BILLIONS CLUB: Kendrick Lamar (3/389)

 BILLIONS CLUB:
Kendrick Lamar (3/389)

144/389 = 37%

   And just like that it is a struggle to find any artist with more than three songs in the Billions Club.  Since I've run out of high number artists, I'm going to work backwards from songs and artists who have been added recently.  Two weeks ago Kendrick Lamar got his third song in the Billions Club,  LOVE. FEAT ZACARI from Damn.  It joined Humble, which is closing in on two billion streams with a little over 1.8 billion  streams right now.   His final Billions Club song is from the Black Panther soundtrack and it features SZA who is a three song Billions Club member herself- all three songs have features or she is the feature.  Lamar also has another track from Damn. ready to cross over-  DNA.- which has 962 million streams.

   But you'd have to say that Lamar is clearly an artist with a capital A and that like a Beyonce, he is not doing it for the hits.  A good example of this is the streaming figures from his last record,  Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, which came out about a year ago, was highly rated by critics and was followed by an arena filling headlining tour- the most streamed track on that record is still at 255 million streams which is...not great. 

   Like everyone, I respect Kendrick Lamar as an artist, but I'm not a huge fan- as a criminal defense attorney and avid reader of literary fiction I have plenty of experience with the "real life" that Lamar raps about in my art intake, and I've never connected with his rap, even though it is obviously superior stuff from an artistic standpoint.