Recently, the comeback of hip-hop icon Drake with 3 consecutive albums - "Iceman" (18 songs), "Habibti" (11 songs) and "Maid of Honour" (14 songs) - has paralyzed global music platforms.
Spotify and Apple Music even collapsed due to a sudden increase in the number of people accessing music on the day the male rapper returned - May 15.
Amidst the explosive growth in the number of listeners to Drake's new music products, Spotify's system initially confirmed that the male rapper had set 3 records.
Drake became the most streamed artist on Spotify in a single day of 2026; "Iceman" became the most streamed album in a single day of 2026; and the song "Make them cry" in the album "Iceman" is the most streamed song in a single day of 2026 to date.
However, the record related to "Make them cry" is being questioned, because this song was released with 13.2 million streams on May 15.
Meanwhile, many viewers pointed out that the song "Swim" by the BTS group released on March 20, 2026 was released with 14.6 million streams on the first day, clearly higher than "Make them cry".
Faced with the wave of controversy, Spotify conducted an internal review. In its latest announcement, the platform admitted that there was a mistake in recording Drake's record.
They explained: "The process of verifying the initial stream volume was done manually, leading to the mistaken addition of listens to two different songs in the album.
Drake still holds the record for the most artists and albums streamed in a single day in 2026. We apologize for this incident and have updated the verification process to prevent similar cases in the future.
However, the controversy did not stop when a part of the audience continued to believe that BTS fans had given information that was not focused.
Many BTS fan communities shared posts affirming that "Swim" set a record as the song with the biggest debut in 2026 on Spotify (as of the first day), to refute the information Spotify previously provided about the record of "Make them cry".
However, if we talk about "the most streamed song in a day of 2026", this record does not belong to BTS's "Swim", but to Bad Bunny's song "DtMF".
DtMF" was released in 2025, but after Bad Bunny had an explosive performance in the Super Bowl football tournament, this song returned to Top 1 on the global Spotify chart on February 9, 2026 with 16.5 million streams - higher than BTS's "Swim".
Despite losing the record for the song "Make them cry", Drake is still the male artist with the largest number of streams in one day in Spotify history, reaching 250 million streams.
Among them, "Make them cry" with 13.2 million streams is the song with the highest performance among Drake's 43 newly released songs.
