The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights has overtaken Ed Sheeran to become Spotify’s most streamed song of all time. According to @chartdata, the 2019 hit now has 3.332 billion streams on the service, slightly ahead of previous leader Shape Of You. These two songs are the only ones to surpass 3 billion streams on the platform.
.@theweeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is now the #1 most streamed song in Spotify history, surpassing @edsheeran’s “Shape of You” (3.332 billion).
— chart data (@chartdata) December 31, 2022
By the end of 2021, Blinding Lights had also officially become the Billboard Hot 100’s most popular single of all time. The song, which appeared on the album After Hours and was released in late 2019, spent more than 100 weeks on the charts. During this time, she set a new record for the number of weeks in the Top Five (43 weeks), Top 10 (57 weeks) and Top 40 (86 weeks).
happy new years to blinding lights. the most streamed song of all time tonight @Spotify pic.twitter.com/kNL0X6zK2o
— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) December 31, 2022
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The Weeknd shared screenshots from the music video for Blinding Lights, writing: “Happy New Years to Blinding Lights. The song with the most streams of all time tonight.”
It should be noted that the clip for the song Blinding Lights was released on YouTube about 2 years ago and today it has 662 million views.
Source: nme
