Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow‘s 2021 single “Business Child” is now essentially the most streamed track of the 2020s – which suggests they’ve formally dethroned Drake and Future‘s 2020 smash “Life Is Good.”
Chart Data revealed the information in a tweet on Wednesday (February 15), surprisingly arriving simply after the video for “Life Is Good” eclipsed two billion views on YouTube – turning into solely the third Hip Hop monitor to take action.
The What A Time To Be Alive collaborators observe within the footsteps of Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Approach You Lie” and Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Once more” within the two-billion membership.
This isn’t the primary time Jack Harlow has knocked Drake and Future out of a spot. In Might, his Fergie-sampling “First Class” single reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 from the pair, who beforehand held it with their “WAIT FOR U” collaboration with Tems.
Harlow can’t take all of the spots, although. Drake grew to become the undisputed high streaming artist in any style for 2022 with 6.7 billion streams for the yr, whereas NBA YoungBoy sat behind him with 5.4 billion. They beat out music titans corresponding to Taylor Swift, Dangerous Bunny and The Weeknd to spherical out the Prime 5.
In the meantime, Future grew to become the reigning champ of track streams on Apple Music for 2022. The Atlanta star secured his first Billboard Scorching 100 No. 1 as a lead artist earlier within the yr due to the success of his aforementioned “WAIT FOR U” single with Drake and Tems, and it then grew to become Apple Music’s most streamed track of the yr.
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The track proved an enormous success for him, however it really virtually went to Kanye West.
Throughout a June interview with B Excessive Atl, “WAIT FOR U” co-producer ATL Jacob revealed Ye additionally took a liking to the beat and recorded to it, however in the end failed to show it right into a completed track.
“What’s loopy is earlier than ‘WAIT FOR U’ got here out, that was one in every of [Kanye’s] favourite songs,” Jacob mentioned. “He was like, ‘Man, this file loopy!’ So we was making an attempt some stuff on it however you already know, we simply ain’t get to the purpose the place we really completed ‘WAIT FOR U.’”
