She was deeply affected by the deaths, and would no doubt have been devastated by recent events in Northern Ireland as well. “Zombie” was a protest song written by the band’s late frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan after two children were killed by IRA bombs – was released. There’s a cruel irony that the release of The Cranberries’ final album should come just a week after journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead by the New IRA during a riot in Londonderry. While Eilish still draws befuddled stares from those outside of her demographic, her mere presence has been known to get a certain subset of teenager hyperventilating – and spending hundreds of dollars on merchandise Eilish designed herself.
The following table lists the top '100 most-streamed songs' on Spotify, with streams rounded to the nearest million, as well as the artist(s), the album it is currently published to Spotify on, and the date it was originally published.Even before she turned 17 in December, the singer Billie Eilish had accomplished nearly all of the modern prerequisites for pop stardom and then some: her homemade songs, written only with her older brother, had been streamed more than 1 billion times on digital platforms she’d played increasingly large sold-out concerts to delirious fans (and their patient parents) appeared with Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon and collected some 15 million followers on Instagram.Īmong those legions, many had already started to adopt the musician’s striking visual aesthetic: performatively dead eyes (bored, at best), hair dyed in shades of electric blue and pale purple, an all-baggy anti-silhouette – a collective middle finger to the strictures of teen-pop sex appeal. 3.1 Historical most first-day album streams.3 Milestones and achievements for albums.2.3 Longest-running number-one songs by days.2.2 Most-streamed songs in a single week.2.1 Most-streamed songs in a single day.2 Milestones and achievements for songs.1.1 Artists with the most songs in the top 100.The albums with the most songs in the top 100 are Justin Bieber's Purpose and Post Malone's Beerbongs & Bentleys with 3 entries each. The artists with the most songs in the top 100 are Post Malone with 7 (all lead), Justin Bieber with 7 (4 lead) and Ed Sheeran with 5 (all lead). "One Dance" became the first song to hit 1 billion streams on 12 December 2016, and held the streaming record for almost a year before being surpassed by "Shape of You" on 21 September 2017. A month later, however, it was surpassed by Major Lazer and DJ Snake's " Lean On", featuring MØ, which held the streaming record for 11 months until Drake's " One Dance", featuring Wizkid and Kyla, overtook it on 18 October 2016. "Wake Me Up" held the streaming record for over a year before being surpassed on by Sheeran's " Thinking Out Loud", which became the first song to hit 500 million streams on 12 October 2015. Prior to February 2014, Spotify's most-streamed song was " Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons it was overtaken by Avicii's " Wake Me Up", which became the first song to hit 200 million streams on 27 February 2014. As of November 2021, all of the top 100 songs have exceeded 1.2 billion streams, of which nine have reached 2 billion streams, with Ed Sheeran's " Shape of You" ranked in the top position. This list contains the top 100 songs with the greatest streams on the audio streaming platform Spotify. " Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran (pictured) is the most-streamed song on Spotify with 2.9 billion streams.