Blinding Lights Updates

Updates on Blinding Lights statistics, Spotify's #1 most streamed song of all time! 🥇📀. Main account: @muchmorematt

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The Spotify counter has updated, revealing the exact number of streams each song had at 11:59PM on New Year’s Eve. ‘Blinding Lights’ ended the year with 147,766 more streams than ‘Shape of You’ in an iconic battle for Spotify’s #1 most streamed song. Congratulations @theweeknd 🏆

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Blinding Lights Daily Countdown to #1 on Spotify - December 31st, 2022

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.@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" becomes the first song to surpass 5 billion streams in Spotify history.

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On August 31st, 2025, The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" became the first song to reach 5 billion streams on Spotify.

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It becomes Abel's 7th YouTube video to surpass 1 billion views. If the views of all 3 "Blinding Lights" videos were combined, it would be his most viewed video with over 2.75 billion views

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The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" music video has reached 1 BILLION views on YouTube — 2,200 days after release (6 years, 8 days)

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If the chart were extended beyond the top 200, "Blinding Lights" would rank in the top 225. It will return to the chart within the top 125 on December 26th.

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.@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" does not appear on Spotify's Daily Top Songs Global chart for the first time since its release over 5 years ago, as 119 Christmas songs flood the top 200. It holds the record for the longest streak of consecutive days on the chart with 1852 days.

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Today will be "Blinding Lights" last day on the Global Spotify chart until it returns after Christmas to start a new streak. It will end its historic run as the ONLY song to spend its first 5 years on the chart without ever leaving. It's been such an incredible 1,852 days 🎧🏆

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.@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" spends a fifth straight year in the top 75 of Apple Music's Top Songs of the year:
2024 • #65
2023 • #46
2022 • #17
2021 • #5
2020 • #2

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@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" spends a fifth straight year in the top 50 of Spotify's Top Tracks of the year:
2024 • #48
2023 • #39
2022 • #27
2021 • #8
2020 • #1

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"Blinding Lights" currently leads the list of songs with the longest streaks on Global Spotify (its streak is 289 days longer than the second longest streak). But if it leaves the chart this month, "Sweater Weather" will likely stay on the chart and break its record next October.

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.@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" is the first song in history to spend 5 straight years (1827 days) on Global Spotify. It spent a record-breaking 446 days in the top 10, 1042 days in the top 50, and 1793 days in the top 100. It has never left the chart since its release in 2019.

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It has spent 98% of its 5-year run in the top 100, spending just 34 days outside of the region, while never leaving the top 200. But its legendary streak may come to an end this Christmas Eve as holiday songs flood the chart. It would only be 5 months away from a 2000-day streak.

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.@theweeknd’s "Blinding Lights" is the first song in Spotify history to reach 4.5 billion streams.

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“Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd becomes the first track in history to reach 4.5 BILLION streams on Spotify.

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The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” becomes the first song in history to reach 4.5 billion streams on Spotify.

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#BlindingLights
4.4B – Original
65M – ROSALÍA Remix
15M – Major Lazer Remix
13M – Chromatic Remix
5M – Instrumental

#ShapeOfYou
4B – Original
187M – Acoustic
109M – Latin Remix
90M – Stormzy Remix
80M – Major Lazer Remix
33M – Galantis Remix
17M – Yxng Bane Remix
9M – NOTD Remix

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Last week, @theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" became Spotify's most streamed song across all 5 versions, surpassing all 8 versions of @edsheeran's "Shape of You".

Abel also has 4 of the top 12 most streamed songs:
#1. Blinding Lights
#4. Save Your Tears
#8. Starboy
#11. Die For You

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The original version of "Blinding Lights" accounts for 98% of the song's total streams, while the original version of "Shape of You" accounts for 88% of the song's total streams.

[source: @chartmastersorg]

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.@theweeknd's "Blinding Lights" music video becomes his 9th video to reach 800M views on YouTube, behind:

Starboy (2.3B)
The Hills (2B)
Save Your Tears (1.4B)
Can't Feel My Face (1.3B)
I Feel It Coming (1.1B)
Call Out My Name (944M)
Low Life (820M)
Love Me Harder (817M)

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.@theweeknd now has 2 of the top 5 most streamed songs in Spotify history with "Blinding Lights" (#1) and "Starboy" (#5).

The last artist to have 2 songs in the top 5 was @edsheeran in May 2020 with "Shape of You" (#1) and "Thinking Out Loud" (#5).