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Drake / RECOMMENDED SELECTION 61

First released: 2025 (year verified)

Original 2025 studio album recording

Sourced recording note: Nokia is a solo Drake track on the joint PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. The licensed track credits name Elkan as producer; the album's shared headline credit is not substituted for the song's performer credit.

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Release evidence and recording details

First released: 2025 (year verified)

The original licensed album includes this Drake recording in 2025. Year precision avoids inventing agreement on a regional February day or treating the later video as the first release.

Recording: Original 2025 studio album recording
Credit: Drake
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: $ome $exy $ongs 4 U

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U - licensed original album and track credits
The licensed 2025 OVO Sound album program identifies track 14, Nokia, as Drake's solo main-artist recording, with Elkan as producer. This is the original album program, not a remix or music-video upload. Only the 2025 year is assigned because regional listings differ by a day in February. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U - licensed original album and track credits
The licensed 2025 OVO Sound album program identifies track 14, Nokia, as Drake's solo main-artist recording, with Elkan as producer. This is the original album program, not a remix or music-video upload. Only the 2025 year is assigned because regional listings differ by a day in February. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

Drake - Nokia: OVO Sound official video
The official label identifies Drake and Nokia. The March 31, 2025 date is the video event, not the first album-release date and not evidence for a different version of the annual recording. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

In the yearly lists

These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.

The inspected original 2025 track program identifies Nokia by Drake, matching the unqualified retained annual title and solo performer credit. No remix, live or guest credit is substituted; the annual entry's rank, year and original source fields remain unchanged.

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U - original Nokia track credit
Track 14 Nokia credits Drake as MainArtist on the original 2025 album program. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

ARTIST BACKGROUND

About Drake

Drake, born Aubrey Drake Graham in Toronto, worked as an actor on Degrassi: The Next Generation before his recording breakthrough. Best I Ever Had helped establish his rap career, followed by the debut studio album Thank Me Later and the subsequent Take Care. His catalog includes solo songs such as Hotline Bling and separately credited collaborations, including the album Her Loss with 21 Savage.

Artist background sources

Drake - Recording Academy artist biography
Toronto identity, earlier acting, Best I Ever Had, Thank Me Later, Take Care, Hotline Bling and documented Her Loss collaboration. Award-year metadata is not converted into release dates. | Retrieved 2026-10-17

Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.

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