is the most popular music streaming service in the world, but considering the extensive catalog of applications, relatively few songs can boast of exceeding the one billion plays mark. Record holders even have their own entry on Wikipedia.
The 1970s hit has surpassed one billion plays on Spotify
According to the data, the most popular song in Spotify history is “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd. The hit was the only one to exceed 4 billion plays. Second place goes to Ed Sheeran and his “Shape of You”, and the list is closed by “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi.
You only need to take a closer look at the list to see that there are not many representatives of the rock trend on the list. In 11th place was the pop-rock band Imagine Dragons with the song “Believer”, and four places further was “Sweater Weather” by the alternative band The Neighborhood. The classic rock song “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen is only 28th on the list.
It is even more difficult for metal songs to break through in similar rankings. The percentage of extreme songs that have exceeded one billion plays on Spotify is small. Such compositions include the numbers “Enter Sandman” and “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica. Black Sabbath has just joined the small group of artists who can boast a seven-digit result.
Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” was released on the album at the last minute
“Paranoid” from 1970 exceeded the billion plays mark on Spotify. The bassist and co-founder of the band thanked all the fans. “Thank you to everyone who made ‘Paranoid’ part of the billion plays club on Spotify,” writes Geezer Butler. Interestingly, the song almost didn’t appear on the album of the same title.
Black Sabbath on Spotify Photo frame from Spotify
“The album’s producer told me that we needed one more song to complete the album. I’ve never written a three-minute song before. Black Sabbath songs were always about five or six minutes long,” Tony Iommi, the band’s guitarist, recalled the process of creating the song in an interview with BBC Radio 4.
Source: Gazeta
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