Juice WRLD and Pop Smoke are two influential Hip-Hop artists who passed away earlier this year, but in spite of their death, their first posthumously albums are indeed doing numbers on the music charts.
What We Know:
- Juice WRLD’s album titled Legends Never Die crashed both major music streaming services Spotify and Apple Music on the night of its release. Legends Never Die recorded over 73 million streams on Spotify last Friday, which is the most debut streams by anybody in 2020.
Juice WRLD’s Spotify page has crashed
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- Juice WRLD, who passed away last December from a seizure after being rushed from Chicago Midway Airport, had 3 songs make the Billboard top 100 top 10 list. One of the three songs, “Lucid Dreams”, which racked in over a billion digital steams, is now a certified 6x platinum track.
- His previous album, Death Race For Love, peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200, and stayed on the charts for 70 consecutive weeks.
- Shoot For The Stars And Aim For The Moon, is Pop Smoke’s highly anticipated album that is currently top of this week’s Billboard Artist 100 and Billboard 200.
Most streamed artists on global Spotify (July 15)
#1 Juice WRLD 49.8m
#2 @sanbenito 22m
#3 @BTS_twt 18.4m
#4 @Drake 18.2m
#5 @JBALVIN 17.5m
#6 Pop Smoke 17m
#7 @Anuel_2bleA 16.4m
#8 @trvisXX 16.3m
#9 @theweeknd 15.7m
#10 @ArianaGrande 14.6m— chart data (@chartdata) July 17, 2020
- Pop Smoke was fatally shot and killed back in February of 2020 after a home invasion in Hollywood Hills, California. Ironically, his most recent album was released the same week four people were charged in the murder of his death.
- Currently, Pop Smoke’s team is enjoying their run at the number one spot of Billboard’s Artist 100 chart. Pop Smoke’s latest album also has a staggering 19 songs on Billboard’s Top 100 charts.
This year has been devastating as Hip-Hop has lost two very young rappers not even at the peak of their careers. Although, they may be gone both rappers have a large catalog of songs that should cement their legacy, and prove even in death that Legends Never Die.
