XXXTENTACION might not be with us within the bodily, however he’s nonetheless making his presence referred to as his 2018 album ? has topped Spotify’s record of their most streamed rap albums of all time.
The streaming platform revealed the highest 50 record on Monday (July 3), encompassing all information since its inception. Outside of X within the No. 1 spot, the highest 5 is rounded out by Drake‘s Scorpion at No. 2, his Views album at No. 3, the late Juice WRLD‘s Goodbye & Good Riddance at No. 4 and Travis Scott‘s Astroworld at No. 5.
? topping the list may come as a surprise to some – but when you look at the data, it makes sense. Four songs on the album have racked up more than a billion streams each – “hope,” “changes,” and the mega-hit “moonlight” – while the album’s largest hit “SAD!” now has over 2 billion streams. The latter is at present the fiftieth most-streamed tune on all the platform.
You can view the record in full under.
The information arrives simply weeks after the five-year anniversary of XXXTENTACION’s passing. To honor his legacy that day, his property has shared a brand new tune titled “I’m Not Human.”
The posthumous observe was initially teased for a January launch to commemorate the Florida star’s twenty fifth birthday however was then held until his dying anniversary.
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The minimalist acoustic lower options vocals by Lil Uzi Vert and manufacturing credit by longtime collaborator John Cunningham, with the latter sharing a observe together with the tune’s launch.
“When I was living with Jah in Florida in 2018 we would spend most days in his room, me playing guitar and him singing,” Cunningham wrote. “The day he first sang ‘I’m not human’ as I was playing that guitar part we both looked at each other and cracked a smile, knowing it was special. We listened back to the voice memo he recorded and talked about finishing it.”
He continued: “the few times that we tried recording vocals in the studio the feeling was never the same and he always preferred the original voice memo which is why we chose to keep it in the official version of the song.”
XXXTENTACION was murdered throughout a theft in Deerfield Beach, FL in 2018. The three males charged with the killing have been sentenced to life in jail with no probability of parole earlier this 12 months.
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