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.
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.
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.
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 GNX returned 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.
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.
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.
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I know . Sometimes you just have to laugh. For hundreds of years and in every country, Capitalists have actively encouraged racism, classism, religious sectarianism, & other systems of oppression as tools to divide opposition. But they still keep on falling for it.
You are using that emoji to hide your digital tears. I feel for you my brother.
I get it. Socialism is too cool for you. You would rather billions perish in exploitation and despair. So there may be a work camp waiting for you. Or the barrel of a gun. But socialism is our future. Our wealth is all the wealth of all the people and is forever.
just wondering all of these “victories” if that means mr lamar’s fans will have their rent paid this year. Just wondering how this massive “victory” will impact the tuition fees of mr. lamar’s fans. Seems like a lot of ludicrous cheerleading going on for really no one’s benefit. Socialism is the only answer.
kendricks gonna go back to his mansion to fuck white bitches while all his fans talk about how deep his message was LOL. meanwhile not a single thing is gonna change after his performance except his pockets will get fatter. bloods and crips still gonna kill each other. kendrick still gonna be a confused hypocrite. america is still fucked,
Cope harder, little guy. Drake’s career is over
Everyone’s career will be “over” once socialism takes over. None of this matters anyway. Little guy.
😎 – HURT
Capitalism destroyed billions and some think it’s a big joke. Every craven capitalist will be held to full account. Yours will be ours. all wealth will belong to all the people. Only then will the hurt heal only when there’s no more ghettoes -but you keep on cheerleading some white capitalist “streams” boy
Drake’s dick finally eclipsed my butt hole
More La
Drake is gay
we can see the degeneracy of capitalism in real time. complete collapse of all morality and decency. people just lower themselves. and that’s all rap music is. a collection of the worst and the least. rap music was a lie from the very beginning. look who’s holding on now. it’s a fucking joke these degenerates.
Rough couple of weeks for Drake fans
he eclipsed drake in every way except height, shoe size, bank account, and bad bitches fucked.
cripsey muscle – COPING HARD
@crispeymuscle Cool story bro. Now put the fries in the bag, it’s getting late
Fake numbers it’s in Drakes lawsuit that he’ll win
Give it a rest Ovo, Drake isn’t going to fvck you. You’re far too old and overweight for him
Kendrick said he hates the bitches Drake fucks, then proceeds to use 2 of the bitches Drake fucked in his super bowl show! Good job contradicting yourself again Ken!
Kendrick really hurt you bad, huh? It’s kinda your fault for supporting a fruit like Drake
I’d hope so. He just did a live show in front of 150m people, but it will go back to normal in the next couple weeks.
Kendrick’s 15 minutes of fame are about to end soon. And Drake even then is still making far more money and fucking more bitches than any of you haters
Drake is literally still winning # cry harder haters