She needed to lose you to gain streams — one billion, to be exact. Selena Gomez has surpassed a billion Spotify listens for her blockbuster 2019 track “Lose You to Love Me,” a milestone she celebrated on Instagram Wednesday (March 22). The streaming service announced the news on social media, tweeting, “All the love for @selenagomez ❤️ Congratulations for 1 Billion streams on Lose …
Last year, many of the biggest artists in the industry blessed the Hip-Hop community with amazing projects. From J.I.D.’s The Forever Story to Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry, fans were eating all throughout 2022. However, one album has been in every single “album of the year” debate: Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Obviously, K. Dot’s latest full-length …
Em’s Grammy-winning joint with Fifty has become his 40th song to earn the milestone of 200 million Spotify plays. The song was released as the lead single from “Relapse” in February 2009 and broke the first week digital sales record with 418,000 downloads. “Crack A Bottle” was leaked and released on the 4th Quarter Pressure Part 2 mixtape. Initially, it …
Drake is the king of streams in rap and routinely among the most streamed artists in the world, regardless of genre. A recent pull of market data by Billboard proved not only is the 6 God resetting what current trends are on the streaming charts, but he’s also outpacing entire decades of music. The data record revealed the …
Eminem is regarded as one of the best lyricists in Spotify history, and the numbers definitely back it up. The Detroit rapper hasn’t put out a project in 2020, but is still shattering various streaming records. According to Chart Data, Eminem has now broken the record for most albums with over 1 billion streams in Spotify history. This is after …
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 3Music Awards, Sadiq Abdulai Abu, has advised promising stars to go beyond the celebration of one million streams of their songs online. Describing the celebration as ‘sub-standard’, he urged rising artists to deliberately pursue more than one million streams with superior strategy. Sadiq Abu also shot down claims by most artists that the country’s …
Roddy Ricch’s iconic single “The Box” has officially hit a major milestone, surpassing one billion streams on Spotify. Has an artist ever captivated audiences with one single as decisively as Roddy Ricch has with “The Box?” Despite being released at the tail end of 2019, the Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial highlight has remained a mainstay on the Billboard charts, though it has …
Drake is closing out the decade with a bang. Spotify released its “A Decade Wrapped” list, and Drake was named Artist of the Decade. According to the streaming service, Drake tops the list with over 28 billion streams overall. Second to Drake is English artiste Ed Sheeran whose hit single “Shape of You” was streamed over 2.3 billion times …
R.I.P X. It has been almost a year since XXXTENTACION has passed. The 20-year-old rapper was fatally shot in his car in Florida and the news indubitably shook the Hip Hop community. Since his passing, the rapper has gained greater popularity posthumously. For instance, we recently reported on the rapper leading the 2018 top songwriter’s list along with Drake and 6ix9ine. Rapper PnB Rock even …
Kwesi Arthur’s “Live From Nkrumah Krom Vol. II (Home Run)” has been streamed over 2million on Spotify and Apple Music. This new record comes in less than two weeks of release. Last week, the album dominated several charts on Apple Music including “Top 100: Ghana”, “Party Starters”, “Afrobeats Hits”, “Top Songs” and “World Album” charts. “We did 2 million streams …
