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Drake becomes the first artist to reach 400 total Hot 100 entries as 42 charting songs appear this week—the most concurrent entries ever—driven by the simultaneous release of ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR (debuts at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Billboard 200). He also reclaims No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 for a 39th week.
A new single-day summit record was set on Mount Everest’s Nepal side, with 274 successful ascents achieved thanks to favorable weather. The season remains crowded and under tighter controls with higher fees, as hundreds more climbers and Sherpa guides are expected to attempt the peak this month. Notable climbers like Kami Rita Sherpa (32nd ascent) and Pasang Dawa Sherpa (30th) added to the week’s records, while the Chinese side route remained closed this year.
A record 274 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest in a single day, marking a peak in crowding as guides and climbers navigated base-camp preparations and ascent during the late April–May 2026 window.
Netflix’s new series Swapped has set a new streaming record on the platform, reportedly surpassing the previous leader KPop Demon Hunters, signaling a surge in early viewership and reinforcing Netflix's position in original content.
Skydance Animation’s Swapped racks up 38.7 million views in a seven‑day window (May 4–10), the largest weekly total for a Netflix animated movie, after opening with 15.5 million views in three days. It topped both the English‑language and overall Netflix charts, besting titles like Apex and Sally Field’s Remarkably Bright Creatures, with a voice cast led by Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple.
Virginia mother Vanesa, a retired veteran, won $240,150 on The Price Is Right’s new Lion’s Share pricing game—the largest single-prize payout in the show’s 54-year history—by successively selecting five balls that yielded $2,500, $25,000, $100,000, $100,000 and a $12,650 Morocco trip.
Golden Tempo’s victory at Churchill Downs on the 152nd Kentucky Derby drew an average of 19.6 million viewers, making it the most-viewed Derby in history.
Pittsburgh hosted the NFL Draft and set a league attendance record with 805,000 fans over three days, including a Day 1 single-day record of 320,000, surpassing Detroit’s 2024 mark. The event, staged outside Acrisure Stadium with seats and viewing in the stadium, aimed to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact for the city as part of the NFL’s on-the-road draft strategy.
Pittsburgh hosted the 2026 NFL Draft and drew 805,000 fans over three days, shattering the previous attendance record, with 16 prospects in attendance in person. The piece notes that reaching 1 million would require a much larger outdoor footprint and favorable weather, and points to Washington, D.C.’s 2027 National Mall plan as the best chance to hit seven-figure attendance if conditions cooperate.
The NFL draft in Pittsburgh drew 805,000 attendees, surpassing Detroit's 2024 record of 775,000, though the tally is inflated by repeat counts from people entering and exiting across multiple days; the three-day breakdown was 320,000 (Thu), 280,000 (Fri), and 205,000 (Sat), with rain dampening Saturday turnout. The counting method may be leveraged to push higher totals next year when the draft moves to Washington, D.C., where entry points could inflate counts even more.
The SEC set a new NFL Draft record with 87 selections in 2026, led by Alabama and Texas A&M with 10 picks each, followed by Georgia (8), LSU (7), Florida (7), and Texas (7); the conference totaled 87 picks across the draft, while the Big Ten had 68, and the ACC and Big 12 tied at 38 each, with one International Pathway pick (Uar Bernard) not counted in the main tally.
Pittsburgh drew a record 320,000 attendees for the first night of the NFL draft, topping Detroit’s previous 275,000 mark. The figure, which may involve counting quirks from crowds spread across Acrisure Stadium and nearby Point State Park, underscores the draft’s continuing growth as a traveling event.
A southwestern heat wave pushed an Arizona community to 110°F, the hottest March temperature ever recorded in the United States, as scorching conditions persist across the region and prompt warnings and closures.
Jonathan Kuminga unintentionally banked in one of the NBA's eight longest shots while attempting a late-third-quarter pass to Jock Landale, delighting Hawks fans as Atlanta beat Dallas 135–120 for their 11th straight victory. Kuminga finished with 16 points and five rebounds off the bench, adding a legendary moment to his Hawks tenure amid his trade deadline move from Golden State.
Mikaela Shiffrin won her 109th World Cup race in Åre, adding a 72nd slalom victory and tying the season record for slalom wins with eight, as she nears a record-tying sixth World Cup overall title; with four races left and a 140-point lead over Emma Aicher, she could clinch the overall crown at the World Cup Finals in Norway, while Aicher must podium to stay in contention.