We need to have a conversation about streaming numbers for Hov's classics

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his music been back on all platforms since like 2018/19, and these are weekly #’s. Not sure how the tidal move would be affecting today, especially with his peers getting more streams. That would mean people interested in artists from that era are on streaming
well his peers were always more popular

JayZ was never the highest selling rapper or most popular rapper
 

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The younger generation doesn't respect him for whatever reason

Excluding The Blueprint and The Black Album a lot of his post Reasonable Doubt work hasn't aged well at all

He obviously a top tier lyricist but the production on a lot of his albums is :scust:
 
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The problem here is that you might be slightly illiterate.

From the source where you got your data from RD for example is listed multiple times because it was re-issued a couple of times with songs added or a remix included etc.

So your numbers are wrong off rip.

RD should be 240K
BP is missing a whole 300K daily off the delux version :wtf:

Nope. I already checked the math and verified it.
If you stream Hard Knock Life it will show up as a stream for Vol.2 and Greatest Hits.

The BP Deluxe version you mentioned includes BP2.

Blueprint daily streams was 168,643, BP2 was 131,367. Add them up, what you got?

300,010, exactly what they got listed for BP Deluxe daily streams.

Pac got the best selling Greatest Hits in hip hop history yet AEOM ain't getting cannibalized at all in these numbers.

Hov stans acting like he the only artist on this list with a Greatest Hits :dahell:
 

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There's no nah about it. Jay's greatest hits is right below WTT for daily streams and then Blueprint 3 soon after. Those have the daily streams and more overall streams for him and those are the projects ppl ARE listening to not his older catalog as much.

If you stream Run This Town on Spotify, whether you stream it from Greatest Hits or BP3, it will show up under the daily figures for both albums. It's just how the site work :yeshrug: otherwise it would be useless to look at it by album

If you add up the totals by album you screenshotted Jay would have about 22 billion streams just off his own albums.

But you look at his artist page, it's 17,453,730,844 total streams including all his features. And 1,505,995,278 of that, or 9%, come from one guest appearance on a Rihanna track.

 
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Only real classic in there is RD, you can count Blueprint but it's not in the same tier as RD and other similar classics.
 
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