Every Hip-Hop Artist With Over 1 Million Monthly Spotify Listeners
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In March, Spotify reached the 50 million paid subscriber plateau. Along with their unpaid user base, the most popular streaming platform in the world currently boasts over 100 million active users. Though a vast number hip-hop fans prefer competing subscription services like Apple Music (because its exclusives) and TIDAL (because Jay Z) over Spotify, not to mention free options like Audiomack and SoundCloud, Spotify will likely remain the king the streaming castle for the foreseeable future.
Spotify owes its success to a number factors, most notably a clean user interface and an expansive music library—save for most Jay Z's catalog, along with Dr. Dre and a handful others—but its music curation, millions playlists and daily updated charts are undoubtedly what has helped the platform grow over time while retaining its user base.
One chart that doesn't exist, though, is a ranked list all artists by monthly listeners, which is one the several metrics, along with total plays and plays by country, that is made available to the public. (It's important to note that neither Apple Music nor TIDAL discloses artist, song or album analytics to their paying customers.)
For several years now, people have been asking Spotify to deliver a chart that provides an up-to-the-minute ranking artists by their total monthly listeners, but to date, they have only fered Top 200 and Viral 50 charts, which users can filter by country and date.
That changes today.
Below you will find a list every hip-hop artist—as well as a number R&B artists whose sound and image are synonymous with hip-hop—that currently has over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, along with their top streamed song on the platform.
To make your browsing experience more friendly, we have separated artists into four tiers based on their total monthly listeners: “We Gonna Make It” (1 to 4.9M), “FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt” (5 to 9.9M), “Kinda Like a Big Deal” (10 to 19.9M) and, finally, “I Got The Keys” (20M+).
While running through the list, it's important to keep four things in mind:
1. If your favorite artist doesn't appear, it's because they do not currently (as May 19, 2017) have over 1 million monthly listeners. Upset? Get to streaming.
2. Artists like Jay Z (7.9M), Beyoncé (17.1M) and Dr. Dre (6.2M) have not made their entire catalog available on Spotify because their stakes in competing streaming services. If they did, however, their monthly listener totals would be higher.
3. We're confident we found every single artist that meets our minimum criteria standard—at least 1 million monthly listeners—but there's a strong likelihood we did miss a few artists. We will update accordingly moving forward, we promise.
4. This is a fun exercise. Please keep this in mind as these numbers are constantly updating.
And here we go…
“I Got The Keys” (20M+)
38M Drake (“One Dance” – 1.2B)
31M Kendrick Lamar (“HUMBLE.” – 217M)
29M Nicki Minaj (“Only” – 180M)
28M The Weeknd (“Can’t Feel My Face” – 703M)
27M Future (“Low Life” – 271M)
26M Ty Dolla $ign (“Swalla” – 157M)
25M Rihanna (“Work” – 674M)
24M DJ Khaled (“For Free” – 118M)
20M Kanye West (“FourFiveSeconds” – 380M)
20M G-Eazy (“Me, Myself & I” – 600M)
“Kinda Like a Big Deal” (10 to 19.9M)
19M Pitbull (“Timber” – 430M)
17M Beyonce (“Halo” – 280M)
17M Eminem (“Lose Yourself” – 351M)
17M Wiz Khalifa (“See You Again” – 648M)
15M Lil Wayne (“A Milli” – 105M)
15M Big Sean (“Bounce Back” – 210M)
15M Kehlani (“Gangsta” – 82M)
