Kanye West earns a huge milestone on Spotify.
Over the weekend, Kanye West dominated the 2022 Billboard Music Awards as he was the most awarded male artist at the event. The rapper grabbed 6 accolades at the event, including Top Christian Artist, Top Gospel Artist, Top Gospel Song, Top Christian Song and Top Christian Album categories.
The “Donda” rapper has been one of the tops streamed artists throughout this year, thanks to his latest albums. He has been getting big numbers on his old music, and now earned a massive milestone on Spotify. Ye’s 2007 hit “Stronger” now became his first-ever song to surpass the 1 billion mark on the platform.
.@kanyewest‘s “Stronger” has now surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. It becomes his first song to reach this milestone.
— chart data (@chartdata) May 17, 2022
Kanye West’s song “Stronger” was released as the second single off his third studio album, Graduation (2007). Graduation was named Best Rap Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, marking West’s third straight album to accomplish so. At the event, the album was also nominated for Album of the Year, making West the only artist in Grammy history to be nominated for the accolade for all three of their studio albums.
On Spotify, “Stronger” is recognised as the third most popular exercise music of all time. It was chosen the best exercise music of all time by uDiscoverMusic in 2020. The song was ranked 500th on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2021. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Finest Rap Solo Performance at the 50th Grammy Awards, while Rolling Stone and Spin rated it one of the best songs of the year.
The song appeared on his third studio album “Graduation”, and it recently became his first-ever song to get RIAA Diamond Certification after selling 10 million copies in the US. “Stronger” topped the Billboard Hot 100, earning Kanye his third number-one single. The song was in the top ten in 10 countries and topped in four of them. The track was also awarded at the 50th Grammy Awards with Best Rap Solo Performance.
Check out the track below.
