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Amid the legal trouble surrounding Sean "Diddy" Combs, the hip-hop mogul's music has reportedly experienced a significant surge in streams. According to data from Chartmetric, Diddy's Spotify followers increased from 1.5 million late last year to nearly 1.8 million. Between his arrest on September 16 and October 16, Combs' Spotify listeners rose by 36%.
Currently, the hip-hop mogul has nearly 13.2 million monthly Spotify listeners. Sean Combs was arrested and indicted in September of this year on charges of s*x trafficking and racketeering, following a 14-page indictment. He remains behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center, with a trial scheduled for May 5, 2025.
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Diddy's music sees 36% jump in monthly Spotify listeners
As mentioned earlier, Sean Combs has 13.2 million monthly Spotify listeners, courtesy of a 36% jump from September 16, the day of his arrest, to the same date in October.
As per Luminate, the week before his September 16 arrest, Sean Combs' catalog had 3.2 million streams on United States streaming services. However, that figure jumped to 4.8 million in the weeks following his arrest, showing a jump of around 50 percent. The figure currently stands at 4.3 million, following a slight dip in the latest chart week.
The data sourced from Chartmetric indicated that Combs' monthly Spotify listeners remained static in September, August, and July, but increased by about 3.5 million this month. His most streamed song is the 2022 track Gotta Move On, featuring Bryson Tiller, from his fifth and most recent studio album, The Love Album: Off the Grid.
Some of his other top tracks featured on the platform included Another One of Me once again off Love Album: Off the Grid and I’ll Be Missing You, the rapper's 1997 tribute to the Notorious B.I.G. after the Hypnotize hitmaker's death. Combs' most popular album is the June 2022 compilation BAD BOY CELEBRATES DIDDY: The Artist.
Chartmetric data revealed that Diddy gained 151.9K new Spotify Monthly Listeners on September 28, 2024, marking a 100.6% increase from his usual growth. The hip-hop mogul currently holds a Chartmetric ranking of #334 worldwide, #162 in the United States, #91 in hip-hop, #46 in Pop Rap, and #10 in East Coast Rap.
According to Chartmetric, Sean Combs has a total fanbase of 25.7 million users. This included his 1.79 million Spotify followers, 3.20 million TikTok followers, 1.32 million Pandora monthly listeners, 19.84 million Instagram followers, 597.03K Deezer fans, and 888K YouTube subscribers. The platform ranked Combs' recent momentum as "Growth."
Additionally, according to The New York Times, the hashtag #FreeDiddy on TikTok received 12,000 uses. However, according to NBC News, five new civil lawsuits were filed against Sean Combs on Sunday, October 20, by attorney Tony Buzbee in the Southern District of New York.
The new lawsuits, which do not name the plaintiffs, add to the s*xual assault and r*pe allegations against the 54-year-old in incidents that allegedly took place between 2000 and 2002. Two of the plaintiffs were male, while the rest were female. One of the female plaintiffs alleged that Sean Combs r*ped her when she was only 13.
As mentioned earlier, Diddy remains behind bars after having three different appeals for bail rejected and awaiting a trial date of May 5, 2025.
