Following the news of Pop Smoke‘s murder in Los Angeles last week, his streams have increased substantially. According to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, there was a dramatic increase in streaming his music the day of his murder; which resulted in a 392 percent rise. Pop Smoke’s catalog amassed 24.7 million streams in the U.S., a significant increase from the 5 million his music received on Feb. 18, the day before his death. “Dior,” taken from his 2019 debut mixtape
Meet the Woo, garnered the most listens with 5.2 million, rising 467 percent from 909,000 listens the day prior.
Pop Smoke was shot and killed in what was initially believed to be a home invasion/robbery. However, surveillance footage from outside the Hollywood Hills home he was renting revealed it could have been a “targeted hit,” rather than a robbery. The investigation is still underway.