XXXTENTACION may no longer be with us in the physical, but he’s still making his presence known as his 2018 album ? has topped Spotify’s list of their most streamed rap albums of all time.
The streaming platform revealed the top 50 list on Monday (July 3), encompassing all data since its inception. Outside of X in the No. 1 spot, the top 5 is rounded out by Drake‘s Scorpion at No. 2, his Views album at No. 3, the late Juice WRLD‘s Goodbye & Good Riddance at No. 4 and Travis Scott‘s Astroworld at No. 5.
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? topping the list may come as a surprise to some – but when you look at the data, it makes sense. Four songs on the album have racked up more than a billion streams each – “hope,” “changes,” and the mega-hit “moonlight” – while the album’s biggest hit “SAD!” now has over 2 billion streams. The latter is currently the 50th most-streamed song on the entire platform.
You can view the list in full below.
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The news arrives just weeks after the five-year anniversary of XXXTENTACION’s passing. To honor his legacy that day, his estate has shared a new song titled “I’m Not Human.”
The posthumous track was originally teased for a January release to commemorate the Florida star’s 25th birthday but was then held till his death anniversary.
The minimalist acoustic cut features vocals by Lil Uzi Vert and production credits by longtime collaborator John Cunningham, with the latter sharing a note along with the song’s release.
“When I was living with Jah in Florida in 2018 we would spend most days in his room, me playing guitar and him singing,” Cunningham wrote. “The day he first sang ‘I’m not human’ as I was playing that guitar part we both looked at each other and cracked a smile, knowing it was special. We listened back to the voice memo he recorded and talked about finishing it.”
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He continued: “the few times that we tried recording vocals in the studio the feeling was never the same and he always preferred the original voice memo which is why we chose to keep it in the official version of the song.”
XXXTENTACION was murdered during a robbery in Deerfield Beach, FL in 2018. The three men charged with the killing were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole earlier this year.
