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?

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.

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

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Lil Nas X CSPC Results

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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 X - Montero (Call Me by Your Name) [Montero] - 1,930,000
3. 2021 - Lil Nas X - Industry Baby [Montero] - 1,850,000
4. 2019 - Lil Nas X - Panini [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.

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Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Discogs, Billboard.

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