Chartmetric and Chart Data printed it May 16. 13.2 million global Spotify streams in 24 hours. “Not Like Us” had 12.809 million on its biggest day in May 2024.

Four hundred thousand plays. That is the margin. That is the headline.

“Make Them Cry” is track one on ICEMAN. Boi-1da, 40, Tay Keith. Sample of Roger Ridley’s “What Am I.” It is the album’s throat-clear: Toronto, sleep, what 2024 did to him, his father’s illness in present tense, then the rest of the war. It is not a 16-bar answer record. It is the door the other 17 ICEMAN songs walk through.

The same 24 hours: ICEMAN 140.2 million album streams, biggest album day of 2026 on Spotify. Three albums together about 197 million. Drake the most-streamed artist on the service that day. “Make Them Cry” also opened U.S. Spotify near 6 million before “Ran to Atlanta” later took the local crown.

“Not Like Us” still owns the cultural trophy case from 2024–25. No. 1, five Grammys, halftime. A first-day streaming record is a different shelf. Drake put a triple drop behind one intro and passed the number. The comments treated it as revenge math. The spreadsheet treated it as an open.

He had already sued the label, burned a prop farm on YouTube, and said he does not remember Kendrick’s slaps. Then the first song on the album did more first-day business than the song that was supposed to end him. That is why this graphic exists: glove over the eye on one side, Kendrick in the chain and black coat on the other. Two days of the calendar, two years apart.

Records move. This one moved by a sliver that still fit in a headline. 13.2 over 12.8. Opening track over diss of the summer. The rest of the year is listens after day one. Day one is what he took.