Some Sexy Songs 4 U

The album follows the pair's numerous collaborations since PartyNextDoor was signed to Drake's record label, OVO Sound, back in 2013, with the first of these being Drake's guest appearance on "Over Here" from PartyNextDoor's eponymous mixtape (2013). Alongside their collaborations, they have contributed to each other's individual songs as a writer or producer. PartyNextDoor supported the release of his album PartyNextDoor 4 (2024) through a twenty-four-stop Canada and U.S. live tour. On August 2, 2024, at the tour's stop at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto—the artists' hometown—Drake performed as a surprise guest, with his set foregoing any of the hip-hop tracks in his discography. He then announced the collaborative album, saying, "On behalf of me and Party, we've been working on something for y'all. So, you get the summer over with, you do what you need to do. I know all you girls are outside. When it gets a little chilly, PartyNextDoor and Drake album will be waiting right there for you". Just two days later, the OVO Instagram page seemingly hinted at the album by posting backstage pictures of Drake and PartyNextDoor that was taken after the concert. During an interview on August 5, PartyNextDoor revealed that his favorite collaboration with Drake "[are] the [ones] we [are] doing right now. All 15 of them", seemingly revealing that the pair were working on 15 songs for the album. On August 6, Drake released 100 gigabytes of data, including behind-the-scenes clips, tour rehearsals, and studio footage. He also previewed three unreleased tracks (tracks of which what would later be released as the 100 Gigs) under an Instagram page by the name "plottttwistttttt". On August 7, video clips surfaced of nightclubs in Canada previewing unreleased music from the album. On the same day, via the "plottttwistttttt" Instagram account, Drake reposted a tweet, blurring out the words "album rollout" regarding another unheard track. On October 5, Drake attended at Tyrone Edwards' Nostalgia Party in Toronto, where he called out his "fake friends" in the music industry and cited PartyNextDoor as a "real" friend. He also hinted at the album's impending release by saying "shoutout to my brother PX, album dropping soon". In an appearance on The Fry Yiy Show on SiriusXM that same month, OVO engineer, Noel Cadastre, stated that the album only required "finishing touches" and called November "a jam-packed month for me [to finish the album]". PartyNextDoor then revealed work on the album would continue after the conclusion of the European leg of his Sorry I'm Outside Tour on November 6, saying, "I have one more show on this tour, then the album is getting finished". During a Kick live stream with xQc on November 24, Drake stated the album was almost complete, saying, "[the] album is 75 percent done. Shout out to PX, cooking right now," and added that "the album sounds incredible... It's the sound people know and love us for". On December 26, Drake appeared on a Kick live stream with Adin Ross, in which he stated that the album is one of the records that he is "most proud of in [his] life". He also revealed that the album was supposed to release in November, but was delayed. Some Sexy Songs 4 U release follows legal action by Drake against Universal Music Group (UMG), the parent company of Republic Records, with whom Drake has a recording contract. In November 2024, Drake initiated a legal petition against UMG and Spotify in the U.S., alleging they conspired to artificially inflate the number of streams of the diss track, "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar on the service during Drake's feud with Lamar earlier that year by implementing pay-to-play, malicious bots, and other tactics. Drake withdrew the petition on January 14, 2025, and filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court a day later, alleging defamation against UMG for promoting "Not Like Us". This legal dispute caused confusion regarding which label or company would act as the distributor for Some Sexy Songs 4 U. It was eventually released through OVO, Santa Anna, and Republic, each of which are the artists' labels, while it was distributed through Santa Anna (owned by Sony Music), but licensed to Republic. ==Artwork and promotion==

On February 3, 2025, the album's title was revealed and its release date of February 14 was announced. The announcement included a snippet of "Deeper". On February 9, Drake shared a snippet of the song "Crying in Chanel". A day later, Drake shared a promotional skit for the album starring the Canadian comedic duo Jermaine and Trevaunn Richards, which depicted Trevaunn practicing a romantic speech with his brother for his girlfriend but being unable or unwilling to tell her that he loves her. According to Jon Powell of Revolt, this exemplifies the "playful, self-aware marketing that helped Drake maintain his cultural dominance for well over a decade". The following day, Drake shared the album's official cover art via Instagram, which depicted Drake (left) and PartyNextDoor (right) standing together during a snowstorm in front of Absolute World in Mississauga, Ontario, wearing oversized fur coats. On February 12, Drake shared a snippet of the track "Somebody Loves Me" on "@plottttwistttttt". He also shared a photo of the title page of December 2024-draft of a screenplay called "$$$ 4 U" (the acronym for the album title): it listed Drake and PartyNextDoor as its writers and that it was based on an unreleased novel of the same name by Drake's father, Dennis Graham. A day later, Drake revealed the album's 21-song tracklist via Instagram and confirmed its runtime to be 74 minutes. In October 2025, PartyNextDoor released $$$, a short film inspired by the album. ==Controversy==

