All US Number 1s From 2021 Ranked Worst To Best

18. What's Next - Drake

For more than a decade now, Drake has had a stranglehold over the Hot 100, becoming the artist with the most chart entries of all time, overtaking Elvis and, well, the Glee cast. When you reach that level of success, the kind where every new song you release becomes a hit, it's easy to take it for granted. Sure enough, in Drake's first release of 2021, he boasted about being 'numero uno' on the 'hot one hundo', as though he knew that's where the song would end up.

When the beat kicks in, there is promise in it; already, the instrumental is catchier than anything Drake put out during his apex in 2018. Then he invites us into yet another three-minute flex over how great his life is, and everything is ruined - those of us who didn't have sex on Valentine's Day cannot relate, Drake.

Overall, What's Next doesn't hold up to the biggest hits of his long career, nor does it hold up to the biggest hits of 2021. Its short-lived chart run also indicates that, for a song that whines about how everyone wants to be up in Drake's business, people ironically didn't care enough to keep listening.