Drake has narrowly crushed Kendrick Lamar to extra month-to-month listeners on Spotify amid their ongoing feud.
Drake has overtaken Kendrick Lamar as Spotify’s high rapper by month-to-month listeners
The One Dance hitmaker is now essentially the most listened to rap star on the streaming platform, with a distinction of 80.65 million and 80.62 million between him and arch-nemesis Ok Dot.
An X publish by Chart Information famous: “Drake is now the rapper with essentially the most month-to-month listeners on Spotify at present.
“He surpasses Kendrick Lamar.”
The surge in Drake’s streams got here as he headlined three nights at Wi-fi Competition in London on the weekend.
Lamar, in the meantime, is at present on his joint Grand Nationwide Tour with SZA.
Drake – who just lately turned the primary artist to ever cross 110 billion streams on Spotify – and Lamar’s disagreement escalated final yr, with the latter’s shock verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s monitor Like That. Then adopted Not Like Us, on which he manufacturers Drake a “licensed pedophile (sic)”, an allegation he has denied.
Drake additionally fired again on the tracks Push Ups and The Coronary heart Half 6, the latter of which was a direct response to Not Like Us.
He beforehand promised “spherical two” in his beef with Lamar, who took their feud all the way in which to the Tremendous Bowl halftime present in February.
Ok Dot subtly took purpose at his rival and carried out a censored model of his record-breaking Drake diss monitor (Not Like Us) on the sporting spectacle and introduced out SZA as a particular visitor to carry out their hits All of the Lights and Luther.
When he introduced his Tremendous Bowl gig, Lamar reacted to his assertion: “You recognize there’s just one alternative to win a championship. No spherical twos.”
Drake additionally took authorized motion towards their report label Common Music Group (UMG) for defamation and allegedly utilizing bots and pay-to-play schemes to spice up Not Like Us.
He additionally accused Spotify of artificially inflating streams of the monitor, however later withdrew his authorized petition towards the UMG and Spotify.
Drake had solely reached the stage of a pre-action submitting, earlier than deciding to withdraw.