14M Chris Brown (“Five More Hours” – 326M)
14M Migos (“Bad and Boujee” – 280M)
13.9M Post Malone (“White Iverson” – 276M)
13.8M French Montana (“No Shopping” – 63M)
13.3M Lil Uzi Vert (“XO Tour Llif3” – 106M)
13.1M Khalid (“Location” – 154M)
13.0M KYLE (“iSpy” – 223M)
12.4M Travis Scott (“Antidote” – 193M)
12.3M Rae Sremmurd (“Black Beatles” – 383M)
11.7M Logic (“1-800-273-8255” – 29M)
10.9M Machine Gun Kelly (“Bad Things” – 247M)
10.5M J. Cole (“No Role Modelz” – 307M)
10.4M Gucci Mane (“Both” – 59M)
10.1M Young Thug (“pick up the phone” – 154M)
10.0M Kodak Black (“Tunnel Vision” – 109M)
10.0M Desiigner (“Panda” – 590M)
“FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt” (5 to 9.9M)
9.8M 2 Chainz (“Watch Out” – 75M)
9.1M D.R.A.M. (“Broccoli” – 343M)
9.1M Wale (“My PYT” – 57M)
8.7M Snoop Dogg (“Young, Wild & Free” – 298M)
8.7M Childish Gambino (“Redbone” – 125M)
8.7M Chance The Rapper (“No Problem” – 172M)
8.5M Jeremih (“Don’t Tell ‘Em” – 191M)
8.5M Ne-Yo (“Time Our Lives” – 376M)
8.3M PARTYNEXTDOOR (“Run Up” – 169M)
8.0M Notorious B.I.G (“Hypnotize” – 130M)
8.0M Frank Ocean (“Thinkin Bout You” – 192M)
7.9M Jay Z (“Niggas in Paris” – 351M)
7.8M 50 Cent (“In Da Club” – 169M)
7.7M Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (“Thrift Shop” – 358M)
7.5M Tyga (“Ayo” – 243M)
7.5M Fetty Wap (“Trap Queen” – 522M)
7.1M ASAP Rocky (“Fucking Problems” – 244M)
7.1M Mike WiLL Made-It (“23” – 99M)
7.0M Outkast (“Hey Ya!” – 214M)
7.0M Trey Songz (“Slow Motion” – 162M)
6.9M Bryson Tiller (“Don’t” – 279M)
6.9M Kid Ink (“Promise” – 103M)
6.8M Rick Ross (“Purple Lamborghini” – 116M)
6.7M A Boogie Wit da Hoodie (“My Shit” – 57M)
6.3M Kid Cudi (“Pursuit Happiness” – 157M)
6.2M B.o.B (“Airplanes” – 122M)
6.2M Russ (“What They Want” – 97M)
6.2M Dr. Dre (“The Next Episode” – 185M)
6.2M Meek Mill (“All Eyes on You” – 156M)
6.0M Lil Yachty (“One Night” – 99M)
5.9M T.I. (“Whatever You Like” – 92M)
5.8M 2Pac (“Ambitionz Az A Ridah” – 83M)
5.8M Sage The Gemini (“Now and Later” – 155M)
5.7M Yo Gotti (“Down in the DM” – 100M)
5.7M ScHoolboy Q (“Man the Year” – 115M)
5.6M YG (“My N*gga” – 122M) “FDT” doesn’t show up in Popular]
5.6M Joey Badass (“Devastated” – 75M)
5.5M 21 Savage (“X” – 162M)
5.5M Mac Miller (“Donald Trump” – 114M)
5.5M XXXTentacion (“Look At Me!” – 63M)
5.4M NAV (“Some Way” – 30M)
5.2M Fat Joe (“All The Way Up” – 105M)
5.1M Metro Boomin (“X” – 162M)
5.0M The Game (“100” – 66M)
5.0M A$AP Ferg (“Work (Remix)” – 99M)
5.0M Tinie Tempah (“Girls Like” – 168M)
“We Gonna Make It” (1 to 4.9M)
4.8M Tory Lanez (“LUV” – 159M)
4.8M Kevin Gates (“2 Phones” – 154M)
4.7M Busta Rhymes (“Don’t Cha” – 73M)
4.7M Aminé (“Caroline” – 217M)
4.6M Lil Jon (“Turn Down For What” – 256M)
4.6M Madeintyo (“Uber Everywhere” – 109M)
4.6M T-Pain (“Buy U A Drank” – 74M)
4.2M DMX (“X Gon Give It To You” – 124M)
4.2M Lupe Fiasco (“The Show Goes On” – 65M)
4.1M 6LACK (“PRBLMS” – 47M)
4.1M Stormzy (“Shut Up” – 52M)
4.1M Juicy J (“Bandz a Make Her Dance” – 55M)
4.1M Ludacris (“My Chick Bad” – 31M)
4.1M Playboi Carti (“wokeuplikethis” – 15M)
4.1M Miguel (“Adorn” – 99M)
4.1M DJ Mustard (“In My Room” – 110M)
4.0M Pusha T (“Trouble on My Mind” – 31M)
4.0M PnB Rock (“Selfish” – 66M)
3.8M Ayo & Teo (“Rolex” – 62M)
3.8M Omarion (“Post To Be” – 182M)
3.7M Rob $tone (“Chill Bill” – 194M)
3.7M Waka Flocka Flame (“No Hands” – 98M)
3.5M Roy Woods (“Drama” – 62M)
3.5M Remy Ma (“All The Way Up” – 105M)
3.4M will.i.am (“Scream & Shout” – 198M)
3.4M Diddy (“Ill Be Missing You – 3.4M)
3.4M Rich Homie Quan (“Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)” – 161M)
3.3M Missy Elliott (“Get Your Freak On” – 53M)
3.2M Tee Grizzley (“First Day Out” – 31M)
