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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 17653" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Drake-NBA-Toronto-Raptors-Game-2022-getty-full.jpg?w=1600&amp;h=660&amp;crop=1" alt="Drake NBA Toronto Raptors Game 2022" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty Image<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/drake-donate-1-million-lebron-james-i-promise-school/" target="_blank">Drake</a> is the king of streaming. Even just looking at <a href="https://uproxx.com/indie/tame-impala-billion-streams-spotify-less-i-know-the-better/" target="_blank">Spotify</a> numbers, he’s been the platform’s most-streamed artists on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_artists_on_Spotify#By_year" target="_blank">three separate years</a> (more times than anybody else) and he was the platform’s most-streamed artist of the 2010s. His popularity continued in 2021: <a href="https://www.billboard.com/pro/streaming-music-shallow-catalog-growth-drake/" target="_blank">Billboard</a><a href="https://www.billboard.com/pro/streaming-music-shallow-catalog-growth-drake/" target="_blank"> reports</a> last year, his music had more on-demand audio streams in the US than the combined total streams of every song from before 1980.Billboard breaks it down:Looking at other data, it would seem <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/taylor-swift-phoebe-bridgers-music-impactful/" target="_blank">Taylor Swift</a> also beat everything pre-1980 last year, as <a href="https://www.billboard.com/pro/2021-album-sales-bts-taylor-swift-drake/" target="_blank">Billboard</a><a href="https://www.billboard.com/pro/2021-album-sales-bts-taylor-swift-drake/" target="_blank"> previously reported</a>, “Drake racked up nearly 1.9 billion more on-demand audio streams [in the US] than Swift, the country’s second most-streamed artist, who accounted for 0.61% of all on-demand audio streams.”While the all-time streaming charts tend to favor new music, there is one song from the ’70s that has thrived: <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/library-of-congress-wu-tang-tribe-called-quest-recording-registry/" target="_blank">Queen’s</a> “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the only song from the decade in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify" target="_blank">the top 100 most-streamed songs on Spotify</a> (and just one of two from before the 2000s, alongside Oasis’ “<a href="https://uproxx.com/indie/song-90s-billion-spotify-streams-oasis-wonderwall/" target="_blank">Wonderwall</a>“). On Spotify’s official 240-song <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7iB3RCnBnN4" target="_blank">“BILLIONS CLUB” playlist</a>, which collects songs with a billion streams on the platform, Queen has four songs, while Drake has eight. Swift’s sole entry on the playlist is her Zayn collaboration “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever.”<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/drake-taylor-swift-more-streams-1980/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 17653, member: 81"] [IMG alt="Drake NBA Toronto Raptors Game 2022"]https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Drake-NBA-Toronto-Raptors-Game-2022-getty-full.jpg?w=1600&h=660&crop=1[/IMG] [UWSL]Getty Image[/UWSL] [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/drake-donate-1-million-lebron-james-i-promise-school/']Drake[/URL] is the king of streaming. Even just looking at [URL='https://uproxx.com/indie/tame-impala-billion-streams-spotify-less-i-know-the-better/']Spotify[/URL] numbers, he’s been the platform’s most-streamed artists on [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_artists_on_Spotify#By_year']three separate years[/URL] (more times than anybody else) and he was the platform’s most-streamed artist of the 2010s. His popularity continued in 2021: [I][URL='https://www.billboard.com/pro/streaming-music-shallow-catalog-growth-drake/']Billboard[/URL][/I][URL='https://www.billboard.com/pro/streaming-music-shallow-catalog-growth-drake/'] reports[/URL] last year, his music had more on-demand audio streams in the US than the combined total streams of every song from before 1980. [I]Billboard[/I] breaks it down: Looking at other data, it would seem [URL='https://uproxx.com/pop/taylor-swift-phoebe-bridgers-music-impactful/']Taylor Swift[/URL] also beat everything pre-1980 last year, as [I][URL='https://www.billboard.com/pro/2021-album-sales-bts-taylor-swift-drake/']Billboard[/URL][/I][URL='https://www.billboard.com/pro/2021-album-sales-bts-taylor-swift-drake/'] previously reported[/URL], “Drake racked up nearly 1.9 billion more on-demand audio streams [in the US] than Swift, the country’s second most-streamed artist, who accounted for 0.61% of all on-demand audio streams.” While the all-time streaming charts tend to favor new music, there is one song from the ’70s that has thrived: [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/library-of-congress-wu-tang-tribe-called-quest-recording-registry/']Queen’s[/URL] “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the only song from the decade in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify']the top 100 most-streamed songs on Spotify[/URL] (and just one of two from before the 2000s, alongside Oasis’ “[URL='https://uproxx.com/indie/song-90s-billion-spotify-streams-oasis-wonderwall/']Wonderwall[/URL]“). On Spotify’s official 240-song [URL='https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7iB3RCnBnN4']“BILLIONS CLUB” playlist[/URL], which collects songs with a billion streams on the platform, Queen has four songs, while Drake has eight. Swift’s sole entry on the playlist is her Zayn collaboration “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever.” [url="https://uproxx.com/music/drake-taylor-swift-more-streams-1980/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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