{"id":2445936,"date":"2019-07-02T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=855011"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:36:36","slug":"rs-charts-drake-grabs-top-spot-on-first-rolling-stone-artists-500-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/rs-charts-drake-grabs-top-spot-on-first-rolling-stone-artists-500-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Charts: Drake Grabs Top Spot on First Rolling Stone Artists 500 Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drake<\/a> claimed the top spot on<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em>\u2018s inaugural Artists 500 chart<\/a>, notching a whopping 109.6 million streams during the week of June 21st through June 27th. Drake ruled the ranking thanks to the success of his first two new songs of 2019, \u201cMoney in the Grave\u201d and \u201cOmert\u00e0,\u201d which he dropped last month to celebrate the Toronto Raptors\u2019 NBA championship win. \u201cMoney in the Grave,\u201d a collaboration with Rick Ross, amassed more than 28 million streams during the tracking week, according to the analytics company Alpha Data, formerly known as BuzzAngle Music. \u201cOmert\u00e0\u201d picked up another 6.5 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> Artists 500 chart ranks the most-streamed artists of the week in the United States, taking into account audio streams across an artist\u2019s entire catalog during the tracking period. The chart does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio.<\/span> The Artists 500 is updated daily, and each week<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday. <\/span><\/p>\n

Two of 2019\u2019s most popular new artists, Billie Eilish<\/a> and Lil Nas X<\/a>, claimed the second and third spots on the Artists 500 chart. Eilish notched 81.4 million song streams thanks to her debut album,<\/span> When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/span><\/em>, and its breakout single, \u201cBad Guy.\u201d And while Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d remains omnipresent, his 70.1 million streams were bolstered further by the June 21st release of his debut EP,<\/span> 7<\/span><\/em>. \u201cPanini\u201d racked up more than 28 million streams, and \u201cRodeo,\u201d which incorporates a verse from the star Cardi B, pulled in another 22.5 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rounding out the top 5 of the Artists 500 chart are streaming mainstays Post Malone and Khalid with 58.4 million and 56.6 million song streams respectively. Meanwhile, Juice WRLD jumped to Number Seven on the chart, thanks in part to his appearance on the new BTS collaboration \u201cAll Night.\u201d In addition, YoungBoy Never Broke Again leapt to secure the Number Eight spot. He was buoyed by steadily performing tracks like \u201cSlime Belief\u201d and strong streaming growth for his single \u201cFREEDDAWG.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

For more on Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s chart initiative, read our welcome post.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Drake claimed the top spot on Rolling Stone\u2018s inaugural Artists 500 chart, notching a whopping 109.6 million streams during the week of June 21st through June 27th. Drake ruled the ranking thanks to the success of his first two new songs of 2019, \u201cMoney in the Grave\u201d and \u201cOmert\u00e0,\u201d which he dropped last month to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 20:52:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}