Boy/Girl Bands and the Billion Songs This is the volume that keeps me up at night in the best possible sense. Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, known as XXXTentacion, died at twenty. He had a personal history marked by violence, abandonment, and legal troubles. No family in the traditional sense, no formal musical education, no singing school or academy. And yet he composed melodies of an almost inexplicable beauty songs that touched something deep in millions of people around the world, and that continue to grow in streams years after his death. How is that possible? What happens when the gift of music falls on someone the world had already written o ? It's a question the Billion Club poses with unusual force and one that deserves a whole volume to be explored with the respect and complexity it requires. Write to me 10 is an independent editorial project. There's no publisher behind it, no marketing o ce. There's a database, a passion for numbers, and I hope readers as curious as I am. If you've read this volume and have something to say an observation, a correction, a suggestion about a track or an artist that deserves more attention, or simply a reaction to what you've read write to me. I read everything. Suggest my next topic. Tell me what you liked and what you didn't. Flag an error if you nd one the database grows thanks to its readers too. 164