The increase in DMX's streams began on April 3, when news broke that the 50-year-old rapper had suffered an alleged overdose that resulted in a heart attack. Together, all the fan engagement tallies to a three-figure increase in daily listens for the MC. Other chart-topping hits from the legendary rapper saw exponential streaming growth as well. “Slippin’” and “Party Up (In Here)” also garnered 5.52 and 5.20 million streams, respectively. The set earned 12,000 equivalent album units for the week (up 224%), with the bulk of that sum driven by streaming activity for the album’s songs.On April 9 and 10, X's "Ruff Ryder's Anthem" accumulated 9.59 million daily streams and is up by 973 percent while “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” received 5.79 million and went up by 900 percent, as stated by MRC. On the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated April 17, reflecting sales and streaming data in the week ending April 8), DMX’s compilation The Best Of re-enters the chart at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart, making him the first artist to see his first five efforts all begin directly in the top slot. His first five albums – It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Was X (2000), The Great Depression (2001) and Grand Champ (2003) – all debuted at No. In terms of music sales, DMX’s collected songs and albums sold 101,000 copies on April 9-11 – up 1,036% compared to the 9,000 they sold on April 6-8.During DMX’s lifetime, he notched 31 hits on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and 15 entries on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. Between April 3 and April 8, they rose to between 3 and 4 million per day. In the days before April 2, his songs were streamed between 700,000 and 1 million times a day. Streams of DMX’s music had increased leading up to his passing, following his hospitalization on April 2.
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