Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow‘s 2021 single “Industry Baby” is now the most streamed song of the 2020s – which means they’ve officially dethroned Drake and Future‘s 2020 smash “Life Is Good.”
Chart Data revealed the news in a tweet on Wednesday (February 15), surprisingly arriving just after the video for “Life Is Good” eclipsed two billion views on YouTube – becoming only the third Hip Hop track to do so.
The What A Time To Be Alive collaborators follow in the footsteps of Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” and Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” in the two-billion club.
This isn’t the first time Jack Harlow has knocked Drake and Future out of a spot. In May, his Fergie-sampling “First Class” single reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 from the pair, who previously held it with their “WAIT FOR U” collaboration with Tems.
Harlow can’t take all the spots, though. Drake became the undisputed top streaming artist in any genre for 2022 with 6.7 billion streams for the year, while NBA YoungBoy sat behind him with 5.4 billion. They beat out music titans such as Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and The Weeknd to round out the Top 5.
Meanwhile, Future became the reigning champ of song streams on Apple Music for 2022. The Atlanta star secured his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 as a lead artist earlier in the year thanks to the success of his aforementioned “WAIT FOR U” single with Drake and Tems, and it then became Apple Music’s most streamed song of the year.
The song proved a huge success for him, but it actually almost went to Kanye West.
During a June interview with B High Atl, “WAIT FOR U” co-producer ATL Jacob revealed Ye also took a liking to the beat and recorded to it, but ultimately failed to turn it into a finished song.
“What’s crazy is before ‘WAIT FOR U’ came out, that was one of [Kanye’s] favorite songs,” Jacob said. “He was like, ‘Man, this record crazy!’ So we was trying some stuff on it but you know, we just ain’t get to the point where we actually finished ‘WAIT FOR U.’”
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