Labeled as “Cha Cha (Remix)” when it premiered on OVO Sound Radio, “Hotline Bling was premiered on OVO Sound Radio Episode 2 alongside “Charged Up” and “Right Hand.”

“Hotline Bling” became big enough to become a cultural phenomenon. Spawning countless covers, remixes, and parodies. It peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Wow.

CLASSIC

Monumental moment

WATTBA

most influential and definitive music video of the 2010s

Everyone sending different memes from it the throughout the day was a movie

10 years

10 years ago? Jesus Christ.

Absolute moment. One of the Defining moments of drake’s career. Absolute generational song. Generational video. It had everything going for it. From the memes, the content of the song itself. One of drakes best song ever

Junior year homecoming

then I hit em with the Hotline

Still his most recognizable song, even if it didn’t stream or chart as a high as One Dance and God’s Plan.

Took DRAM and James Turrell’s sauce and ran with it.

The fact that this was released quite literally in the middle of the 2010s and it accurately represents the decade so perfectly is just a chef’s kiss for me. So iconic

Remember it like it was yesterday

One of his best songs

The signature Drake song in every way imaginable

classic song

Could’ve sworn this had came out during the school year and not summer

right hand is a classic too

It premiered on OVOSR during the summer but IIRC didn’t actually get huge and blow up to its #2 peak until much later in the year

Edit: just checked and the music video didn’t drop until mid October

the way people really tried to gaslight about this being labeled cha cha remix and it not being dram inspired lmao

See this makes more sense because I remember listening to this constantly one morning on my Way to school