The Weeknd's Most Played Blinding Lights On Spotify Throughout Time

The Weeknd (Twitter @tewekkend)

JAKARTA - The Blinding Lights is the most played song on Spotify of all time.

According to the @chartdata account on Twitter, the single hit of the singer whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, which was released in 2019, reached 3,332 billion streams on the service.

.@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" is now the #1 most streamed song in Spotify history, surpassing @edsheeran's "Shape of You" (3.332 billion).

— chart data (@chartdata) December 31, 2022

This number is slightly above Ed Sheeran's song, Shape Of You. However, it is certain that both songs remain the only pair of songs that passed three billion streams on Spotify.

Looking back a little, towards the end of 2021, Blinding Lights has also been officially named the greatest US Billboard Hot 100 single of all time. The song, which appeared on the album After Hours, spent more than 100 weeks on the charts.

At that time, the song set a new record for most of the week on the Top 5 (43 weeks), Top 10 (57 weeks) and Top 40 (86 weeks) charts. This achievement also replaces the hit of Chubby Checker in 1960, The Twist, as the largest US Billboard Hot 100 single of all time.

Welcoming the news on Twitter on New Year's Eve, The Weeknd shared screencaps from the video of the song with the caption: "Happy New Year to blinding lights, the most widely streaming song of all time tonight."

happy new years to blinding lights. the most streamed song of all time tonight @Spotify pic.twitter.com/kNL0X6zK2o

— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) December 31, 2022