Spotify Billion Streams Club

What?s really special with Patrick Watson is that while being anglophone and recording almost exclusively in English, his billionaire song is one of his very few songs recorded in French.

Very interesting article. Wish my keyboard worked, then I could make comments.

I don’t rate this at all.

Music as background noise is normalized now. Spotify or YouTube can easily get a song to a billion streams but people still know heroes by Bowie and will remember it in 50 more years whereas the latest pop song with a cartoon gorilla by Coldplay will be forgotten and you’ll tell people “but it had a billion views” and it’ll be like telling people that shakin stevens had more top UK chart hit singles than the Beatles.


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Nine songs from the 20th century are in the top 100 most streamed songs of all time from Spotify. All of them have over 2 Billion streams. Most songs in the top 100, 83, are from AFTER January 2010.

35   "Bohemian Rhapsody"   Queen   2.716   31 October 1975
57   "Every Breath You Take"   The Police   2.490   20 May 1983
77   "Don't Stop Believin'"   Journey   2.306   19 October 1981
78   "Smells Like Teen Spirit"   Nirvana   2.305   10 September 1991   
84   "Wonderwall"   Oasis   2.262   30 October 1995   
88   "Don't Stop Me Now"   Queen   2.246   26 January 1979
92   "Take On Me"   A-ha   2.228   19 October 1984
98   "Iris"   Goo Goo Dolls   2.183   1 April 1998
99   "All I Want For Christmas Is You"   Mariah Carey   2.168   29 October 1994