Most Streamed Rap Songs on Spotify, Ranked

The most streamed rap song on Spotify is no longer rockstar. As of October 19, 2026, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ Can’t Hold Us leads every rap song on the platform with 3.56 billion streams, overtaking the Post Malone and 21 Savage hit that Spotify itself named No. 1 when it published its all-time rap ranking in 2023.

This page ranks the most streamed rap songs on Spotify by total plays, separates genuine rap records from the pop and dancehall crossovers that usually crowd these lists, and tracks which rappers have the deepest billion-stream catalogs. All figures come from Spotify’s public play counters as compiled by kworb.net.

Key facts

• Most streamed rap song: Can’t Hold Us, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton, 3.56 billion streams
• Runner-up: rockstar, Post Malone feat. 21 Savage, 3.47 billion
• Most streamed Eminem song: Without Me, 3.27 billion
• Rap songs past three billion: 12
• Most streamed rapper overall: Drake, 143.1 billion career streams including features

The most streamed rap songs on Spotify

The table below ranks the 20 biggest rap songs on Spotify by all-time streams. It counts the song as credited to its lead artist, so a feature such as 21 Savage on rockstar or Kali Uchis on See You Again appears under the main act.

#	Song	Artist	Year	Spotify streams
1	Can’t Hold Us	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton	2012	3,557,856,360
2	rockstar	Post Malone feat. 21 Savage	2017	3,471,510,757
3	Without Me	Eminem	2002	3,269,092,343
4	goosebumps	Travis Scott	2016	3,249,589,881
5	Lucid Dreams	Juice WRLD	2018	3,223,118,596
6	All The Stars	Kendrick Lamar and SZA	2018	3,217,564,635
7	God’s Plan	Drake	2018	3,205,301,238
8	See You Again	Tyler, The Creator feat. Kali Uchis	2017	3,159,225,607
9	Unforgettable	French Montana feat. Swae Lee	2017	3,111,121,170
10	No Role Modelz	J. Cole	2014	3,071,661,321
11	Lose Yourself	Eminem	2002	3,050,299,829
12	HUMBLE.	Kendrick Lamar	2017	3,008,012,325
13	SICKO MODE	Travis Scott	2018	2,685,774,147
14	Gangsta’s Paradise	Coolio feat. L.V.	1995	2,681,294,313
15	Mockingbird	Eminem	2004	2,625,625,265
16	XO Tour Llif3	Lil Uzi Vert	2017	2,603,838,608
17	Till I Collapse	Eminem	2002	2,602,533,111
18	SAD!	XXXTENTACION	2018	2,589,362,669
19	The Real Slim Shady	Eminem	2000	2,581,826,828
20	See You Again	Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth	2015	2,543,220,785

How Can’t Hold Us passed rockstar

rockstar spent most of the streaming era as the default answer to this question. Spotify’s own 2023 list of its 50 most streamed rap songs was led by the 2017 single, which also spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The gap closed because the two songs now stream at very different speeds. On the day these figures were taken, Can’t Hold Us drew about 1.53 million Spotify plays, close to three times the roughly 555,000 for rockstar. That is how a 2012 single from The Heist can climb past a 2017 chart-topper more than a decade after its release, and at that pace the lead will keep growing.

What counts as a rap song on this list

Two of the most streamed songs by rap acts are left out on purpose. Drake’s One Dance has 4.52 billion streams and Post Malone and Swae Lee’s Sunflower has 4.52 billion, which would put both at the top. Neither is a rap record: One Dance is a dancehall and Afrobeats-leaning pop single, and Sunflower is a pop song from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack. Spotify’s own 2023 rap ranking, led by rockstar, did not include either one.

The same rule removes Post Malone’s Circles at 3.31 billion and SZA’s Kill Bill at 2.92 billion. Songs with a rapper on lead vocals and a rap verse at the core stay in, including All The Stars, where Kendrick Lamar shares the credit with SZA.

The most streamed rappers on Spotify

Drake dominates the artist totals the way he dominates the song charts. His 143.1 billion career streams, counting lead and featured credits, are the most of any artist on Spotify, ahead of Taylor Swift at 132.3 billion. The next rapper, Kanye West, sits at 67.3 billion, with Travis Scott and Eminem close behind.

Those totals reward volume and features as much as hits. Drake has only three songs past two billion streams as a lead artist, One Dance, God’s Plan and Passionfruit, but a catalog of hundreds of tracks and guest verses that all keep streaming.

Eminem has the most two-billion-stream rap songs

Eminem has six songs above two billion Spotify streams as a lead artist, the most of any rapper: Without Me, Lose Yourself, Mockingbird, Till I Collapse, The Real Slim Shady and Love The Way You Lie with Rihanna. Five of them were released between 2000 and 2004, years before Spotify launched.

XXXTENTACION and Kendrick Lamar follow with four each. XXXTENTACION reaches the mark with SAD!, Moonlight, Jocelyn Flores and Fuck Love, while Kendrick does it with All The Stars, HUMBLE., Money Trees and Not Like Us, released in 2024 and the newest song in that group.

For more on the artists behind these numbers, see our rankings of the best Drake songs, best Travis Scott songs and best Juice WRLD songs, our breakdown of the biggest first week rap albums, and the Drake and Kendrick beef timeline that produced Not Like Us. Live all-time totals are tracked by kworb.