On February 13, 2025, some social media users and Freddie Gibbs accused Drake and PartyNextDoor of plagiarizing use of the dollar symbol in the album's title and bunnies in its promotional material from Gibbs' album Soul Sold Separately (2022). Canadian rapper John River accused Drake and PartyNextDoor of plagiarizing the pose in front of Absolute World in the album's artwork from his music video to his 2021 single "Hope City II": he claimed PartyNextDoor and "another OVO artist" contacted him "obsessing" over his video and "thought process", but threatened to blackball him after River refused to act as a ghostwriter. ==Music and composition==

Some Sexy Songs 4 U contains twenty-one tracks, with a playing time of over 73 minutes. Its album release coincides with Valentine's Day, marking Drake's third full-length project to be released near that date, after So Far Gone (2009) and ''If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015); according to HotNewHipHop'', Drake's albums released during this time "reflect his shifting perspectives on love, success, and emotional vulnerability", saying, "Few artists have aligned themselves with a holiday like Drake has with Valentine's Day". Production as a producer. According to Will Schube and Kia Turner of Complex, Some Sexy Songs 4 U primarily mixes elements of contemporary R&B, hip-hop, and trap. It also explores alternative rock, acoustic pop, Lyrics and themes According to Joe Coscarelli of The New York Times, the lyrical themes on the album are reminiscent of both Drake and PartyNextDoor's previous works, including Drake's Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020) and PartyNextDoor's PartyNextDoor 3 (2016). Throughout the record, "Drake's attention remains primarily on the ladies" while PartyNextDoor "opens up about his sexual escapades", according to Billboard Carl Lamarre and Michael Saponara. Drake covers the topics of a bachelor lifestyle, settling down, being turned on by his peers, and his previous sexual experiences. Similarly, PartyNextDoor covers themes of sex, money, infidelity, and sexual jealousy. In the album's opening song, "CN Tower", the two artists refer to the CN Tower, an observation tower in Toronto; it famously appears on the cover of Drake's fourth album Views (2016). They refer to the tower's lighting schedule at night. == Critical reception ==

Some Sexy Songs 4 U was met with mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received a weighted average score of 54, based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Jeff Ihaza of Rolling Stone said the album offers fans of the artists' "breezy R&B sound plenty to grasp onto", calling the tracklist "well-executed [with] signature OVO-style hits". He also praised the artists for their "magnetic chemistry that jells on several moments on the record" and singled out "Nokia" and "Die Trying" as highlights, calling the latter "replete with catchy acoustic guitar and paired nicely with PartyNextDoor's soaring, elastically rhythmic vocals". HotNewHipHop Aron A. criticized Drake's contributions to the album, calling them "driven by ego and external validation [rather] than passion", but praised PartyNextDoor's efforts, saying he "offers a level of intimacy and vulnerability that Drake increasingly shies away from". Ludovic Hunter-Tilney for the Financial Times wrote that Drake is "ingenious" to use "playfulness and humour [as part of] a charm offensive" on the album to reframe the context of his feud with Lamar, praising its production, but ultimately called the execution "underwhelming", criticizing its runtime. Dakota Foss of Sputnikmusic gave the album a negative review for containing misogynistic themes and for its similarity with Drake's previous albums, concluding "the [album] fails on every level". ==Awards and nominations==

Some Sexy Songs 4 U earned over 56.6 million first-day streams on the global Spotify chart, averaging over 2.5 million streams per song: this was the second-highest streaming debut of the year, around 1 million streams short from the number one, The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow. In Party and Drake's home country of Canada, Some Sexy Songs 4 U debuted at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums, marking Party's first and Drake's fifteenth number-one album in the country. It earned a total of 287.04 million on-demand streams in the debut week, which resulted in the largest streaming week of 2025 for any album. With Some Sexy Songs 4 U, Drake extended many of his Hot 100 chart records, including the most top-ten hits (80), top-20 entries (139), top 40 hits (216) and overall charted titles (358). In its third week, it held its spot at number two on the chart, moving 90,000 units, before it dropped to number three in its fourth week, moving 79,000 units. As of January 2, 2026, the album was the eighth best-selling album of the 2025 year according to Hits, moved a total 1,766,000 album-equivalent units, including 66,000 pure album sales, 111,000 song sales, 2.192 billion audio-on-demand streams, and 97 million video-on-demand streams. Internationally, the album debuted in the top ten of Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Hungary, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, top twenty in France and Spain and top forty in Italy and Finland. All 21 tracks debuted on the Official South African Charts, with seven in the top ten. It debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart, moving 20,746 album-equivalent units in its first week. The album marked Party's highest debut on the chart and became Drake's fourteenth top-ten. ==Track listing==

