{"id":43134,"date":"2023-01-02T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/spotifys-most-streamed-song-is-blinding-lights-by-the-weeknd\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T00:02:13","slug":"spotifys-most-streamed-song-is-blinding-lights-by-the-weeknd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/spotifys-most-streamed-song-is-blinding-lights-by-the-weeknd\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify&#8217;s Most Streamed Song Is &#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; By The Weeknd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d has surpassed Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u201cShape Of You\u201d to turn out to be the most-streamed music in Spotify historical past. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/1609334448415444993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@chartdata<\/a>, \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d now boasts 3.332 billion streams on the platform, simply barely greater than \u201cShape Of You.\u201d The two tracks are the one ones to surpass the three billion mark on Spotify thus far. (I wager you possibly can\u2019t guess what\u2019s third on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the record<\/a>.) The Weeknd was additionally Spotify\u2019s most streamed artist of 2022, a feat he additionally achieved in 2015 and 2016. In 2021, \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2157559\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-record-billboard\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the file<\/a> for essentially the most weeks on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot 100.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogstyle__iframe\">\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet lazy-hidden\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Blinding Lights is about to take over Shape of You because the most-streamed music of all time. And I do not suppose that that debuted at #1, I believe it debuted at like 11 or 12. And then it grew, and now it is the most important music of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edsheeran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@edsheeran<\/a> on The Breakfast Club (10\/18\/22) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eofdNK6Zpt\">pic.twitter.com\/eofdNK6Zpt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blinding Lights Updates (@BlindingSights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlindingSights\/status\/1592563087625822208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Weeknd\u2019s \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d has surpassed Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u201cShape Of You\u201d to turn out to be the most-streamed music in Spotify historical past. According to @chartdata, \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d now boasts 3.332 billion streams on the platform, simply barely greater than \u201cShape Of You.\u201d The two tracks are the one ones to surpass the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}