Common “The People” streaming numbers?

[Ziggiy]

It's a classic song, but 600 million streams, though? It didn’t even make the Hot 100 when it originally dropped in 2007.

For reference, That’s The Way Love Goes by Janet was a #1 smash hit in 1993 (topped the Hot 100 for 8 weeks) and has 125 million streams on Spotify.

Something else is at play here. It must of went viral on TikTok or something.

I’m just providing context for how it COULD be that popular.


I don’t know either way but it seems here on the Coli when black men accomplish something amazing the first thing to do is question the authenticity of said accomplishment. I’d rather look at the means to support than the means to tear down

 

[Low End Derrick]

I’m just providing context for how it COULD be that popular.


I don’t know either way but it seems here on the Coli when black men accomplish something amazing the first thing to do is question the authenticity of said accomplishment. I’d rather look at the means to support than the means to tear down

You'd have an argument if it was Biggie, or Pac, or Jay, or Ye pushing 600 million streams on spotify.

But Common? Nah, it's some fukkeryy afoot.

 

[Ziggiy]

You'd have an argument if it was Biggie, or Pac, or Jay, or Ye pushing 600 million streams on spotify.

Cut Common? Nah, it's some fukkeryy afoot.

Has Common EVER been involved or implicated in ANY type of fukkery? I’ve literally never heard of the man being involved in anything fugazi or any scams whatsoever

Dude is as positive and squeaky clean as it gets.

 

[JoelB]

Look at the icon. It's on a bunch of playlists.

LOOK AT THE ALBUM COVER...



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How can you find the other playlists a song is featured on?

Common is still the most played record on this playlist....by a considerable margin.

Its the Dwele stimulus package

 

[Don Homer]

Yeah, it’s stream trolling. Has to be

OP made this thread on aug 5 and it had 611M

as I type this today Aug 17, this song has 619M

So it got 8 million more plays in 12 days, when Common ONLY gets 2.2 monthly listeners


Nah, ain’t no fukking way

 

[jilla82]

the computers the record label use to farm plays must have malfunctioned

 

[ManBearPig]

Yall do me a favor and look With That by young thug.

Over 200 million plays

 

[DapMeUp!]

Classic track...

Thread made me spin the kiss and ghost version as well

 

[Zero]

So a Black man can't do that?

 

[Harry B]

I’m just providing context for how it COULD be that popular.


I don’t know either way but it seems here on the Coli when black men accomplish something amazing the first thing to do is question the authenticity of said accomplishment. I’d rather look at the means to support than the means to tear down

Nah, thats not applicable here cause it’s not doing numbers on any other platform. This is Spotify specific.

 

[dubsmith_nz]

Yeah I noticed that the other day as well, it's wild how the numbers just keep increasing. Surely streams of that level would have it charting or something?

 

[detroit devil 3]

Yall do me a favor and look With That by young thug.

Over 200 million plays

Damn, only 200M's on spotify? I figured it would be more tbh

 

[detroit devil 3]

It's possible everyone's looking it up and giving it listens by accident, perhaps there's another track by a completely or relatively unknown artist called "People" that recently blew up and everyone thinks its commons version because it's one of the only songs that pop up when you type the song "people" in spotify

edit: i was right



just my theory

 

[Low End Derrick]

So a Black man can't do that?

A Black man could.

Common can't. (Without some chicanery afoot.)

 

[JoelB]

Yeah, it’s stream trolling. Has to be

OP made this thread on aug 5 and it had 611M

as I type this today Aug 17, this song has 619M

So it got 8 million more plays in 12 days, when Common ONLY gets 2.2 monthly listeners


Nah, ain’t no fukking way

hypothetically speaking, how does one acquire a Stream Farm

Spoiler

I wanna give Nas & Mach Hommy 600m streams too ....you think Nap cousins could give me a discount