The Weeknd achieves another milestone with “Blinding Lights”.
The Weeknd continue to achieve streaming success as the singer’s hit “Blinding Lights” becomes the first track to surpass 4 billion streams on Spotify. Around a year ago, the song surpassed Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” to become Spotify’s most streamed song. Along with this record, the singer also broke his own monthly listeners record on the platform, surpassing 113 million monthly listeners.
“I’ll never stop being humbled by anything I create making its way to millions of people let alone billions,” The Weeknd wrote in a statement. “I’m so thankful this song makes people feel a way that they keep going back to listen.”
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Previously, the song became the fastest ever to surpass 3 billion on Spotify, and now it also achieved the four billion mark. The song also earned the Canadian artist one of his four RIAA Diamond certifications. In 2022, the song also made history as it became the new #1 song on Billboard’s Greatest Songs of All Time on the Hot 100 Chart.
Blinding Lights was released in 2019 as the second single from Weeknd’s fourth studio album “After Hours (2020)”. The track topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks and went on to set new records as the song with the most weeks spent in the top 5 and top 10, as well as the first song to hold a spot in the top 10 on the chart for an entire year. It is also the longest charting song by a solo artist on the Hot 100 of all time, spending 90 weeks on the chart.
