. Yum". He continued writing that "the music is laid back and woozy. By this point, anyone who finds Autotune annoying will have been sectioned. But Drake knows lots of 'girls who wanna party'. So, then, let's have more drab odes to them. Or, mainly, to his prowess, his one-note desires".[7] Consequence's Kiana Fitzgerald began her review, writing that the record is "inexplicably" titled. Fitzgerald continued that "the R&B-steeped Habibti is lost at sea, buoyed only by the predictable, but effective, 'WNBA'" and that like Maid of Honour, the record is "#forthegirls".[8] In an unfavourable three-album review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis stated Habibti "sound[s] like old ground being half-heartedly retrodden for the sake of it," and referred to "Rusty Intro" as "tuneless acoustic guitar backed rambling".[9] Dalton Higgins of The Globe and Mail was also critical, calling the album "largely forgettable".[14]

In a positive review, Jeff Ihaza for Rolling Stone wrote that "at a tight 11 songs, this album finds Drake in romantic territory, having shed the guarded iciness of Iceman and embracing the R&B loverboy that audiences first came to love him for".[12] In a negative review, Robert Moran for The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the record is a "slog" and that "Drake['s] at his most charmless and self-pitying, sleepwalking through noxious quips he should have left in the WhatsApp chat with his manosphere bros" on the record.[13] Pitchfork's Matthew Ritchie wrote that "the R&B act of Drake’s triple bill is alternatingly hypnotic and hollow. It peaks when it’s refreshingly loose, and drags when it reverts to stock writing and production".[11]

Commercial performance

Habibti opened with first-week sales of 114,000 album-equivalent units in the United States and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200; with Iceman and Maid of Honour debuting at number one and three, respectively, Drake became the first artist ever to hold the top three spots on the Billboard 200 concurrently.[15] Internationally, Habibti peaked in the top ten in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Track listing

Habibti track listing[16][17][18][19]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Rusty Intro"
  • DJ Frisco954
  • B4U
1:02
2."WNBA"
  • Graham
  • Douglas Ford
  • Baker
  • Diamante Blackmon
  • Mathias Liyew
  • Dominik Patrzek
  • Alexander Lustig
  • Francisco Zecca
  • Nik Frascona
  • Kyle Nelson
  • Roark Bailey
  • B4U
  • Gordo
  • Ambezza
  • Deats
  • Alex Lustig
  • Zecca
  • Nellz
  • Nik D
  • Bailey
2:58
3."Slap the City" (featuring Qendresa)
  • B4U
  • Lucid
  • Cadastre
3:22
4."High Fives"
  • Graham
  • Baker
  • Noah Shebib
  • Tyshane Thompson
  • Tyler Nguyen
  • Henry Tubman
  • Eliel Afari-Brown
  • Kavin Smith
  • Jimmy Nguyen
  • Reza Manohar
  • Zach Geitner
  • Naza Major
  • B4U
  • 40
  • Beam
  • ProdbyTy
  • RL
  • Eli Brown
  • Prodkavin
  • Sakii
  • SaturdayStace
  • Geitner
  • 20
4:16
5."Hurrr Nor Thurrr" (featuring Sexyy Red)
  • B4U
  • YMX Beats
3:08
6."I'm Spent" (featuring Loe Shimmy)
2:24
7."Classic"
  • Graham
  • Samuel Jiménez
  • Edgar Ferrera
  • Michael Hernandez
  • Sebastian Lopez
  • Arham Paul
  • Hugo Mari
  • Darin Smith
  • Ricky McNeal
2:59
8."Gen 5"
  • Graham
  • Baker
  • Jesse Gumer
  • James Cyr
  • B4U
  • 2one2
  • London Cyr
3:37
9."White Bone"
  • Graham
  • Baker
  • Afari-Brown
  • K. Smith
  • Phillip Campbell
  • Machado Joseph
  • B4U
  • Eli Brown
  • Prodkavin
  • Sauceboy
  • XYNothing
4:57
10."Fortworth" (featuring PartyNextDoor)
  • Cadastre
  • Kid Masterpiece
3:57
11."Prioritizing"
  • Graham
  • Shebib
403:53
Total length:36:33

Track notes

Sample and interpolation credits

  • "Rusty Intro" contains an interpolation of the traditional Scottish song "The Parting Glass".
  • "Slap the City" contains a sample of "Show Me a Good Time", written by Aubrey Graham, Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, and Ernest Wilson, as performed by Drake.[12]
  • "Hurrr Nor Thurrr" contains a sample of "Moral", written by Caleb Odidi and performed by Avenoir, and an interpolation of "U Know What's Up", written by Edward Ferrell, Darren Lighty, Clifton Lighty, Balewa Muhammad, Anthony Hamilton and Veronica McKenzie, and performed by Donell Jones.
  • "Classic" contains a sample of "Don't Beat Around the Bush", written by Darin Smith and Ricky McNeal and performed by Jus' Cauze.[12]

