The Weeknd creates history with “Blinding Lights”.
The Weeknd continues breaking records with his hit “Blindings Lights” as he rewrites history on Spotify. The track which was released in 2021, became the first track in history to surpass 5 billion streams on Spotify. Over a year ago, the track was first to hit 4 billion streams on the platform, and before that, it was also the first to hit 3 billion.
On August 31st, 2025, The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” became the first song to reach 5 billion streams on Spotify. pic.twitter.com/fKepQkTk7H
— Spotify (@Spotify) August 31, 2025
The hit 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.
Just recently, Billboard also named the song as the top R&B/hip-hop song of the 21st century.
Billboard ranks The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” as the #1 R&B/Hip-Hop song of the 21st century 📈🏆
#1: The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
#2: Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow – Industry Baby
#3: Mary J. Blige – Be Without You
#4: Miguel – Sure Thing
#5: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz -… pic.twitter.com/lb8eYzdxde— HotNewHipHop (@HotNewHipHop) August 28, 2025
