The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights has topped Ed Sheeran’s Form of You to develop into Spotify’s most-streamed track of all time.

The track has to this point (as of January 3, 2023) racked up 3.336 billion chart-eligible streams on the music-streaming platform, exceeding 3.334 billion streams for Shape of You.

Tones & I’s Dance Monkey is in at No.3 with 2.538 billion streams, based on Spotify chart knowledge, with Lewis Capaldi’s Somebody You Liked (2.520bn) and Publish Malone’s Sunflower (2.419bn) rounding out the High 5.

The Weeknd celebrated the feat on Twitter on December 31, saying: “[H]appy new years to blinding lights. essentially the most streamed track of all time tonight @Spotify”

The Canadian singer launched the track in November 2019 because the second single from his fourth studio album, After Hours, which dropped in March 2020.

The track was co-produced by the artist alongside Swedish musicians Max Martin and Oscar Holter and Canadian musicians Stomach and DaHeala.

The Spotify feat follows Blinding Lights’ success on the Billboard Sizzling 100 charts the place it topped for 4 weeks and held a spot within the high 10 for a yr.

Talking in regards to the achievement in March 2021, The Weeknd, born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, stated: “This Billboard chart file is actually a results of the followers. I’m so humbled and endlessly grateful to them.”

The observe turned Billboard’s No. 1 track of all time in November 2021 and has since stored that spot on Billboard’s Biggest of All Time Sizzling 100 Songs thus far. It dethroned Chubby Checker’s The Twist and Santana’s Easy with Rob Thomas.

Blinding Lights was additionally The Weeknd’s nearer throughout his Tremendous Bowl LV halftime present in February 2021.

On YouTube, the music video for Blinding Lights amassed 663 million views as of writing.

The recognition of Blinding Lights is partly attributed to a dance problem on TikTok. Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Occasions, stated the #blindinglightschallenge on TikTok “has been ubiquitous, among the many most healthful of all viral dances.”

The critic described the track as one thing that might have been taken out of a Jazzercise tape from 1986.

“It says loads in regards to the sturdiness of the Weeknd’s early noir, the total dedication to the louche aesthetic he embodied — see his cameo in Uncut Gems, which relies on it — that even the raging centrist reputation of Blinding Lights can’t disinter it,” Caramanica stated in a 2020 article.

The Weeknd has thus far acquired 20 Billboard Music Awards, six American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards and 4 Grammy Awards.

Nonetheless, in 2021, The Weeknd stated he’s boycotting The Grammys as a result of an absence of belief in teh awards.

“The belief has been damaged for thus lengthy between the Grammy group and artists that it might be unwise to lift a victory flag,” the artist informed Selection in 2021.

“I believe the trade and public alike have to see the clear system actually at play for the win to be celebrated, but it surely’s an essential begin… I stay bored with being part of the GRAMMYS particularly with their very own admission of corruption for all these many years. I cannot be submitting sooner or later,” The Weeknd continued.

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