Cardi B, Bhad Bhabie & Lily Allen have all made accounts on the platform.
Cardi B attends the Messika Paris Womenswear Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 26, 2024 in Paris, France.
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In an age where connecting with fans can be more difficult than ever, many musicians have found a platform where they can strip away the barriers between themselves and their audience — plus, in some cases, a few layers of clothing.
The platform in question is OnlyFans, a website created for, well, creators, which gives users total control over when and how fans consume their content. Taking away the need for middlemen distributors and removing some of the artificiality that has overtaken other social media channels, OnlyFans allows people to choose exactly what they want to post and how much money — if any — they want to charge for access to that content, as well as build a rapport with follower bases that’s often more focused and engaged than any given star’s audience is outside of the site.
With its opportunities for connection and added income through its subscription model, it’s a no-brainer why musicians might want to sign up for OnlyFans, especially in an increasingly difficult economy for performers. But the platform’s reputation for hosting an abundance of NSFW content also precedes it, which could be why many musicians have strayed from it in favor of similar subscription-based spaces such as Patreon.
That said, there have been a handful of musical artists who have made their mark on OnlyFans, whether it was simply to communicate with fans and share exclusive content, or to partake in some of the more explicit content creation the site is best known for. To see some of the most notable musicians who have done so, keep reading to see Billboard‘s lineup below.
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Bhad Bhabie
In 2021, the rapper born Danielle Bregoli broke an OnlyFans record, earning $1 million in just six hours — faster than any other creator at that point. Bregoli — who at one point charged $23.99 per month for access to her content — later shared receipts proving she’d made more than $50 million on the site.
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Cardi B
For fans who wanted to check out behind-the-scenes footage of Cardi B’s “WAP” video with Megan Thee Stallion, they needed to pay $4.99 a month to access the Invasion of Privacy rapper’s page — because that was where they could find it. And for those thinking she’d posted any X-rated adult content, think again. “NO I WONT BE SHOWING P—Y , TITTIES AND A– .LINK IN BIO…It will be a place for only me and my fans,” the artist confirmed on Instagram in 2020.
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Casanova
The rapper wanted to collect some cash on the site after being inspired by women purchasing their “dream houses” from their OnlyFans profits, according to Insider.
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Lily Allen
In July 2024, Lily Allen announced that she’d be joining OnlyFans for a very specific purpose: to sell photos of her feet. At the time of launching, she charged subscribers $10 monthly for looks at her toes.
She later revealed that the venture was making her more money than her own music catalog on one of the world’s biggest streamers, writing on X, “Imagine being [an] artist and having nearly 8 million monthly listeners on spotify but earning more money from having 1000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet.”
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Rico Nasty
The “Aquí Yo Mando” rapper used the platform around 2020, charging $6 a month to access and promote her solo music on the site. According to a Reddit r/popheads thread, she at one point announced that she’d be pre-releasing her “iPhone” music video on OnlyFans two days before dropping it officially.
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Rubi Rose
The ATL rapper, who made a cameo in Cardi and Megan’s “WAP” music video, made quite a lot of money on OnlyFans. Newsweek reported in July 2020 that the rapper had earned $100,000 just off of two photos she’d previously posted on Instagram, which elevated her to the top 0.32% of OnlyFans creators. Rose later tweeted in defense of her usage of the platform, which has become “saturated with sex workers who are unable to work turning to OnlyFans for a source of income,” according to the report.
“Only fans isn’t just for porn and sex s–t,” she clarified. “That’s what y’all made it out to be. Just like how ppl thought Snapchat was for sending ‘nudes.’ You can post whatever exclusive content you want for your fans to see.” At the time, she charged $14.99 for monthly subscriptions.
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Safaree Samuels & Erica Mena
The Love & Hip-Hop couple redefined the term PDA with their OnlyFans activity. The rapper joined his wife on the platform in April 2020, according to a shirtless Instagram announcement, as the two turned their accounts into personal yet public romantic spaces.
“Be a fly on our wall,” Mena posted on X, along with a sensual red-hued clip of herself and Safaree. “My husband joins me on my Only Fans.” She charged $35 a month to access her account, while Safaree charged $24.99 a month.
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Swae Lee
The Rae Sremmurd member joined the site in June 2020 only to promote his single “Reality Check,” according to his only OnlyFans post at the time. Unlike most accounts that profit off of subscription fees, fans were able to access his for free. But the rapper-singer had been debating starting an OnlyFans account since March of that year, according to his X.
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Tyson Ritter
After the All-American Rejects randomly went viral for performing at a string of small college house parties, frontman Tyson Ritter wanted to keep the spontaneity going — so he announced in a GQ interview that he was joining OF. “The excitement behind this whole thing is like, ‘Where else can we be disruptive?’” he said at the time.
“We’ve always been a band who’s got a tongue bursting through the cheek when it comes to our music,” he continued. “So why not, you know, do a little peen bursting through a zipper?”