Charts

Chart performance for Habibti
Chart (2026) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[22] 5
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[23] 2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[24]8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[25]17
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[26]22
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[27]4
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[28]14
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[29]20
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[30]44
French Albums (SNEP)[31] 29
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[32]36
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[33]36
Irish Albums (Official Charts)[34]16
Italian Albums (FIMI)[35] 64
Japanese Download Albums (Billboard Japan)[36] 75
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[37] 12
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[38] 5
Nigerian Albums (TurnTable)[39] 21
Norwegian Albums (IFPI Norge)[40] 23
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[41]6
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[42] 8
Swedish Hip-Hop Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[43] 2
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[44]5
UK Albums (Official Charts)[45]7
UK R&B Albums (Official Charts)[46]7
US Billboard 200[15] 2
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[47]2

Release history

Release dates and formats for Habibti
Region Date Label(s) Format(s) Edition(s) Ref.
Various May 15, 2026 Standard [2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Arabic: حبيبتي, romanized: ḥabībatī, lit. 'My Beloved'
  2. ↑ Despite their simultaneous release, the albums are sequentially ordered by their preceding singles; Iceman and Maid of Honour saw their preceding singles released on July 5 and July 25, 2025, respectively, whereas Habibti was not preceded by a single.
  3. 1 2 3 Score is shared with Iceman and Maid of Honour.

References

  1. ↑ Cole, Alexander (2025-09-04). "Drake Is Dropping Three Albums Tonight: "Habibti," "Maid of Honour, & "ICEMAN"". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 2026-05-15.
  2. 1 2 Abrams, Jonathan (15 May 2026). "Drake Releases 'Iceman' and Two Surprise Albums: What to Know". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
  3. ↑ Bernstein, Elaina (May 14, 2026). "Did Drake Redefine the Album Rollout? 'ICEMAN's Gradual Defrost". Hypebeast. Retrieved May 15, 2026.
  4. ↑ Horowitz, Steven J. (May 14, 2026). "Drake Releases New Album 'Iceman' — Plus Two More Surprise Albums, 'Habibti' and 'Maid of Honour'". Variety. Retrieved May 15, 2026.
  5. ↑ Caraan, Sophie (May 15, 2026). "Drake's 'HABIBTI' Is the Shortest of His Three-Album Drop, But It Still Hits Different". Hypebeast. Retrieved May 15, 2026.
  6. 1 2 "Habibti by Drake". Metacritic. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  7. 1 2 Green, Thomas H. (May 15, 2026). "Drake serves up 'Iceman', plus two surprise albums, 'Maid of Honour' and 'Habibti'". The Arts Desk. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  8. 1 2 Fitzgerald, Kiana (16 May 2026). "Drake Is Still Chasing Ghosts on His Three-Album Megadrop". Consequence. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  9. 1 2 Petridis, Alex (May 15, 2026). "Drake: Iceman / Maid of Honour / Habibti review – triple-album comeback is a boring, bloated disaster". The Guardian. ISSN 1756-3224. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Drake, 'Iceman'/'Habibti'/'Maid of Honour' review: a bold but overstuffed comeback". NME. May 20, 2026. Retrieved May 24, 2026.
  11. 1 2 Ritchie, Matthew (May 20, 2026). "Drake: HABIBTI Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Ihaza, Jeff (May 18, 2026). "Drake's 'Iceman' Trilogy Turns 'Not Like Us' Inside Out". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  13. 1 2 Moran, Robert (May 18, 2026). "Review of Drake albums Iceman, Habibti, Maid of Honour". The Sydney Morning Herald. ISSN 0312-6315. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
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  15. 1 2 Caufield, Keith (May 24, 2026). "Drake Makes History at Nos. 1, 2 & 3 on Billboard 200 With 'ICEMAN,' 'HABIBTI' & 'MAID OF HONOUR'". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2026.
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  23. ↑ "ARIA Top 40 Hip Hop/R&B Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. May 25, 2026. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
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  36. ↑ "Billboard Japan Top Download Albums – Week of May 20, 2026". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved May 21, 2026.
  37. ↑ "2026 21-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)" (in Lithuanian). AGATA. May 22, 2026. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
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  40. ↑ "Album 2026 uke 21". IFPI Norge. Retrieved May 23, 2026.
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  42. ↑ "Veckolista Album, vecka 21, 2026". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved May 23, 2026.
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