Last week Spotify, Pandora and Apple removed R. Kelly music from their promoted playlists in response to recent backlash over his decades long reputation for exploiting women [click here if you missed that].
R. Kelly fans rally to support him...
From Variety
...following the May 10 announcement, R. Kelly totaled 6,676,000 streams, nearly 100,000 more than his weekly average of 6,584,000. Much of that increase can actually be attributed to a seemingly defiant spike on the day after the announcement, which saw a bump of around 117,000 on the first day before settling into approximately average streaming numbers for the year to date. On-demand video numbers followed a similar pattern.
