XXXTENTACION‘s death has led to even more success for his music, specifically when it concerns streams.
According to Spotify Charts, X’s “SAD!” broke a global record on the streaming service with the most streams in a single day. The ? record received 10.4 million streams globally on Tuesday (June 19), the day after the South Florida rapper was killed in a suspected robbery.
That particular Spotify record was previously held by Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” which got 10.1 million streams on August 25, 2017.
News of X’s accomplishment is in stark contrast to him getting delisted from Spotify-curated playlists (along with R. Kelly) when the company announced its (now-scrapped) “Hateful Conduct” policy in May.
In addition to breaking the streaming record on Tuesday, songs from X — including “Moonlight,” “Jocelyn Flores” and “Fuck Love” — held the top seven spots on Spotify’s global Top 200 chart. As of writing, he currently holds the top four spots.
Outside of Spotify, the controversial rapper’s music sales increased by 1,603 percent in the United States, according to Billboard. “SAD!” served as his biggest selling record on Monday (June 18), moving 6,000 copies. With only 1,000 copies of “SAD!” sold on the previous day, the song saw a 1,143 percent increase in sales.
?, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 when it was released in March, is expected to return to the Top 10 on the next chart.
Days prior to his death, XXXTENTACION’s “SAD!” and the PnB Rock-assisted “Changes” were both certified platinum by the RIAA.
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Huge middle finger to Spotify…good for him
Such is the relationship between artists and death.
I know Spotify is having mixed feelings towards this. If X’s music was still off their playlists, they would’ve rushed to put it back on after he died only so they could get paid a hefty sum off the streams. But since they put his music back up in the nick of time, bet some of them are feeling like shit right now about how they removed his music in the first place because of some bullshit policy that concerned his personal life. What a lowlife company. RIP, X, you don’t gotta deal with the bullshit no more.
I forget, did Spotify John Lennon when they had that policy? I mean he did whoop Yoko Ono’s ass
Who cares! One less wack rapper in the world fuck.
Man you sound very ignorant! I personally don’t like his sound hell I didn’t even bother getting online and stream it after his death but I can say this : that was a human being and I relate to the pain his family and friends are going through ure a dick man and as whack of a person as you are I still wouldn’t troll on your death like you just did to X ure a waste of air
XXXTentacion live on, kid. Wish you had more time. Fuck Spotify.
So is that record attributed to talent or murder? Dude’s buzz was gone, nobody gave a fuck except for the die hards
You realize the kid just a had number one album in March?