Kendrick Lamar has notched another victory over Drake by setting a new streaming record among rappers.
Following his Super Bowl halftime show performance this past weekend, Kendrick now has 88.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the world’s most popular streaming platform.
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It is the most amount of monthly listeners a Hip Hop artist has achieved on the service.
The Compton superstar is currently way ahead of his bitter rival Drake, who has 75.3 million monthly Spotify listeners.
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He has a long way to go rank first among all artists, though, with Bruno Mars currently leading the way with a staggering 151 million monthly listeners on the platform.
Trailing by a large margin in second place is The Weeknd with 124.5 million.
Kendrick Lamar officially breaks the all-time record for most monthly listeners for a rapper in Spotify history (88.8 million). pic.twitter.com/sMJtOR8v02
— chart data (@chartdata) February 11, 2025
Kendrick Lamar now holds the all-time record for most monthly listeners for a hip-hop artist in Spotify history.
He surpasses Drake. pic.twitter.com/7lSN1Sxyk8
— chart data (@chartdata) February 11, 2025
Kendrick Lamar has seen a huge increase in streams since his performance at the Super Bowl, as well as his recent success at the Grammys.
As previously reported, K. Dot’s hit Drake diss “Not Like Us” surged 430 percent on Spotify in the hours following the show, while “HUMBLE,” “All the Stars,” “Man at the Garden” and “DNA” all enjoyed spikes of over 200 percent.
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Over on Apple Music (which sponsored the halftime show), the entire top five was held by Kendrick the morning after his performance, while his album GNXreturned to No. 1 on the platform.
Kendrick is also expected to reclaim the top spot on the Billboard 200, with GNX projected to rack up an additional 230,000 equivalent album units over the course of this week.
The Pulitzer Prize winner has also come out on top over Drake when it comes to the money generated from their rap battle.
In December, Billboard estimated that the rappers’ respective diss songs had earned almost $15.4 million in streaming, digital sales and publishing revenue in the U.S.
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Kendrick was the clear winner of the two, with “Not Like Us,” “Like That,” “Meet the Grahams” and “Euphoria” accounting for just over $13.4 million of that figure (almost 87 percent).
“Not Like Us” was the most profitable of the four, generating roughly $7.6 million, followed by “Like That” — his chart-topping collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin that ignited the war — racking up $4.6 million.
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The spooky “Meet the Grahams” had earned $795,100 up to that point, while “Euphoria” had made $441,300. Data for Kendrick’s other diss track “6:16 in LA,” which was not released on streaming, was unavailable.
