Eminem is the only rapper with three solo music videos with over 1 billion views on YouTube. How close Drake and Nicki are to him?
It has been stated that Eminem, Drake and Nicki Minaj are the only rappers to have two or more solo music videos with over 900 million views on YouTube.
The keyword in this particular ranking is “solo”. Both Drake and Nicki have a set of very popular videos filmed for their joints with other stars, videos with a view count run up by the collective effort of two or more fandoms. These videos are ranked higher than any Drake or Nicki’s solo music video.
Eminem’s most viewed music video is also a collaboration, the unforgettable joint with Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie”. However, its success looks like an outlier on the list of his features, not a trend. All other joints with big names like Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and even Rihanna are rated rather modestly by Em’s standards.
That’s Eminem’s solo music, where his dominance over the genre is the most prominent, and solo music videos views count shows just that. To include three artists in this ranking, authors even had to move the cut-off point down to 900 million from 1 billion. Yet even with that, the picture is clear. While technically, this calculation places Eminem, Drake and Nicki Minaj in the same category, you can spot the difference.
Here is the list of all their solo music videos with over 900 million views on YouTube:
1. Eminem — “Not Afraid” 1.5 billion views
2. Eminem — “Rap God” 1.2 billion views
3. Eminem — “Without Me” 1.2 billion views
1. Drake — “Hotline Bling” 1.7 billion views
2. Drake — “God’s Plan” 1.3 billion views
1. Nicki Minaj — “Anaconda” 1 billion views
2. Nicki Minaj — “Super Bass” 900 million views
