XXXTentacion, Juice WRLD Dominate Spotify’s Top Albums Chart

Rap Caviar has launched an inventory of essentially the most streamed hip-hop albums on Spotify, with the highest of the checklist dominated by XXXTentacion, Juice WRLD, and Pop Smoke — all of whom died tragically lately earlier than the age of twenty-two.

Rap Caviar’s list of the 50 Most Streamed Hip-Hop Albums on Spotify is stuffed with albums from artists you may anticipate to see — Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, and different outstanding figures within the modern hip-hop scene. However most of the albums within the checklist’s Prime 10, together with the No. 1 album, are by XXXTentacion, Juice WRLD, or Pop Smoke, all of whom died tragically lately earlier than the age of twenty-two.

Two of XXXTentacion’s albums — 17 (2017) and ? (2018) — made the Prime 10, along with his 2018 launch topping the checklist, whereas Juice WRLD’s 2018 debut album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, and 2020 posthumous album Legends By no means Die each reached the Prime 10. Pop Smoke’s 2020 posthumous album Shoot for the Stars Purpose for the Moon additionally made the Prime 10.

In the meantime, Drake has three albums within the Prime 10 and eight within the Prime 50 — 16% of the checklist. Eminem has six albums within the Prime 50, Kendrick Lamar has three albums within the Prime 25, and Kanye West has three within the Prime 50.

Rap Caviar’s 50 Most Streamed Hip-Hop Albums on Spotify

1. XXXTentacion — ?
2. Drake — Scorpion
3. Drake — Views
4. Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance
5. Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
6. XXXTentacion — 17
7. Pop Smoke — Shoot For the Stars Purpose For the Moon
8. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
9. Drake — Extra Life
10. Juice WRLD — Legends By no means Die
11. Eminem — The Eminem Present
12. Lil Uzi Vert — Luv is Rage 2
13. Juice WRLD — Dying Race For Love
14. J. Cole — 2014 Forest Hills Drive
15. Travis Scott — Birds within the Entice Sing McKnight
16. Cardi B — Invasion of Privateness
17. Kendrick Lamar — good child, m.A.A.d metropolis
18. Kanye West — The Lifetime of Pablo
19. Drake — Take Care
20. Kanye West — Commencement
21. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — The Heist
22. Drake — Licensed Lover Boy
23. Kendrick Lamar — Black Panther The Album Music From And Impressed By
24. Eminem — Restoration
25. Dr. Dre — 2001
26. Drake — Nothing Was The Identical
27. 50 Cent — Get Wealthy or Die Tryin’
28. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP – Tour Version
29. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP2
30. Eminem — Music To Be Murdered By – Facet B (Deluxe Version)
31. Lil Uzi Vert — Everlasting Atake (Deluxe) – LUV vs the World 2
32. Migos — Tradition II
33. Roddy Ricch — Please Excuse Me for Being Delinquent
34. Kanye West — My Stunning Darkish Twisted Fantasy
35. Drake — If You’re Studying This It’s Too Late
36. Eminem — Kamikaze
37. Pop Smoke — Meet the Woo 2
38. Lil Tecca — We Love You Tecca
39. Nicki Minaj — The Pinkprint
40. 6ix9ine — DUMMY BOY
41. A Boogie Wit da Hoodie — Hoodie SZN
42. Polo G — THE GOAT
43. Migos — Tradition
44. Lil Child — My Flip
45. Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
46. 2Pac — All Eyez On Me
47. DaBaby — BLAME IT ON BABY
48. Drake — Darkish Lane Demo Tapes
49. DJ Khaled — Grateful
50. Tyga — Legendary (Deluxe Version)

Hip-hop fans have famous that the style has not scored a No. 1 track or album this yr to this point — a primary since 1993. However Drake, Travis Scott, and Lil Uzi Vert have upcoming releases which can skew the panorama again within the style’s favor. But the prevalence on Spotify’s checklist of stars snuffed out of their prime highlights how totally different the hip-hop panorama may look if artists like Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, and XXXTentacion had been nonetheless alive and releasing new music.