--- title: Nelly's Spotify Streaming Has Tripled Since #SaveNelly Started description: Thanks to a campaign by his fans to solve Nelly's debt by Spotify streaming, Spotify plays of the rapper have tripled since last week. canonical: https://time.com/4497372/nelly-spotify-streaming-tripled/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-16T19:46:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:41.266Z og:title: Spotify Streaming of Nelly Triples With #SaveNelly og:description: Queue up "Hot in Herre" og:url: https://time.com/4497372/nelly-spotify-streaming-tripled/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10ad62d75a814ace/6988a675cf40a83b3bc44d91/nelly-spotify-streaming-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Ottawa Bluesfest og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Spotify Streaming of Nelly Triples With #SaveNelly twitter:description: Queue up "Hot in Herre" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10ad62d75a814ace/6988a675cf40a83b3bc44d91/nelly-spotify-streaming-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Spotify Streaming of Nelly Has Tripled Since Fans Started the #SaveNelly Campaign > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Mark Horton/Getty Images) Mark Horton—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 16, 2016 7:46 PM UTC When news broke last week that [Nelly](http://time.com/4055472/taylor-swift-haim-nelly/) was reportedly in some major debt with the IRS, fans rallied around the rapper, running with [a solution proposed by _Spin_ that listeners should stream the rapper’s songs on Spotify](http://time.com/4490160/savenelly-spotify-nelly/) a collective 287,176,547 times so that he could receive a sizeable payout. Fans started using the hashtag #SaveNelly, [playing hits like “Hot in Herre” and “Ride Wit Me”](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937225,00.html) often on repeat to help the rapper rack up plays. Less than a week later, it looks like the #SaveNelly campaign has already helped Nelly rack up some major airtime on Spotify. Spotify told _TIME_ that streams of Nelly during peak listening hours have tripled compared to the previous week. If you’re looking to help #SaveNelly, we’ve included the Spotify link for his classic _Country Grammar_ below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4497372/nelly-spotify-streaming-tripled/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4497372/nelly-spotify-streaming-tripled/"},"headline":"Spotify Streaming of Nelly Has Tripled Since Fans Started the #SaveNelly Campaign","datePublished":"2016-09-16T19:46:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:41.266Z","description":"Queue up \"Hot in Herre\"","url":"https://time.com/4497372/nelly-spotify-streaming-tripled/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Spotify","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10ad62d75a814ace/6988a675cf40a83b3bc44d91/nelly-spotify-streaming-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10ad62d75a814ace/6988a675cf40a83b3bc44d91/nelly-spotify-streaming-increase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ottawa Bluesfest","caption":"Ottawa Bluesfest","creditText":"Mark Horton—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4497372/nelly-spotify-streaming-tripled/","name":"Spotify Streaming of Nelly Has Tripled Since Fans Started the #SaveNelly Campaign"}}]}] ```