GoldLink is an American rapper from the Washington, DC area, known for his slick, dance-inflected take on hip-hop. His commercial breakthrough came with "Crew", released in 2017, a smooth, late-night collaboration with Brent Faiyaz and Shy Glizzy that became a genuine hit, earned a Grammy nomination, and crossed him over to a much wider audience.
He is a critically respected artist with a real catalogue and a distinctive sound, which makes his appearance here a borderline one. But on streaming, that one song has pulled clearly ahead of everything else.
"Crew" sits near 728 million plays, while his next most-streamed track, "Herside Story", trails at around 137 million. That puts the ratio at about 5.3, over our 5.0 line.
By our measure GoldLink is a certified one-hit wonder, with a caveat for an artist whose reputation rests on more than a single song. His is a familiar modern-rap shape: a smooth, star-assisted crossover hit that reached far beyond his core following and became, on streams, large enough to outweigh a more adventurous body of work. The late-night groove of "Crew" has aged into a modern R&B-rap standard.