Lil Xan is an American rapper who emerged from the SoundCloud-rap wave of the late 2010s, and his commercial peak rests on one song. "Betrayed", released in 2017, was a melodic, melancholy trap track that became a genuine hit, reaching the US top 100 and turning him, briefly, into one of the more talked-about names in the scene.
His moment was turbulent and short-lived, marked by public controversies and health struggles, and his later releases never matched that breakthrough. The rest of his catalogue sits well behind it.
On streaming, "Betrayed" sits near 646 million plays, while his next most-streamed track, "Slingshot", trails at around 122 million. That puts the ratio at about 5.3, over our 5.0 line.
By our measure Lil Xan is a certified one-hit wonder. His is a quintessential SoundCloud-era story: an artist who broke through quickly with one moody, of-the-moment trap hit, then struggled to sustain the momentum, leaving that single song far ahead of everything else he has put out. The speed of his rise was matched only by the speed with which the spotlight moved on.