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As of December 2024, American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He is followed by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd, who was the first artist in history to surpass 100 million monthly listeners, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was the first female artist and second overall. [18]
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 828 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 124 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
"Numb" by Linkin Park was the first 2000s video predating YouTube to reach 1 billion views in November 2018. [59] "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen was the first 1970s video (and pre-1990s video) to reach 1 billion views in July 2019. [60] "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses was the first 1980s video to reach 1 billion views in October 2019. [61]
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales.
The music video for LMFAO's song "Party Rock Anthem" stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for Psy's "Gangnam Style" surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes.
[1] [2] "Swag Se Swagat" became the first Indian music video to cross 500 million views on YouTube. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] "Humpty the train on a fruits ride" by "Kiddiestv Hindi - Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs" became the first Hindi video on YouTube to cross 1 billion views on 26 December 2019 and is the most viewed Hindi video on YouTube.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, [1] is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy. [2] [3] This consumption includes streaming and song downloads in addition to traditional album sales. The album-equivalent unit was introduced in the mid-2010s as an answer ...