Lil Nas X albums and songs sales

Lil Nas X will forever be this breakthrough artist who logged 19 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 with Old Town Road, the longest chart topper of all-time.

A hit of this magnitude is virtually impossible to follow up, but the singer has been flooding airwaves and streaming playlists anew since 2021. How well is he doing?

CSPC 2022 Lil Nas X albums and songs sales


Last sales update
August 16, 2022.

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Lil Nas X Albums Sales

Figures listed in this section reflect pure sales of long playing formats, either albums, compilations or videos. Streams are excluded.

CSPC 2022 Lil Nas X album sales breakdowns

Lil Nas X Songs Sales

Figures listed in this section reflect all metrics of songs’ sales, these are audio streams, video streams, and sales (physical singles, downloads, ringtones).

These numbers are converted into Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS), formula below.

( Spotify * 649/406 + Genie * 2.20 * 2 + AWA * 68 / 4 + Anghami + Boomplay + Audiomack ) / 1500 + ( QQ views* 50(or 5) + YouTube * 1.1 ) / 6750 + Digital sales (DL+RT) * 0.15 + Physical sales * 0.30

CSPC 2022 Lil Nas X top streaming and sales hits

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Lil Nas X CSPC Results

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

  • Studio Album: sales of the original album
  • Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
  • Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
  • Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
  • Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Artist career totals

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Numbers of Old Town Road are phenomenal. Over 2.45 billion on Spotify, 3.45 billion on YouTube, top results in Asian platforms, and 2.6 million downloads, these are terrific numbers by 2019 standards.

Yet, Lil Nas X managed to avoid the one-hit wonder tag. Panini and then Montero (Call Me by Your Name) and Industry Baby smashed, adding for 4.85 million equivalent album sales. That’s What I Want has been a hit too.

With a tiny catalog and next to no physical record released, the hip hop star records 11.23 million equivalent album sales to date.

Singles CSPC results

The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.

1. 2018 – Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) Old Town Road [7]3,660,000
2. 2021 – Lil Nas XMontero (Call Me by Your Name) [Montero]1,930,000
3. 2021 – Lil Nas XIndustry Baby [Montero]1,850,000
4. 2019 – Lil Nas XPanini [7]1,100,000

Dynamic Spotify Key Performance Indicators

Please note that numbers below are retrieved automatically, so they will evolve day by day unlike previously listed data which is valid as of the publication date of the article.

Lil Nas X

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Current followers count: 12,411,862
12,000,000 followers have been reached on 11/06/22
11,000,000 followers have been reached on 05/31/22
10,000,000 followers have been reached on 03/20/22
>> Daily breakdown

Lil Nas X is #189 among the most followed artists of all-time
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Current streams count: 11,811,637,326
11,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/28/24
14,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/27/24
11,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 01/29/24
10,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 05/02/23
>> Daily breakdown

Lil Nas X is #112 among the most streamed artists of all-time
Popularity Rating: /100

>> Visit our Top 1,000 most streamed artists ranking
>> Visit our Top 20 highest rated artists ranking

Current monthly listeners: 22,024,255 (Trend: -287,750)
Global chart position: #295
The artist top 50 cities come from 24 distinct countries
>> Global impact breakdown

Sources: IFPISpotifyYouTubeDiscogsBillboard.

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