Some Sexy Songs 4 U By PartyNextDoor and Drake Has Surpassed One Billion Streams on Spotify

As of November 21, Some Sexy Songs 4 U has reached one billion Spotify streams, less than a year after its release.

Released on Valentines Day, February 14, 2025, the 21-track project marked PartyNextDoor’s first full collaborative album and Drake’s third, and arrived amid a complicated backdrop: Drake’s legal dispute with Universal Music Group, the fallout from his high-profile feud with Kendrick Lamar, and ongoing uncertainty about OVO Sound’s future distribution alignment.

Yet the commercial momentum never wavered. The album debuted at No. 1 in the US after selling 236,000 units in its first week and No. 1 in Canada. It entered the top ten across Europe and Australasia, and placed all 21 songs on the Billboard Hot 100.

A Project Born From a Decade-Long Creative Partnership

The album formalised a musical relationship that began in 2013, when PartyNextDoor became the first artist signed to Drake’s OVO Sound. For years, the singer-producer operated as the label’s aesthetic engine, shaping Drake’s sound behind the scenes through writing credits, production support, and background vocals.

Some Sexy Songs 4 U was announced during a surprise hometown appearance in Toronto in August 2024. What followed was a months-long, characteristically cryptic rollout — backstage photos, studio leaks, teaser snippets, and Drake’s notorious “100-gigabyte drop” of archival footage.

It also represented a quiet internal shift: the album is Drake’s first without his longtime producer 40, signalling a generational or strategic evolution within the OVO ecosystem.

Mixed Reviews, Unshaken Consumption

Critics were divided. The Financial Times described the album’s execution as “underwhelming,” while Pitchfork cited its indulgent runtime and thematic repetitiveness. Rolling Stone, however, praised the duo’s chemistry and highlighted tracks such as “Nokia” and “Die Trying” as creative peaks.

A Reflection of the Streaming Economy’s New Logic

At 73 minutes, Some Sexy Songs 4 U is not built for brevity — yet it is built for streaming. The sprawling tracklist, broad production credits, and hybrid of R&B, hip-hop, trap, and regional influences reflect a release designed to thrive across multiple listener segments and DSP environments.

For PartyNextDoor, the achievement cements the project as his largest commercial success to date — a long-overdue mainstream validation of his influence across a decade of R&B innovation.

For Drake, the billion-stream mark extends a career pattern: even in moments of public scrutiny, legal friction, and critical scepticism, his releases remain streaming monoliths.
His audience shows no signs of attrition — only migration from hit-driven spikes to deep-catalogue endurance.