Drake’s ‘NOKIA’ becomes best selling song of 2025

Drizzy has been receiving some positive news this year following a rough 2024.

Back in February, the rapper released his collaborative album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. The record came out on Valentine’s Day and was a joint effort between Drake and fellow Canadian PartyNextDoor.

The album proved to be an instant success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, with Drake tying Jay-Z and Taylor Swift for most chart-topping albums by a solo artist.

Last month, Drake’s legal team expanded their defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) just days after District Judge Jeannette Vargas dismissed the media conglomerate’s motion to pause discovery.

The ruling allows the 38-year-old to have legal access to confidential documents such as the contract details between UMG and Kendrick Lamar, and salaries of senior executives.

This week, it has been revealed that his track NOKIA has become the best-selling song of 2025, according to Chart Data.

It is worth noting that despite the significant achievement, NOKIA still has a long way to go before it could dethrone Lamar’s Luther, which came out in 2024 and technically does not qualify as the top song of 2025.

K-Dot’s collaborative song with SZA recently set a new record after topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for twelve straight weeks.

The track, titled after R&B legend Luther Vandross, was released on November 29, 2024, as the third single from Lamar’s highly successful GNX album.

According to Billboard, the duo has now tied Sean “Diddy” Combs and Faith Evans’ 1997 song I’ll Be Missing You for the most weeks spent at number one among duets by co-billed lead solo men and women.

NOKIA was released on March 11, 2025, by the Canadian rapper as part of his album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, and it was touted to dethrone Luther’s chart-topping reign.

Why did Drake sue UMG?

The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar intensified last year when the two rappers hurled personal insults at each other in a series of diss tracks.

The conflict led to Drake filing a lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify in November for allegedly conspiring to inflate streaming figures of Lamar’s Not Like Us.

However, in January, Drake withdrew his petition and filed a new one for defamation against UMG for allegedly promoting the diss track.

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