The Weekend’s ‘Blinding Lights’ Is Now Most-Streamed on Spotify

While the weekend may be over, The Weeknd remains to be going robust. The singer’s 2019 hit “Blinding Lights” has formally change into probably the most streamed music on the music streaming platform Spotify as of December 31, 2022.

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” from his 2020 album After Hours was topped probably the most streamed music ever on Spotify on December 31, 2022, with a whopping 3,334,180,640 streams as of January 3. The information comes from an announcement by the singer himself: “happy new years to blinding lights,” The Weeknd wrote on Instagram on New Year’s Eve. “the most streamed song of all time tonight.”

Spotify didn’t instantly return Gizmodo’s request for touch upon the achievement, and has not issued an official launch on the most recent streaming numbers.

“Blinding Lights” taking the highest spot on Spotify implies that it has swiped the title from Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You.” The latter observe was launched in January 2017 and was topped most streamed music on Spotify shortly after in September 2017, according to Billboard. “Shape of You” additionally grew to become the primary music to succeed in three billion streams on the platform in 2021—the music presently has 3,332,970,120 streams on Spotify.

Meanwhile, “Blinding Lights” made waves upon its first launch. Spotify reported in 2020 that the music was probably the most streamed music of the yr, racking up 1.6 billion streams. Outside of Spotify, “Blinding Lights” spent 90 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, which makes it the longest charting music by a solo artist on the Hot 100.

The high 5 most streamed songs on Spotify as of writing:

1. “Blinding Lights” – The Weeknd
2. “Shape of You” – Ed Sheeran
3. “Dance Monkey” – Tones and I
4. “Someone You Loved” – Lewis Capaldi
5. “Rockstar” – Post Malone ft. 21 Savage