The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ becomes first song to surpass 4 billion streams on Spotify

The music “Blinding Lights”of the Canadian singer The weekend, broke a record in Spotify. The song, released in November 2019, reached the 4 mark this Friday (12). billions of streamsbeing the first to hit the number on the audio platform.

The single, part of the album “After Hours”, released in 2020, surpassed the song “Shape Of You”, by Ed Sheeran. The Weeknd has two most played songs on the platform, in addition to “Blinding Lights”, “Starboy” appears in sixth place among the most played on Spotify.

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Besides music, the singer also holds the record for the most listened to on the platform. Currently, it has more than 113 million monthly listeners. He was the first to reach over 100 million listeners on Spotify.

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The singer was in Brazil in October last year. The Weeknd performed with the tour “After hours until dawn”with songs from albums “Dawn FM (2022)” It is “After hours” (2020), in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

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