50 Cent Passes 21 Billion Spotify Streams, and “Many Men” Is on Pace for a Billion by the End of October

A career total that keeps climbing, a billion-club count that depends on how you read a credit, and a Get Rich or Die Tryin' deep cut about to join the club.

50 Cent is past 21 billion Spotify streams. Kworb's September 24 update had him at 21,019,058,824 across all credits, adding 9,855,190 a day. Working back from that rate, the 21 billion mark first showed up in the September 23 update, which covers streams from Tuesday, September 22. Nobody announced it. Career totals rarely get announced. They just roll over.

The more visible milestone came earlier in the month. "Just A Lil Bit," the 2005 single from The Massacre, crossed 1 billion around September 12, and uDiscover Music reported it on September 14. By September 24 it was at 1,007,485,842, adding 616,072 a day. That makes it 50's second-fastest song on the platform, behind only "In Da Club."

Fifth or sixth? It depends on the credit

uDiscover called "Just A Lil Bit" his sixth song in the Billions Club, listing "In Da Club," "Candy Shop," "P.I.M.P.," "Hate It Or Love It" and "21 Questions" before it. The count holds up if you include every song 50 appears on. But "Hate It Or Love It" is The Game's single from The Documentary with 50 on the hook and a verse, and Spotify lists The Game first. Kworb marks it with an asterisk on 50's page, meaning a featured credit.

So both numbers are true, as long as you say which one you mean. As lead artist, "Just A Lil Bit" is 50's fifth billion-stream song. Counting "Hate It Or Love It," it is his sixth billion-stream appearance. The distinction matters for the next one: "Many Men" would be his sixth as lead and seventh overall. (The Game and 50's relationship after that record is its own saga; we covered the Game's recent take on the 50 and Eminem disses.)

Here is the full list, as of Kworb's September 24 update:

Song	Album	Total streams	Daily
In Da Club	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)	2,237,709,466	848,069
Candy Shop	The Massacre (2005)	1,376,128,488	525,218
Hate It Or Love It*	The Game, The Documentary (2005)	1,209,111,277	589,619
P.I.M.P.	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)	1,178,046,613	538,263
21 Questions	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)	1,118,636,561	604,821
Just A Lil Bit	The Massacre (2005)	1,007,485,842	616,072
Many Men (Wish Death)	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)	980,641,253	569,558

*Featured credit. Many Men is shown in italics because it has not crossed yet.

Many Men: the projected date

"Many Men (Wish Death)" needed 19.36 million more streams on September 24 and was adding 569,558 a day. A straight line puts its billion in Kworb's October 28 update. That is a projection, not a result, and daily rates move, so we would not bet on the exact day. Late October is the right window.

The detail worth noticing is the album. Once "Many Men" crosses, four of 50's six lead billion-streamers will come from Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Those four songs alone, "In Da Club," "P.I.M.P.," "21 Questions" and "Many Men," total 5.52 billion streams. That is about 26% of his entire 21 billion and roughly 38% of the 14.54 billion he has as a lead artist. One 2003 album is still carrying about a quarter of a career that has since run through The Massacre, Curtis, a television empire and an Emmy. The same record gave us "Back Down," whose original version surfaced last month with a much longer hit list.

After "Many Men," nothing is close. His next-biggest lead songs are "If I Can't" (514.6 million, 183,147 a day), "Ayo Technology" (512.0 million, 483,540 a day) and "Baby By Me" (507.5 million, 346,302 a day). "Ayo Technology" is the fastest of the three, and even it projects to around mid-2029. On the nearer calendar, "P.I.M.P." should pass 1.2 billion around November 4.

The Eminem records, by the numbers

None of 50's Eminem collaborations is near a billion, but together they add up to real weight. Kworb figures as of September 24, credited as they appear on Spotify:

Song	Lead credit	Total streams	Daily
Crack A Bottle	Eminem, with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent	376,390,439	99,229
Patiently Waiting	50 Cent, feat. Eminem	311,019,747	109,127
Remember The Name	Ed Sheeran, feat. Eminem and 50 Cent	289,580,118	43,176
You Don't Know	Eminem, with 50 Cent, Cashis and Lloyd Banks	286,652,861	79,312
Never Enough	Eminem, feat. 50 Cent and Nate Dogg	240,181,960	92,146
Don't Push Me	50 Cent, with Lloyd Banks and Eminem	78,507,038	32,975
Psycho	50 Cent, feat. Eminem	27,018,793	16,661
GATman And Robbin	50 Cent, feat. Eminem	26,058,382	11,277

That is about 1.64 billion streams across eight songs. "Crack A Bottle," the Relapse single, is still the biggest. "Patiently Waiting," the Get Rich or Die Tryin' track with an Eminem verse, is now the faster of the two by about 10,000 a day. They are not done collaborating either: 50 has confirmed Eminem is on the Street Fighter theme alongside an unreleased Tupac verse, which would be their first new record together in years.

Where 21 billion ranks

On Kworb's artist totals, 50 Cent is 102nd. He is right on the heels of Diplo (21.08 billion) and Snoop Dogg (21.13 billion), and he is adding streams faster than both. On current rates he passes Diplo around October 8 and Snoop in early November. Don Toliver, at 15.7 million a day, will probably pass him in late October, so the rank itself will stay near 100 for a while.

For context on pace, Eminem does about 18.6 million a day, so 50 runs at roughly half his old boss's speed. For an artist who has not released a studio album since 2014, half of Eminem is a remarkable place to be. And the song driving his next milestone is not a single chasing a playlist. It is track four on Get Rich or Die Tryin', a record about surviving nine bullets, gaining more than half a million plays a day 23 years later.