DRAM, the American artist now often known as Shelley FKA DRAM, is a Virginia singer and rapper whose warm, joyful style found its biggest expression in one playful hit. "Broccoli", released in 2016 with Lil Yachty, was a bright, grinning, piano-led track that became a top-five smash and one of the feel-good rap songs of its year.
DRAM is a genuinely talented and versatile artist, with critically liked work before and since, including the earlier viral "Cha Cha". But on streaming, "Broccoli" has pulled far ahead of everything else.
It sits near 932 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at around 92 million. That puts the ratio above 10, well past our 5.0 line.
By our measure DRAM is a certified one-hit wonder, with a caveat for an artist whose talent runs broader than the numbers suggest. His is a familiar modern-rap shape: an irresistibly cheerful collaboration that became a defining hit, so large and so beloved that it overshadowed a more adventurous body of work. The joy was real; so was the way it eclipsed everything around it.