Kanye West's 'Graduation' is now the most streamed rap album daily on Spotify, despite releasing 18+ years ago 🔥🤯
It is currently receiving around 4M streams a day.
He wanted to step on the release of ‘a Gift & a Curse’ by dropping ‘Business is Business’ the same week. (He got shut down by label)
He dropped the next week. Purposely including as many features as possible (Drake 2x, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Future) with another version (kinda like a deluxe) dropping a few days later.
~26 months later a gift and a curse has over DOUBLE the Spotify Streams as the album that was supposed to “STEP ON” it. Real 🅿️ shit
Few things
Ye & Ty Dolla $ign’s VULTURES 1 didn’t just top the Billboard Independent Albums chart…
It went No. 1 on the overall Billboard 200 — as an independent album.
That’s a completely different level than what Clipse just did.
V1
Released completely independently (no major label distro).
Used FUGA, a digital distributor that services indie artists — not a major label pipeline.
No radio play, no playlist push, no label marketing engine.
Still went No. 1 overall on the Billboard 200.
Moved 148,000 equivalent units first week (Feb 2024).
That made it the first truly independent album to debut at No. 1 since 2017 (A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie via EMPIRE).
Clipse went No. 1 on the Indie chart within the indie world.
Ye went No. 1 on the Billboard 200 against every album in the country.
Huge difference in reach, scale, and cultural dominance.
Ye didn’t just succeed independently — he dominated independently.
Clipse had Roc Nation distro and heavy industry ties, and still only hit No. 1 on the indie chart.
Ye had no playlisting, zero label support, and got blackballed, yet still crushed everyone.
STOP MAKING IT SEEM LIKE YALL DID SHIT INDEPENDENT 🤡
@HipHopAllDayy young boy being here multiple times with songs that on spotify have more than 1b streams while his songs on spotify have 100-200m
crazy
i didnt know he is that popular
@RaponTENdaily @HipHopAllDayy today lil baby get gold album in one month
go to his best selling songs
go to his Spotify page and tell me how many of his top songs include kanye
then daytona , half of last album , mercy runaway …