Kendrick now heads to Australia for 8 shows in 11 days 2 SOLO stadium shows sold out months in advance & 2 added dates also set to sell out 4 sold out Spilt Milk festival dates w/ record breaking ~200k attendance. This was canceled last yr from low sales https://t.co/kq8BlzxD11

Kendrick Lamar keeps making history on the Grand National Tour Highest grossing & attended European tour by a rapper $105.6M revenue 675.5K tix sold Highest grossing European concert & boxscore by a rapper $8.5M/$18.9M Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London https://t.co/OBK7093uto

*NBA YoungBoy’s MASA tour is projected to have crossed $70M and Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia tour is projected to have crossed $100M. Both will easily enter this list when numbers are official

Top Solo Rap Tours 1. $265.1M Travis Scott - Circus Maximus 2. $110.9M Kendrick Lamar - The Big Steppers 3. $108.8M Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2 4. $108.4M 50 Cent - The Final Lap 5. $77.3M Kendrick - Damn 6. $63.7M Travis - Astroworld 7. $60.1M Drake - Would You Like Tour?

Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city has earned 7 billion streams on Spotify. It remains the 3rd highest streamed rap album released before the Billboard album streaming era began in 2014. It trails only Graduation and The Eminem Show.

DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar is the rap album with the 2nd highest streams per track of all time (737M streams per track). It trails only 17 by XXXTentacion, which averages 922M streams per track. These are the only 2 rap albums to reach 10 billion streams with less than 15 tracks.

GNX reached 3 billion streams faster than any other rap album this decade. Kendrick Lamar is the only rapper with 2 of the top 5 streamed rap albums on Spotify this year (GNX, DAMN.) He is also the only rapper with 3 of the top 10 selling rap albums this year (GNX, gkmc, DAMN.)

Kendrick Lamar’s GNX has surpassed Drake’s For All The Dogs in streams* Tracks GNX - 12 FATD - 23 Days GNX - 362 FATD - 775 Least streams Away From Home - 61M Polar Opposites - 66M All The Parties - 73M gnx - 75M Most streams luther - 1.2B tv off - 743M Rich Baby Daddy - 618M

This is major as North American tour numbers are significantly higher for American acts. NA concerts typically do 2-3x revenue. Both have proven to be a draw all over the globe and the only rappers to have single concerts do over $4M internationally (both have reached ~$8M)

Kendrick Lamar joins Travis Scott as the only hip hop artists to reach $100M in lifetime tour revenue outside of North America. Both are currently at ~$130M and rising fast. Real global stars 🙏 Other notable rappers Eminem ~$80M Drake ~$80M https://t.co/k8XQFdeXGg

63 songs have hit the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 this year. Of those, here are the least streamed tracks on Spotify: 60. Drake - What Did I Miss? (117M) 61. Drake - Gimme A Hug (90M) 62. Morgan Wallen - Superman (86M) 63. Cardi B - Outside (42M) Are these still in your rotation?

“No skill”

Not so fast buddy

Drake fans. If you want to include Drake, we can do the whole “top songs by rappers” thing One Dance would be the only song of his to make the list even if we take all of Post Malone’s songs off. Kendrick and Travis would be the only ones with multiple (3 and 2)

Canada Spotify’s top 10 highest streamed rap songs of all-time: Post Malone - Sunflower, Circles J. Cole - No Role Modelz Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us, Humble, All The Stars Travis Scott - SICKO MODE, goosebumps French Montana - Unforgettable Via Kworb

Cooper Flagg should run away with ROY imo. Got the whole package on both sides of the ball. Too early for him to be running PG though.

Wemby so special

The old Billboard Hot 100 recurrency rules: Top 50 after 26 weeks Top 25 after 52 weeks The new rules: Top 5 after 78 weeks Top 10 after 52 weeks Top 25 after 26 weeks Top 50 after 20 weeks (Song is taken off the Hot 100 if it falls below)

Billboard literally just made a drastic change this week to the Hot 100 recurrency rules that kicked it off. luther likely would’ve lasted until the holiday rush. Regardless, it should also be pointed out that it’s one of the longest running hip-hop/R&B songs in chart history.

Love how everyone is only posting the same 3 pictures of Drake in a Blue Jays jersey because there’s no evidence that he has ever attended a single game