Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s high-profile feud is having two very different effects on their streaming stats.
According to Billboard, Kendrick has enjoyed a huge spike on streaming platforms in recent days, while the 6 God has seen his figures fall slightly.
The Compton rapper’s diss songs “Euphoria,” “Meet the Grahams” and “Not Like Us” have all logged millions of streams, with the former racking up a staggering 27.6 million on-demand streams in the U.S. alone between May 3 and 6.
“Euphoria” debuted at No. 11 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 and could climb to No. 1 on next week’s chart. “Not Like Us” is also in contention for the top spot having registered 21.1 million streams in its first three days of release.
The tracks have also provided a boost for the various songs sampled by Kendrick, with Teddy Pendegrass’ “You’re My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration” seeing a 76 percent increase in streams.
Al Green’s “What a Wonderful Thing Love Is” also shot up 283 percent after being flipped on “6:16 in LA” which has not yet been released on streaming platforms.
Beyond his diss records against Drake, Kendrick’s back catalog is also enjoying a windfall, with his overall discography earning 50.62 million streams from May 3-6 — up 49 percent from the same Friday-to-Monday tracking period last week.
Drizzy’s discography, meanwhile, suffered a 4.9 percent dip between these same periods, despite him releasing two diss tracks of his own.
His catalog fell from 105.9 million streams between April 26 and 29 to 100.7 million from May 3-6.
However, the 6 God’s streaming stats are still roughly double K. Dot’s and he remains the most streamed artist in Spotify history by a large margin with over 98 billion spins to his name.
In another metric that may wound Drake’s pride, Kendrick Lamar recently broke his record for the biggest single-day streams of a Hip Hop song in U.S. Spotify history with “Not Like Us.”
The Mustard-produced banger has now surpassed Drizzy and Lil Baby’s blockbuster hit “Girls Like Girls,” which previously held the record of 6.593 million streams in a day.
The track blew away “Girls Like Girls” as it totaled 11 million streams in just one day.
On the radio-friendly song, Kendrick continued his assault on Drake and repeated claims that he had improper relationships with young girls.
“Say Drake, I hear you like ’em young/ You better not ever go to cell block one/ To any bitch that talk to him and they in love/ Just make sure you hide your little sister from him,” he rapped.
The Compton native also accused his rival of having an affair with Lil Wayne‘s girlfriend while the Young Money boss was in jail on gun charges.
Drake denied the pedophilia allegations on his response record “The Heart Part 6.”
Kendrick Queens don’t want to admit it, but J Fold was right when he said no one discussed Kendrick outside of dissing
Kendrick’s 15 minutes of fame won’t last. Champions remain while dickriders lose
Dude been a household name for 10 years at least. Try again with your alternative reality livin ass
“Household name” but had to rely on taylor swift for his only hit until he became a hater for drake after drake didn’t give a fuck about kendrick dickriding drake. Fuck outta here.
Drake has so many hit singles on his own and for every person who turns on drake, some rising star will look to drake for a cosign. Drake winning
Gay Greg can’t stop crying 🤣😂🤣
You aren’t getting paid to dickride kendrick. He doesn’t know who the fuck you are
But you can pay me to D* ride me, Gay Greg. #OVHoe
Kendrick keeps winning. Even Ak admits he lost. It’s over.
kendrick with the w
ill admit i listen to drake more than any other rapper but kdot wins this. no need to be salty about it
Other than Drake’s subreddit, I haven’t seen anybody say Drake is winning. Multiple celebs and rappers all saying Kendrick won. Even the numbers show Kendrick is winning.
if I was Drake I wouldn’t be too quick to bust on Lamer. Let him win for a minute to see who really a bitch out here. Like I said give 6 weeks to cook. Maybe even let those first appearances slide. See who’s loyal who really bitch then move.
But you’re not Drake, you’re Gay Greg. #OVHoe
It’s over.
Reminder @greatgreg: Let the intelligent adults talk. And your last comment to me absolutely proves i am right.
I mean this is a very weird, skewed way of viewing it. Kendrick won the beef, we all know that. But Drakes streaming #’s are still double Kendricks.
Drake is a pop artist. A very large portion of his fans are teenage girls, so that’s not surprising. My 13 year old niece just went to see the Drake / J Cole show a month or so ago. She said she doesn’t know any J Cole songs, and only went for Drake….. along with 8 of her fellow 13 year old friends. Evidently there were kids everywhere…. for the pop artist.
Like Rick Ross, Drizzy must’ve broken K. Dot’s heart 💔
Drake gotta find a picture of Kendrick’s bruised up fiance to show his K-Dot’s greatest hits. Or should I say Dave Free’s greatest hits lol
ATTENTION: Sam the beyond pathetic simp B00re and the rest of the non-credible, fraudulent, embarrassing, laughable, corny, cringy, retarded DuncecapD/X SHIT STAFF: YOU SH0RT BUS RIDERS ALREADY REACHED YOUR OVER RATED AF FRUITCAKE DRAKE QUOTA FOR THE MONTH LIKE 179 IRRELEVANT ASS ARTICLES AGO. STUPID AZZ MFERS GET DRAKE’S BUTT HOLE OUT OF YOUR MOUTHS AND GO GET REAL JOBS WHERE YOU BUFFOONS CAN ACTUALLY MAKE REAL MONEY AND NOT GET TOTALLY LAUGHED AT EVERYDAY THE WAY YOU DO NOW.
I think hip hop needs this. But I never enjoy watching two brothers beefing!
I think hip hop needs this. But I never enjoy watching two brothers beefing!