BILLIONS CLUB: XXXtentacion (6/375)

BILLIONS CLUB

XXXtentacion  (6/375)

67/375 =  16%

  This was actually a big week for the BILLIONS CLUB with three cuts making the list- Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen, Losing My Religion by REM and an Eminem song.   All three represent the second main theme of the BILLIONS CLUB: catalog tracks that have endured and prospered in the streaming era. Call Me Maybe and Losing My Religion fit that bill.

   Meanwhile, XXXtentacion, today's artist, represents the flip of that and the main theme in the BILLIONS CLUB: Streaming era artists who either emerged just before streaming took off or came up during the streaming era.  XXXtentacion, of course, was murdered in 2018.  A whopping four songs from his 2018 album ? are on the list and one of those is closing in on two billion streams.

  Also, for the first time, I found two billion stream songs in an artist's catalog that haven't yet been included on the BILLIONS CLUB- suggesting that there are potentially many more billion stream songs than are on the list.   As far as personal experience with XXXtentacion goes, I don't have any beyond hearing that he is essentially the Kurt Cobain of his generation.  Not something I would care to argue about. 

   Perhaps it is the content of those two unplaylisted tracks that prevents them from being included on the Spotify Billions Club playlist.