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>Go pull up other popular musicians for comparison
Here is the full list https://kworb.net/spotify/listeners.html
He's at #83 which is obviously NOT BAD but here are some names he's trailing
>sombr
>Arijit Singh
>Ozuna
>Shreya Ghoshal
and, amusingly
>Wiz Khalifa
whose claim to fame, to the best of my knowledge, is the "TikTok" diss song where the bloke confused him with Mia Khalifa and which got popular because of this chick which might have single handedly made TikTok a thing in North America after they merged Musically

My whole point is NOT that nobody knows "Tyler the Creator", but that having lots of monthly streams in Spotify is not an immediate sign of widespread recognition.
Sometimes it is hyperlocal recognition or even a single big hit