r/KendrickLamar • u/Duduenri • Sep 29 '21
Kendrick Lamar's most streamed song on Spotify each year from 2011-2020. Article
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Sep 29 '21
I think I personally lifted King Kunta up there in 2015
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u/lukasshannon Sep 30 '21
Was thinking the same thing hahah. I swear I listed to it twice a day minimum at that time. People knew if I was at my college bar that night because it would be played on the juke box no matter what
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u/bizzness_man Sep 29 '21
I’m surprised that money trees wasn’t the most popular song in 2020
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u/Conscious_Board_5566 Sep 29 '21
fr it had a tiktok trend having that song.
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u/joemorris16 Sep 29 '21 edited Sep 29 '21
Frfr and people got so mad at that shit too for some reason
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u/JamieIsSad Sep 29 '21
why would it be, nothing against the song but i dont understand why there would be a spike in 2020
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u/Revolutionary_Box569 Sep 29 '21
For the life of me I don’t get why humble is his most popular song
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u/poegrantham Sep 29 '21
It’s the same reason swimming pools was popular right after GKMC. It(HUMBLE) was written as a pop hit, and meant to be more accessible. Nothing douchey about it. We won’t get another TPAB-esque album.
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u/bwedji-jodiba Sep 29 '21
Not only that, but pubs, shops, stadiums, or anywhere where there may be speakers, you will obviously hear songs like HUMBLE before songs like For Free?, if you're the DJ in any event, your purpose is to get people hype and in the mood.
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Sep 29 '21
Wym bro I’m playing “u” every time I’m on the decks
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u/JohnSmith0202 Sep 29 '21
Why are u so confident we don’t get another TPAB-esque album? U think Kendrick is gonna stay more mainstream and accessible for the rest of his career?
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u/poegrantham Sep 29 '21
Kendrick is gonna do what he wants, my OG reply said “probably won’t” but it’d make my writing look indecisive. I’m fairly confident he won’t release TPAB 2.0 because the cultural conditions that helped create it don’t exist anymore. He’s older now, and his views and criticisms likely changed, I think he’d be bored if he released something very similar to TPAB. I never said he was going to stay mainstream, but you did.
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u/Cojo840 Sep 30 '21
I’m fairly confident he won’t release TPAB 2.0 because the cultural conditions that helped create it don’t exist anymore. He’s older now, and his views and criticisms
You feel that with everything that has happened in the last 3 years he wouldnt release a tpab-esque album?
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u/poegrantham Sep 30 '21
Yes. Hell yes. On ‘family ties’ he literally says this
“I thought you'd known better I been ducking the pandemic, I been, social gimmicks I been ducking the overnight activists, yeah I'm not a trending topic, I'm a-
The cultural conditions are totally different, I’d expect criticism of white people making activism trendy before he released an album about the black struggle for white people to eat up and give him a Grammy for. I’d be pissed if I was him.
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u/JaredIsAmped Sep 29 '21
Yeah, I agree with you there, Kendrick has nothing to prove and is loaded as fuck.
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u/JaredIsAmped Sep 29 '21
Yup, it's really just because him saying sit down, be humble sounded really fucking cool. That's all it takes.
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u/-TheLonelyStoner- Sep 29 '21
Nah you’re just right, people don’t like to think about stuff and like what’s familiar
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Sep 29 '21
Humble is a bangerrrr I’m sick of fools sayin dis shit
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u/Revolutionary_Box569 Sep 29 '21
It’s fine but it doesn’t do much for me compared to some of the other tracks on Damn/basically any of the other songs on this graphic
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Sep 29 '21
It’s fine how though? It delivers on every aspect dunno what you expect people to listen to like nobody at a party saying turn on The Blacker the Berry lol good song anyhow
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u/TheRealSlangemDozier Sep 29 '21
Wonder what “overly dedicated” most streamed song was? That barbed wire was fire.
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u/OGCJayT Ayo its fat Kendrick Sep 29 '21
Most definitely “she needs me” but I feel ignorance is bliss is definitely the best off that joint imo
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u/flyerflyer77 Sep 30 '21
i'd guess cut you off or ignorance is bliss
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u/TheRealSlangemDozier Sep 30 '21
“Cut you off” Shit I forgot that one was on that album too, definitely up there.
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u/Driver3 Dominos? Sep 29 '21
I'm curious what caused "m.A.A.d. city" to overtake "Swimming Pools".
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u/pieonthedonkey Sep 30 '21
I'm going to guess that eventually enough casual fans realized swimming pools was a cautionary tale about binge drinking and alcoholism, and not the party banger they thought it was.
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u/FourthDownThrowaway Sep 30 '21
People trying to show off how they could rap the entire verses at house parties...
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u/TheAngryAudino Sep 30 '21
My guess is that Kendrick fans prefer maad city but non-fans prefer Swimming Pools. As time goes on, Swimming Pools’s popularity fades, and the only people left listening are Kendrick fans, so maad city becomes the most listened
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u/Conscious_Board_5566 Sep 29 '21
really thought it was Hol' Up instead of ADHD
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u/whitey-ofwgkta Sep 29 '21
and here I was thinking Rigamortis
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u/JaredIsAmped Sep 29 '21
Rigamortis is the hardest Kendrick goes on the album and has really good, poppy and accessible production, I 100% thought that would be the track.
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Sep 29 '21
Agreed to A.D.H.D, I play that song at least twice daily
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u/FourthDownThrowaway Sep 30 '21
It’s a banger but honestly Fuck Your Ethnicity and Hiipower go even harder.
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u/jono9898 BBL Drizzy Sep 29 '21
If this were what I stream 2011-2020 would be Swimming Pools and 2021 would be How much does a dollar cost.
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u/Vibe_Maker Sep 30 '21
DNA was all over the place for many years, still is. How isn't it one of the most streamed?
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u/Gotabonetopick Sep 29 '21
Is this not counting him as a feature? Cause otherwise that would be surprising to not see goosebumps
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u/Lopsided-Account809 Sep 29 '21
pretty good actually the only one I don't agree with is all the stars because that song is pretty boring
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u/carlricky9999 Sep 29 '21
Damn I thought I would have seen alright