Metro Boomin has reached a major milestone, surpassing 50 Cent on Spotify’s list of most streamed rap albums ever.
According to an update shared by Chart Masters on Sunday (March 3), the St. Louis producer’s 2022 album Heroes & Villains has surpassed the Queens rapper’s iconic 2003 debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
Metro’s star-studded affair has now accrued 4,379,300,317 streams, while 50’s classic trails with 4,367,041,925 streams.
Next to pass on the list for the “Too Many Nights” artist? Dr. Dre’s seminal 1999 album, 2001, which is closing in on 4.4 billion streams with 4,399,463,268 total tallies.
Metro has blown away from pretty serious competition. Both Drake and Kanye West are looking up at Heroes & Villains, with Drizzy’s Nothing Was the Same at 35 and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at number 36.
Albums above Metro are highlighted by Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., three Drake albums (Scorpion, Views, and More Life), two Kanye albums (Graduation and The Life of Pablo), and Travis Scott’s Astroworld, among others.
Metro isn’t the only one getting rich off his massive quantity of streams. Last month, Erick Sermon revealed he makes almost $750,000 per year from Metro Boomin, 21 Savage and The Weeknd’s smash hit “Creepin.’”
Metro’s song famously samples Mario’s 2004 hit “I Don’t Wanna Know” which itself prominently samples EPMD‘s “You’re a Customer,” meaning Sermon receives significant royalties.
Sermon, who owns his own publishing, explained in an interview with Bootleg Kev how he rakes in publishing money from the two tracks.
“The Weeknd is one of the most streamed artists in the world. So him and Metro Boomin did ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ which is ‘You’re a Customer,’” he said. “I only own 4 percent of that record [Creepin’]. Every four months, guess how much it brings in… $240,000” — which amounts to $720,000 per year.
Sermon is credited as a writer on both “Creepin’” and “I Don’t Wanna Know” because of the drum sample taken from “You’re a Customer.”
Despite his success, Metro has remained tapped in to current events and even chimed in last month when news broke that a defense attorney in the YSL RICO trial was arrested in the courtroom on gang-related charges.
After the news began making waves on the internet, the Grammy Award-winning producer took to X (formerly) Twitter to set the record straight regarding the narratives surrounding the situation.
“that lady not even thug lawyer y’all gotta stop spreading misinformation,” he wrote, before adding in a follow-up post: “#FreeJeff #FreeYak.”
The person in question, Nicole Fegan, was in fact representing YSL member Tenquarius Mender and was even successful in getting his case severed from the other defendants’ pending cases.
However, she was arrested and charged with participating in criminal gang activity and criminal solicitation to commit the offense of tampering with evidence, though the charges were not directly related to the YSL RICO trial.
