Drake Narrowly Beats NBA YoungBoy For Most Streamed Artist Of 2022 So Far
May 29, 2022
2022 is flying by at a rapid speed, and as we prepare to enter the second half of the year, @chartdata on Twitter has unveiled which artists have racked up the most impressive streaming numbers so far. As you may have guessed,
Drake and NBA YoungBoy are neck in neck for the top spot, with the Canadian coming out at #1 with 3 billion streams.
YB's grand total is a whopping 2.8 billion – sure to keep going up thanks to another
new single today, "Goals" – but he and Drake aren't the only rap stars doing numbers. The late
Juice WRLD has earned 2.2 billion of his own, followed by
The Weeknd coming in at 2 billion.
Kanye West and
Lil Durk follow the Canadian vocalist, with 1.9 billion and 1.7 billion respectively, and at the end of the list, we have
Eminem and
Future with 1.5 billion each.
The only two non-hip-hop names in the top 10 are Taylor Swift (#3 with 2.8B) and Morgan Wallen (#8 with 1.7B).

As
HipHopDX reports, a similar list was shared by @chartdata back in March, revealing who was in the lead just 10 weeks into 2022. Even back then, Champagne Papi and YB NBA came out on top (1.4B and 1.3B streams each at the time), though names like
Kodak Black and
Rod Wave also appeared beneath them and have since fallen off.
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