Every hip-hop tune with over 1 billion streams

At one cut-off date, hip-hop and its wealthy tradition was a suppressed underground artwork kind that was not current within the mainstream. As a scene created by the youth, it had no respect.

In contrast to disco, funk or pop-rock, the institution didn’t broadcast rap music to the lots on a large scale and most undoubtedly didn’t contemplate it a menace. Nonetheless, the style’s rising reputation nationwide and internationally over time has made it unimaginable for the mainstream media to suppress what was an progressive phenomenon.

Nonetheless, with every technology, new applied sciences have meant a change within the technique of consumption. When hip-hop emerged, gross sales have been calculated primarily based on the variety of bodily 12″ vinyls offered. This technique then started to bear in mind the variety of cassette tapes offered, and this was how rap was consumed properly into the mid-Eighties.

Nonetheless, the 1990s saw a shift to CDs, and the sale of vinyl started to say no slowly. Fortuitously, this smaller, shinier disc was nonetheless bodily. However in 2003, when the iTunes Retailer launched a characteristic for buying and downloading digital music, gross sales entered a non-physical period.

Streaming has been a present and curse to artists worldwide, together with rappers. At first, this was nice as folks have been nonetheless buying and downloading music, which was simply quantifiable. Nonetheless, within the late 2000s, platforms resembling MySpace and Spotify started to appear, the place the general public may entry widespread music free of charge. 

The consumption of music free of charge on platforms resembling Spotify has proven hip-hop to be one of many world’s hottest genres. Nonetheless, for the reason that public rollout of Spotify, artists and establishments alike have been involved about the way streaming has skewed and distorted album sales.

Though it has hindered the calculation of album gross sales, it has set extra seen and obvious milestones of success within the music business. Akin to YouTube, when an artist manages to accrue greater than 10 million often, it’s a signal that individuals are gravitating in the direction of their music. Typically, these numbers can lead musicians to signal file offers immediately.

Whereas getting into the lots of of thousands and thousands is a feat aspiring musicians may solely want to obtain, surpassing one billion streams is the diamond normal of streaming. It’s uncommon for an artist to have greater than a handful of tracks which have handed this threshold, however even one is an astronomical achievement.

Though reaching one billion streams is normally an indicator of an artist’s reputation, longevity and legendary standing in hip-hop, often, one-hit-wonders discover themselves exceeding one billion after which struggling to generate traction with anything. 

24kGoldn finds himself within the membership following a viral hit in 2020 that stemmed from TikTok with not a lot else to indicate, and Fetty Wap surpassed one billion together with his solely profitable hit, ‘Trap Queen’.

It could not essentially be filled with legends, however the ‘One Billion Club’ is an effective signal of who hip-hop considers the perfect artists proper now. Beneath you’ll be able to see 100 tracks which have exceeded the unfathomable quantity.

Every hip-hop tune with over one billion streams:

• Drake – ‘God’s Plan’
• Drake – ‘Passionfruit’
• Drake – ‘In My Feelings’
• Drake – ‘Hotline Bling’
• Drake – ‘Nice For What’
• Drake – ‘Nonstop’
• Drake that includes Wizkid & Kyla – ‘One Dance’
• Drake that includes Rihanna – ‘Too Good’  
• Drake – ‘Toosie Slide’
• Future that includes Drake ‘Life Is Good’
• Meek Mill that includes Drake ‘Going Bad’
• 21 Savage – ‘Bank Account’
• Submit Malone that includes 21 Savage – ‘Rock Star’
• Juice Wrld – Lucid Desires’
• Juice Wrld – ‘All Girls Are the Same’
• Juice Wrld – ‘Robbery’
• Eminem that includes Juice Wrld ‘Godzilla’
• Submit Malone – ‘White Iverson’
• Submit Malone that includes 21 Savage – ‘Rock Star’ 
• Submit Malone that includes Quavo – ‘Congratulations’
• Submit Malone – ‘Go Flex’
• Submit Malone – ‘Circles’
• Submit Malone – ‘Wow.’
• Submit Malone – ‘Better Now’
• Submit Malone – ‘I Fall Apart’
• Submit Malone that includes Younger Thug – ‘Goodbyes’
• Submit Malone that includes Ty Dolla $ign – ‘Psycho’ 
• Submit Malone – ‘Candy Paint’
• Submit Malone that includes Swae Lee – ‘Sunflower’
• XXXTentacion – ‘SAD!’
• XXXTentacion – ‘Jocelyn Flores’
• XXXTentacion – ‘Moonlight’
• XXXTentacion – ‘Everybody Dies in Their Nightmares’
• XXXTentacion that includes Trippie Redd – ‘F**k Love’ 
• XXXTentacion – ‘Changes’
• XXXTentacion ‘Look At Me!’
• XXXTentacion – ‘Hope”
• XXXTentacion ‘Revenge’
• Lil Peep and XXXTentacion – ‘Falling Down’
• Wiz Khalifa that includes Charlie Puth – ‘See You Again’ 
• Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa that includes Bruno Mars – ‘Young, Wild & Free’ 
• Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Think about Dragons – ‘Sucker for Pain’ 
• Lil Nas X that includes Billy Ray Cyrus – ‘Old Town Road (Remix)’ 
• Lil Nas X that includes Jack Harlow – ‘Industry Baby’ 
• Lil Nas X – ‘That’s What I Need’
• Lil Nas X – ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’
• French Montana that includes Swae Lee – ‘Unforgettable’ 
• Roddy Ricch – ‘The Box’
• DaBaby that includes Roddy Ricch – ‘Rockstar’ 
• DJ Khaled that includes Justin Bieber, Quavo, Probability The Rapper & Lil Wayne – ‘I’m the One’
• Travis Scott – ‘Goosebumps’
• Travis Scott – ‘Sicko Mode’
• Travis Scott – ‘Highest in the Room’
• Travis Scott – ‘Butterfly Effect’
• Kodak Black that includes Travis Scott and Offset – ‘Zeze’
• Lil Uzi Vert – ‘XO Tour Llif3’
• 24kGoldn that includes Iann Dior – ‘Mood’
• Kendrick Lamar – ‘HUMBLE.’
• Kendrick Lamar that includes SZA – ‘All the Stars’
• Kendrick Lamar that includes Zacari – ‘LOVE.’ 
• Kendrick Lamar that includes Jay Rock – ‘Money Trees’ 
• Kendrick Lamar – ‘DNA.’
• J. Cole – ‘No Role Modelz’
• J. Cole – ‘Middle Child’
• J. Cole – “Wet Dreamz”
• Eminem – ‘Lose Yourself’
• Eminem that includes Nate Dogg – ‘Till I Collapse’ 
• Eminem – ‘Without Me’
• Eminem – ‘The Real Slim Shady’
• Eminem that includes Rihanna – ‘Love the Way You Lie’ 
• Eminem – ‘Mockingbird’
• Eminem – ‘Rap God’
• Kanye West – ‘Stronger’
• Kanye West – ‘Heartless’
• Kanye West that includes Jamie Foxx – ‘Gold Digger’ 
• Kanye West, Rihanna and Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds’
• Jay-Z and Kanye West – ‘N***as in Paris’
• A$AP Rocky that includes Skepta – ‘Praise The Lord (Da Shine)’
• 50 Cent – ‘In Da Club’
• Pop Smoke that includes Lil Child and DaBaby – ‘For the Night’
• Cardi B that includes Dangerous Bunny and J Balvin – ‘I Like It’ 
• Cardi B that includes Megan Thee Stallion – ‘WAP’ 
• Desiigner – ‘Panda’
• Coolio that includes L.V. – ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’
• Doja Cat – ‘Woman’
• Doja Cat – ‘Need to Know’
• Doja Cat – ‘Say So’
• Doja Cat that includes SZA – ‘Kiss Me More’
• Lil Child and Gunna – ‘Dip Too Hard’
• Web Cash that includes Don Toliver, Gunna and Nav – ‘Lemonade’ 
• Dr. Dre that includes Snoop Dogg ‘Still D.R.E.’
• Tyler, The Creator that includes Kali Uchis – ‘See You Again’
• Future – ‘Mask Off’
• Pop Smoke – ‘Dior’
• Pop Smoke – ‘What You Know Bout Love’
• Fetty Wap – ‘Trap Queen’
• Nicki Minaj – ‘Starships’
• YNW Melly – ‘Murder on My Mind’
• Meek Mill that includes Drake – ‘Going Bad’ 
• Lil Peep – ‘Star Shopping’