XXXTentacion has RIAA-certified sales of 61 million units in the US and BPI-certified sales of over 7 million units in the UK, bringing his total to 68 million certified records sold in the two countries. Since his death, he has won an American Music Award and a BET Hip Hop Award and received 11 Billboard Music Award nominations.37 Two posthumous albums were released, Skins (2018) and Bad Vibes Forever (2019); the former became his second number-one album on the Billboard 200, while the latter entered the top 5. XXXTentacion has RIAA-certified sales of 38 million units in the US and BPI-certified sales of over 7 million units in the UK.394395 He is also one of the Top-20 all-time best selling artists in terms of digital singles, with a total of 49 million RIAA-certified digital sales396 as of October 2020. In August 2021, XXXTentacion’s single, “Sad!”, was certified Diamond in the US. Onfroy released his debut commercial solo mixtape, Revenge, on May 16, 2017.
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“Moonlight” and “Hope” also charted after his death, peaking at number 13 and 70, respectively. On January 23, 2022, on what would have been XXXTentacion’s 24th birthday, his estate announced that they would be releasing his 2014 xxxcion SoundCloud track, “Vice City”, to all streaming services on January 28, 2022. Considered a fan-favorite, the song was his first release on SoundCloud. The release is the first by his estate in efforts to make all his unofficial releases available on main streaming platforms.166 It was also confirmed that a documentary about the rapper, titled Look at Me, was in the works.166 It was released on Hulu on May 26, 2022. The music streaming service Spotify announced on May 10, 2018, that it was going to stop promoting or recommending music by Onfroy, Tay-K, and R. Spotify stated, “We don’t censor content because of an artist’s or creator’s behavior, but we want our editorial decisions—what we choose to program—to reflect our values”.223 Onfroy and his team responded criticizing the decision, pointing out that artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, Dr. Dre, David Bowie, and Michael Jackson were not being censored despite more severe allegations being levied against them than the ones brought against Onfroy.224 The decision to remove Onfroy’s music from curated playlists was later reversed after Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith threatened to remove his label’s music from the service.225226 Although Tiffith did the action, Onfroy thanked Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg as a whole.
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The rapper, 20, real name Jahseh Onfroy, was shot and killed during a Florida robbery in 2018.
- “Moonlight” and “Hope” also charted after his death, peaking at number 13 and 70, respectively.
- On June 1, 2020, his song “Riot” was re-released onto streaming services to spread awareness to the protests following the murder of George Floyd.
- The three men who killed the Florida rapper stood impassively as they were placed in handcuffs.
- As of February 2024, XXXTentacion’s last Instagram post before his death holds the record of the 11th most-liked Instagram post of all-time with 32.5 million likes.
- The rapper, 20, real name Jahseh Onfroy, was shot and killed during a Florida robbery in 2018.
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The mixtape consists of eight previously released songs.98 The collaborative mixtape, Members Only, Vol. On June 1, 2020, his song “Riot” was re-released onto streaming services to spread awareness to the protests following the murder of George Floyd. As of February 2024, XXXTentacion’s last Instagram post before his death holds the record of the 11th most-liked Instagram post of all-time with 32.5 million likes. In 2023, singles such as “Very Rare Forever Freestyle”, “I’m Not Human” and “Let’s Pretend We’re Numb” were released onto streaming and digital download, as well as a re-release of Onfroy’s 2016 EP ItWasntEnough and a remaster and remix of “Emoji” in collaboration with Ronny J. The three men who killed the Florida rapper stood impassively as they were placed in handcuffs.