Drake, Post Malone, Eminem and Future dominated music as streaming became one of the preferred outlets for rap fans to enjoy new music. Now, official statistics have been revealed and highlight how rap dominated streaming metrics over the course of the last decade.
According to ChartData, four of the Top 5 streaming acts in the decade were members of the rap community, depending on who you ask. Post’s genre-bending music has slowly inched him out of the rap conversation, but the fact he’s accomplished so much since releasing 2015’s “White Iverson” is impossible to ignore.
But unsurprisingly, it was Drake who landed in the No. 1 spot with 36.3 billion streams over the decade, nearly double the amount of the second biggest streaming artist. The OVO leader’s portfolio also includes the most streamed song in Apple Music history with “God’s Plan.”
Drizzy’s run as the preeminent artist of the streaming era comes with five studio album efforts, all of which have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, four mixtapes in If You’re Reading This Its Too Late and What A Time To Be Alive, More Life and Dark Lane Demo Tapes and a B-sides compilation called Care Package.
Posty finished at No. 2 with 18.9 billion streams followed by Eminem at No. 3 with 17.8 billion streams and Future at No. 5 with 13.9 billion streams. Right behind him was The Weeknd at No. 6 with 13.6 billion streams, followed by the late XXXTENTACION at No. 8 with 13 billion streams and Rihanna at No. 10 with 12.8 billion streams.
Among those listed acts, they accounted for 126 billion streams since 2010. In Drake’s case of being No. 1, the only way he would be overtaken is if Posty and Em’s streams were combined.
Juice WRLD Is Spotify's Most-Streamed Artist In The U.S. For 2020
In total, rap dominated streaming, not just in the decade but in 2020 as well. The late Juice WRLD took home top honors on Spotify for the year 2020, buoyed mostly by his posthumous Legends Never Die album.
Meanwhile, Pop Smoke owned SoundCloud and was crowned king by the platform as his catalog exploded in the wake of his untimely death last February and Lil Baby’s My Turn was the most-streamed album of 2020, according to the MRC.
„But nobody listens to Eminem in the hood…“ Looks like he ain’t hurtin’.
Thank you for calling this out. Nobody cares about what people listen to in the hood. I’ve always thought it was so weak of Gucci to say that. Guys a clown.
First off there’s always been this lie in the media that the hood didn’t listen to Eminem, that’s simply not true. I grew up in NJ in an area that was all black with maybe 10% Spanish and White. Everyone was bumping Eminem back then almost as much as Jay-Z and Nas (both of whom were NY artists so they still got more love in my area)
To people who say drake and Eminem are washed. Check the numbers??
Drake washed? No. Eminem? Yes.
17.8B as in 17.8 BILLION streams. You wish your favorite rapper would be this “washed”. Hater.
Washed? Wash your mouth. Boy
THERE IS NO INTERNET NO CD PLAYER NO IPODS IN THE HOOD …. EMINEM PLEASE HELP HAHAHAHA
nObODy LiSTeNs t0 EmINeM. Lol
Eminem is a beast damnn,I’m South African where the place is 90percent blacks and I can tell you from corner to corner and cars pulling up they are bumping white boy,F..ck the hating and we don’t relate shit,it’s just music we hardly don’t relate to most of your American music but we just love what’s hot and nice that’s all
xxxtentacion would’ve done better if he was alive
It just proves that Kendrick’s music has a poor replay value compared to other artists and also that Kendrick’s music cannot get more exposure if he drops an album every 3/4 years while other artists like Drake or Future drop some new material every year if not every 9 months