Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow‘s 2021 single “Industry Baby” is now the most streamed song of the 2020s – which means, one can easily say that: they’ve officially dethroned Drake and Future‘s 2020 smash “Life Is Good.”
Chart Data revealed the news in a tweet, coincidentally arriving just after the video for “Life Is Good” crossed two billion views on YouTube — becoming just the third Hip Hop single to do so.
The What A Time To Be Alive collaborators follow in the footsteps of Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” and Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” in the two-billion club.
This isn’t the first time Jack Harlow has bumped Drake and Future out of a place. In May, his Fergie-sampling “First Class” track recovered the No. 1 slot on the Billboard Hot 100 from the two, who had held it with their “WAIT 4 U” duet with Tems.
Harlow can’t take all the places, however.
Drake became the unquestioned #1 streaming artist in any genre for 2022 with 6.7 billion streams for the year, while NBA YoungBoy sat behind him with 5.4 billion. They beat aside music heavyweights such as Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and The Weeknd to round out the Top 5.
Meanwhile, Future became the reigning champ of song streams on Apple Music for 2022. The Atlanta sensation scored his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 as a solo artist earlier in the year courtesy of the popularity of his aforementioned “WAIT 4 U” hit with Drake and Tems, and it subsequently became Apple Music’s most streamed song of the year.
The song was a great hit for him, but it nearly went to Kanye West.
During a June interview with B High Atl, “WAIT FOR U” co-producer ATL Jacob stated Ye also took a liking to the rhythm and recorded to it, but eventually failed to make it into a polished song.
What’s weird is before ‘WAIT FOR U’ came out, it was one of [Kanye’s] favourite songs,” Jacob remarked. “He was like, ‘Man, this record crazy!’ So we were trying some things on it but you know, we just ain’t got to the point where we completed ‘WAIT FOR U.’”