3.1M YFN Lucci (“Key to the Streets” – 36M)
3.1M ASAP Mob (“Yamborgini High” – 33M)
3.0M Nas (“If I Ruled The World” – 47M)
3.0M Ice Cube (“It Was a Good Day” – 90M)
3.0M O.T. Genasis (“Cut It” – 107M)
3.0M SZA (“Childs Play” – 28M)
2.9M Soulja Boy (“Crank That” – 74M)
2.9M Young Money (“Trophies” – 88M)
2.7M Jidenna (“Classic Man” – 109M)
2.7M Jeezy (“Put On” – 54M)
2.7M N.W.A (“Straight Outta Compton” – 79M)
2.7M August Alsina (“I Luve This Shit” – 48M)
2.6M GoldLink (“Crew” – 14M)
2.6M Jhené Aiko (“The Worst” – 67M)
2.5M Young M.A (“OOOUUU” – 112M)
2.4M Ja Rule (“Always on Time” – 42M)
2.4M Lil Dicky (“Save Dat Money” – 94M)
2.4M Fabolous (“Into You” – 22M)
2.4M Young Dolph (“Play Wit Yo Bitch” – 4M)
2.4M ILoveMakonnen (“Tuesday” – 116M)
2.3M Big Boi (“Shutterbugg” – 10M)
2.2M Chief Keef (“Love Sosa” – 51M)
2.1M Ugly God (“Water” – 54M)
2.1M Fort Minor (“Remember The Name” – 146M)
2.1M A Tribe Called Quest (“Can I Kick It?” – 44M)
2.1M Ying Yang Twins (“Get Low” – 85M)
2.1M K Camp (“Comfortable” – 55M)
2.0M DJ Drama (“Wishing” – 44M)
2.0M Tech N9ne (“Hood Go Crazy” – 33M)
2.0M Wu-Tang Clan (“C.R.E.A.M.” – 52M)
2.0M Nebu Kiniza (“Gassed Up” – 53M)
1.9M Lil' Kim (“Lady Marmalade” – 58M)
1.9M Vic Mensa (“U Mad” – 33M)
1.8M Anderson .Paak (“Am I Wrong” – 19M)
1.8M Lloyd Banks (“You Don’t Know” – 46M)
1.8M Tyler, The Creator (“Yonkers” – 54M)
1.8M Dae Dae (“What U Mean” 36M)
1.7M E-40 (“Choices (Yup)” – 31M)
1.7M Warren G (“Regulate” – 84M)
1.7M Denzel Curry (“Ultimate” – 62M)
1.7M Lloyd (“You” – 23M)
1.6M The Roots (“The Seed 2.0” – 39M)
1.6M Bobby Shmurda (“Hot N*gga” – 134M)
1.6M Eve (“Let Me Blow Ya Mind” – 59M)
1.6M Yelawolf (“Till Its Gone” – 54M)
1.6M Vince Staples (“Norf Norf” – 30M)
1.6M Action Bronson (“Baby Blue” – 48M)
1.5M Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony (“Tha Crossroads” – 31M)
1.5M Mobb Deep (“Shock Ones Pt. II” – 47M)
1.5M Eazy-E (“Real Muthaphuckin G’s – 22M)
1.5M Hoodie Allen (“No Interruption” – 52M)
1.5M Common (“Glory” – 26M)
1.5M Lil Durk (“Like Me” – 25M)
1.5M Isaiah Rashad (“Free Lunch” – 12M)
1.5M Skizzy Mars – (“Do You There” – 15M)
1.5M dvsn (“Hallucinations” – 26M)
1.5M BJ The Chicago Kid (“Turnin’ Me Up” – 17M)
1.5M NF (“Grindin” – 19M)
1.4M Skepta (“Shutdown” – 35M)
1.4M Twista (“Slow Jamz” – 20M)
1.4M Bankroll Fresh (“Walked In” – 46M)
1.4M Ab-Soul (“Illuminate” – 13M)
1.4M DeJ Loaf (“Back Up” – 77M)
1.4M Eric Bellinger (“Valet” – 59M)
1.3M Mike Stud (“These Days” – 24M)
1.3M D12 (“My Band” – 27M)
1.3M Rich Gang (“Lifestyle” – 93M)
1.3M Method Man (“Da Rockwilder” – 26M)
1.3M Cam’ron (“Hey Ma” – 33M)
1.3M Ace Hood (“Bugatti” – 56M)
1.3M Majid Jordan (“My Love” – 22M)
1.2M Rich Chigga (“Dat $tick” – 26M)
1.2M LL Cool J (“Doin It” – 21M)
1.2M Run The Jewels (“Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” – 20M)
1.2M Mos Def (“Ms. Fat Booty” – 35M)
1.2M Syd (“YOU’RE THE ONE” – 9M)
1.2M Ray J (“Sexy Can I” – 28M)
1.1M Three 6 Mafia (“Stay Fly” – 17M)
1.1M Bow Wow (“Shortie Like Mine” – 15M)
1.1M Chingy (“Right Thurr” – 25M)
1.1M Hopsin (“Ill Mind Hopsin 5” – 30M)
1.1M Earl Sweatshirt (“Chum” – 27M)
1.1M Lil Pump (“Flex Like Ouu” – 5M)
1.1M Lecrae (“All I Need Is You” – 15M)
1.0M Andy Mineo (“You Can't Stop Me” – 25M)
1.0M Q-Tip (“A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” – 101M)
1.0M Smino (“blkswn” – 2M)
1.0M Freddie Gibbs (“Crushed Glass” – 810K)
1.0M Dave East (“Wrote My Way Out” – 5.4M)
1.0M Bad Meets Evil (“Lighters” – 57M)
1.0M Danny Brown (“Grown Up” – 24M)
1.0M Mick Jenkins (“Jazz” – 15M)
1.0M Juvenile (“Back That Azz Up” – 22M)
1.0M Plies (“Ran Off On The Plug Twice” – 21M)
