Maybe Jay Z has the right idea with this Tidal venture after-all.

Nielsen has revealed their 2014 music report that shows hip-hop as the most streamed genre of music.

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Of course, thanks to Kendrick Lamar, Drake and more … Above gospel music, rock and even popular music, hip-hop accounted for 28.5% of all streams last year. In a cool second place was Rock, which accounted for 24.7% of all streams.

Buzzfeed also reports that for quarter one in 2015, the percentage of hip hop streams was 25%, still beating out Rock by 2%, but falling slightly. Included in this is Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which if you’ll remember, broke a few Spotify records earlier this year.

While I do plenty – and I do mean plenty – of streaming, I still have that old-fashioned soul. There is nothing like a shiny disc to pop into my CD player. I’ll be the one to help with album sales in the physical copy form. GEEK, I know.

Check out the gallery for a quick pic of the numbers.

SOURCE: HNHH