S*** colorism been a thing since antiquity. Read Othello

Poor Kendrick. One day

It's prevalent in just about everything. Yes.

Ed Sheeran at #3 is so crazy
Idk nobody in real life who actively listens to him

I actually don‘t agree with Twitters take on Ice Spice ONLY being succesful because she‘s lightskin tho

Ice Spice also got real fans who genuinely like her music and her image

It's reality.

Not her fault though.

Do you really think these artists are only on this list because of their lighter complexion though? Yall must understand that I'm not saying that colorism doesn't exist but I don't think it plays that big of a part in an artist's success as people make it out to be

Monthly listeners doesn’t mean most streamed

HOT TAKE: 🔥 Drake wouldn’t be as successful if he was dark skin

yes

The thing is people outside of US see The Weeknd as black and he‘s on #1.

Music and image play a much higher role in the entertainment industry rn.

Spice Cadets

its more like whatever the music execs want to push out its all planned

ice spice music is trash and anyone listening to that s*** unironically is mentally redacted

J Cole himself admitted he benefits from being light skinned a few years ago.

It affects everything. The music business is no exception

you can tell the white folks ITT that wanna try so hard to ignore what's obviously there.

A huge part of the reason Drake music hit is because it’s a light skin nigga doin it

‘course it does, but to distill an artist’s success to mostly their skin color (which is what i see sometimes with Ice Spice, Beyonce) is oftentimes bad faith motivated and/or agenda driven

literally had some white redditor on here saying Beyoncé’s success was due to her being light skinned

ofc. and a lot of these artists cosplay as white as soon as they get out the country. less so since 2020 when black became a lil trendy for a hot sec.

Hol up im gonna regress it for you

Absolutely. They made Action Bronson quit saying the N word so he had to pivot to the cooking channel.