Credits adapted from Tidal and the ASCAP and BMI Repertoire where applicable. Notes • All tracks are stylized in all caps. Sample and interpolation credits • "CN Tower" contains samples of "Lollipop", written by Dwayne Carter, Stephen Garrett, Darius Harrison, Rex Zamor, and Jim Jonsin, as performed by Lil Wayne and Static Major. • "Spider-Man Superman" contains samples of "The Real Her", written by Aubrey Graham, Dwayne Carter, Noah Shebib and André Benjamin, as performed by Drake, Lil Wayne, and André 3000; and samples from "My Turn Interlude", written by Kashief Hanson, as performed by K. Forest. • "Small Town Fame" contains samples from "Never Call Me", written by Jhené Chilombo, Amaire Johnson, Benjamin Levin, Magnus Høiberg, and Adam Feeney, as performed by Jhené Aiko and Kurupt; and samples from "Speak to My Heart", written and performed by Donnie McClurkin. • "Gimme a Hug" contains samples from "I Miss You", written by Aaron Hall and Gregory Cauthen, as performed by Hall. • "Raining in Houston" contains samples from "Ain't Nothing I Can Do", written by Ruben Locke Jr., Paul Richmond, and Darryl Ellis, as performed by Tyrone Davis. • "Meet Your Padre" contains samples from "Iliovasilema", written and performed by Konstantinos Argyros. • "Nokia" contains an interpolation of the Nokia tune, composed by Francisco Tárrega. • "Glorious" contains interpolations from "In Ha Mood", written by Isis Gaston and Ephrem Lopez Jr., as performed by Ice Spice; and samples from the episode "Ice Spice: The Zane Lowe Interview" from The Zane Lowe Show. ==Personnel==

Musicians • Drake – vocals (tracks 1–5, 7, 9–21) • PartyNextDoor – vocals (tracks 1–3, 5, 6, 12, 13, 15–21), background vocals (11), keyboards (2) • Hassan Phills – background vocals (track 7) • Paul Omar "Elkan" Agyei – background vocals (track 14), additional vocals (14), keyboards (14) • Destiny Nowell – background vocals (track 16) • Noel Cadastre – keyboards (tracks 1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 17–19, 21) • Prep Bijan – keyboards (tracks 1, 2, 17) • Kid Masterpiece – keyboards (tracks 1, 10, 11, 21), guitar (11) • Asante "Aiona" Boreland – keyboards (track 2) • DJ Lewis – keyboards (tracks 2, 4, 5, 13, 16, 19) • Eli Brown – keyboards (track 2) • O Lil Angel – keyboards (tracks 2, 4, 5, 13, 16, 19) • Duncan "Kiyoshi" Carolan – keyboards (track 3) • Dorien "Livewire" Johnson – keyboards (track 3) • London Cyr – keyboards (track 3) • Kareem "Reemz" Hussein – keyboards (track 3) • Marketih "Vawn" Thonger – keyboards (track 3) • Nyan Liberthal – keyboards (tracks 3, 9) • Alex Lustig – keyboards (track 6) • Feliciano "Feli Ciano" Ecar – keyboards (track 6) • Mert "Room33" Han – keyboards (track 6) • Robin Turrini – keyboards (track 6) • Harissis "Aki" Tsakmakils – keyboards (track 6) • Luzian "Luz" Tuetsch – keyboards (track 6) • Aliandro Prawl – keyboards (track 7) • Ajak "Bangs" Chol – keyboards (track 7) • Chibu Amajoyi – keyboards (track 7) • Isaac "Earl" Bynum – keyboards (track 7) • Gentuar "GENT!" Memishi – keyboards (track 7) • Oriyomi "Skip2Fame" Ojelade – keyboards (track 7) • Marques "M3rge" Hutchinson – keyboards (track 7) • Godwin "Imovekiloz" Ajayi – keyboards (track 8) • Harley Arsenault – keyboards (tracks 9, 21) • Gordo – keyboards (track 10) • Johannes Klahr – keyboards (track 10) • Richard "LIOHN" Zastenker – keyboards (track 10) • Simon Hessman – keyboards (track 10) • Nikita "29millions" Laremchuk – keyboards (track 12) • Leonsio "Niko" Muca – keyboards (tracks 12, 20) • Tobias "Scandi" Rasmussen – keyboards (track 12) • Jose "Meño" De Luna – keyboards (track 13) • Jesús "JOP" Ortiz Paz – keyboards (track 13) • Jordan Ullman – keyboards (track 15) • Philip Böllhoff – keyboards (track 16) • Embrack "Nasamadeit" Jevhaun – keyboards (track 19) • Nicola "Niketaz" Kollar – keyboards (track 20) • Nathaniel "Crater" Kim – keyboards (track 20) • Godwin Sonzi – guitar (track 5) • Kenneth Ullman – guitar (track 15) Technical • Chris Athens – mastering • Noel Cadastre – mixing (tracks 1, 4–10, 12–14, 16, 18–21), engineering (1–5, 7, 9–21) • Alex Tumay – mixing (tracks 2, 3, 6, 13, 17) • 40 – mixing (tracks 10, 11, 15) • Prep Bijan – engineering (tracks 1–3, 5, 6, 11–13, 15–21) • Dave Huffman – mastering assistance • Oupsing – mixing assistance (tracks 10, 15) ==Charts==

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