Key Takeaways:

• “Blinding Lights” broke data as the primary track to surpass 5 billion streams on Spotify.
• The Weeknd acknowledged the achievement throughout his “After Hours Til Dawn 2025 Stadium Tour.”
• His catalog now contains 28 songs in Spotify’s Billions Club, showcasing his sustained international attraction.

The Weeknd positive is aware of put up numbers. On Sunday (Aug. 31), Spotify introduced that the Grammy-winning singer’s “Blinding Lights” grew to become the primary track ever to surpass 5 billion streams on the platform.

The singer, presently on his large “After Hours Til Dawn 2025 Stadium Tour,” celebrated the information with a easy repost on his Instagram Stories. The feat comes almost six years after “Blinding Lights” was launched because the second single from 2019’s After Hours.

At the time, the document spent 4 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made historical past as the primary track to remain within the Top 10 for a complete yr, which is fairly spectacular to say the least.

Last yr, The Weeknd spoke with music/music-news/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-spotify-five-billion-streams-1236055908/”>Billboard about “Blinding Lights” hitting the 4 billion mark. “I’ll never stop being humbled by anything I create making its way to millions of people, let alone billions,” he shared. “I’m so thankful this song makes people feel a way that they keep going back to listen.”

“Blinding Lights” could have been The Weeknd’s first monitor to surpass a billion streams, but it surely’s removed from the one one. In reality, he now has 28 songs within the billion-streams club, together with “The Hills,” “After Hours,” and “Can’t Feel My Face.”

So, it was solely becoming that the Dawn FM singer headlined Spotify’s first-ever Billions Club Live in 2024, the place he had closed the yr because the platform’s second-most-streamed artist. “When the idea first struck to bring the Billions Club to life, we knew we wanted to celebrate both the artist and the fans simultaneously,” the streaming service’s head of artist and label partnerships, Monica Damashek, shared.

She added, “The Weeknd was the ideal choice — he’s the artist with the most songs in the Billions Club and has an unwavering global fanbase.”