Spotify is one of the most-popular music streaming services, and has 465 million users, 195 million of which are paid subscribers. And while he did not submit his music for consideration for the 2023 Grammy Awards, his original song for the movie Avatar: The Way Of Water made the shortlist for Oscars consideration. ![]() After his 2020 album featuring “Blinding Lights,” After Hours, The Weeknd released the album Dawn FM in 2022. At the height of its popularity in 2021, The Weeknd-whose real name is Abel Tesfaye-performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. 3 spot on Billboard’s chart of the most popular songs of 2021, and was one of the most-streamed songs on Apple Music last year. ![]() That year it was also the most-streamed song on Spotify. Previously, in order to get music onto Spotify (or most other digital streaming services), artists would have to go through a distributor like DistroKid, CD Baby, TuneCore, Record Union or EmuBands. ![]() The song was released at the tail end of 2019, and was the No. “Blinding Lights” spent four weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it one of the Weeknd’s six career No. Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so in consecutive years (20202022). It’s one of the longest chart runs in history, second to Glass Animals’ song “Heat Wave.” Key Background That’s how many weeks “Blinding Lights” spent on the Billboard Hot 100. Some of the other most-streamed songs on Spotify include Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey (2.7 billion streams), Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved (2.5 billion) and Post Malone and 21 Savage’s “Rock Star” (2.5 billion). ![]() The Weeknd has not yet commented on his achievement.
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