Lifelong musician - I thought from the title that it meant dropping a track on spotify at a specific release time. (I imagined, like, putting out one song from a new album at midnight every night). Most people I know would call this a "break", as in the build-up to where the beat breaks. Probably a generational thing.
Also lifelong musician and knew immediately what it meant. "The drop" is fundamentally different but not unrelated to a break - indeed typically it's after a break.
("break" and "breakbeat" are also overloaded terms, particularly in electronic music)
