Harry Styles’ record-breaking #1 single “As It Was” (co-written & co-produced by Tyler Johnson) has tallied another milestone achievement. It has become the fastest song in history to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, which it did in just 4 months since being released on April 1st. “As It Was” is the lead single from Harry Styles’ #1 album ‘Harry’s House’ which was the biggest release in the first half of 2022, and the single has been certified 2X Platinum. Johnson is a co-writer and co-producer on 10 of the songs from ‘Harry’s House’
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BTS's "Butter" has reached a new huge milestone on Spotify!
According to Spotify's most recent update on October 12 KST, BTS's "Butter" officially racked up over 1 billion cumulative streams on the platform. Released on May 21, 2021 as the global boy band's second English-language single, "Butter" has surpassed 1 billion total streams one year and four months later.
"Butter" has become BTS's second song to reach the milestone on Spotify after the group's first full English-language single, "Dynamite". In addition, "Butter" and "Dynamite" are the only songs by a K-Pop act to hit a whopping 1 billion streams on the platform.
The real Slim Shady has stood up more than 1 billion times.
As of Tuesday, Eminem's 2000 hit "The Real Slim Shady" has surpassed the 1 billion streams mark on Spotify, according to data from the digital music service.
The Dr. Dre-produced smash is Em's fourth song to cross Spotify's 1 billion stream milestone, after "Lose Yourself" (1.4B streams), "'Till I Collapse" (1.3B) and "Without Me" (1.1B).
"Love the Way You Lie," Em's hit duet with Rihanna, is on deck with 993 million streams, and 2020's "Godzilla" has 935 million.
"The Real Slim Shady" was Eminem's debut single off his second major label album, "The Marshall Mathers LP." The song, which peaked at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, earned Em a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.
Its video, which has racked up 695 million views on YouTube, earned two MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, which it won over Blink 182's "All the Small Things," D'Angelo's "Untitled (How Does it Feel)," *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" and Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication."
The song is Eminem's playful middle finger to the sudden fame he found a year earlier, when he was tossed into the pop music playpen with a host of others whom he namechecks in the song, including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst and Tom Green.
To date, Spotify's Billions Club includes 267 songs. Recent additions include AC/DC's "Highway to Hell," Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," J Balvin and Bad Bunny's "La Canción," Pitbull and Kesha's "Timber" and Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."
Justin Bieber leads all artists with 10 songs over 1 billion streams.
The most-streamed songs in Spotify's history are Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" with 3.1 billion streams and the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" with 3 billion streams.
Eminem recently released a pair of new songs, "The King and I," from the "Elvis" soundtrack, and "From The D 2 The LBC," a collaboration with Snoop Dogg.
Eminem, who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year, has hinted that a sequel to his 2005 greatest hits compilation "Curtain Call – The Hits" may be on its way.
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Spotify Launches New ‘Billions Club’ Playlist Featuring Billie Eilish, Drake & More: Exclusive
Spotify is launching a playlist featuring the songs that have surpassed the one billion streams mark on the service. Get the exclusive details here.
Wondering which artists have joined Spotify’s Billion Streams Club? Wonder no more. Billboard can exclusively announce that the streaming service is launching its “Billions Club” playlist on Thursday (June 17).
According to Spotify, the new playlist — which currently features more than 150 songs — highlights the megahits that have surpassed the one billion streams mark. Included on the new playlist are Billie Eilish‘s “Bad Guy,” Drake‘s “God’s Plan,” J Balvin‘s “Mi Gente,” and many, many others.
“Spotify has long celebrated artist milestones and we wanted to find a unique way to honor the artists and songs fans can’t stop listening to,” Ashley Graver, Global Head of Creative Artist Partnerships, tells Billboard. “The Billions Club playlist is a natural evolution of the plaques you have seen from multiple artists, and we are excited to give fans a one-stop destination to enjoy some of the most streamed songs in the world.”
Also in celebration of the newly rounded up collection of songs, Spotify created a video sharing how various artists have reveled when learning of the milestone and receiving their One Billion Streams plaque from the streamer.
Prior to the launch of the “Billions Club” playlist, some artists have marked hitting the billion streams achievement by doing more than just showing off their shiny new plaques on social media. Several have literally eaten off the platter-shaped badge of honor: Halsey dug into some Cheetos and candy, Joe Jonas dined on some McDonald’s, and Quavo ate some scrambled eggs and waffles with plenty of syrup, for example. (See more in our gallery.)
Spotify has been busy this year launching new features beyond the just announced “Billions Club” playlist. In April, the streaming service started adding some livestream events to artist pages, and in late May, partnered with Driift for tickets to a virtual concert series.
Stream the “Billions Club” playlist and watch the celebratory video below:
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