
Following Rihanna’s “Work,” which dropped the same year, “One Dance” capitalised on the peak of the dancehall craze of 2016 and has since become of the most streamed hip hop song of all time.ĭedicated to Jocelyn Amparo Flores, a 16-year-old native of The Bronx, who tragically passed away in 2017, “Jocelyn Flores” is one of XXXTentacion’s most iconic songs. Not only that, the single became a runaway global smash, topping the charts in 15 countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. “One Dance” did what “Hotline Bling” (released a year earlier) couldn’t do – it became Drake’s first number one single as a lead artist. The 100 Most Streamed Hip Hop Albums of All Timeġ.The 50 Most Streamed Rappers of All Time.Today, rap music is the biggest and most influential music genre, with some of the biggest hits over the past decade coming from or being inspired from the world of hip hop.įrom Drake’s “One Dance” to Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” and XXXTentacion’s “Sad!,” here are the top 20 most streamed hip hop songs of all time. Over the past decade, hip hop has continued to evolve and grow in popularity, becoming one of the biggest pop culture forces in the world.įrom its humble beginnings in the 1970s where MCs and DJs would play beats and kick rhymes in park jams, the culture has transformed into the dominant music genre.
