Drake Narrowly Beats NBA YoungBoy For Most Streamed Artist Of 2022 So Far

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Drizzy and YB are followed by names like Taylor Swift, Juice WRLD, The Weeknd, and Kanye West.

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.

Drake Narrowly Beats NBA YoungBoy For Most Streamed Artist Of 2022 So Far
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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).

Drake Narrowly Beats NBA YoungBoy For Most Streamed Artist Of 2022 So Far
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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.


In other news, DJ Akademiks recently revealed that the Sincerely Kentrell hitmaker allegedly turned down $25M from Atlantic Records to resign with them, claiming that he plans to go independent – read more about that here, and let us know if you're surprised by 2022's streaming top 10 so far in the comments below.

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.
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