The last album of The Weeknd, After Hours, arrived more than two years ago, but the Canadian maintains his leadership on music streaming platforms as if he released songs every week. Not even Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny have been able to take the position when both artists have recently released albums.
In addition to being the singer with the most monthly listenersalso wins the title of the most listened to song in Spotify history. It is neither more nor less than Blinding Lightsone of the songs that make up their latest album, and that in a very short time managed to break all records.
And that is precisely what we are talking about today. The artist has once again beaten a new one thanks to this song, which was the first to surpass the 4 billion views on the streaming platform and making quite a difference to the second, which is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran with 3.805 million listens. It is also worth noting that this last song has a certain advantage, since it came out three years before The Weeknd’s.
How much money has The Weeknd been able to raise with Blinding Lights on Spotify?
Believe it or not, platforms like Spotify are not the main source of income for singers, and even less so if they do not manage to gather millions of views. The amount that artists receive for each reproduction is around 0.003 and 0.005 dollars. In euros it translates into figures ranging from 0.0027 to 0.0046 euros.
Blindig Lights currently has 4,105,317,679 views, so, according to our calculations, The Weeknd would have earned between 12,315,953,037 and 20,526,588.395 dollars for this song. Yes, between 12 and 20 million dollars for a single songalthough in euros it would be a little less… but only a little, between 11 and 18 million.
The 10 most listened to songs on Spotify
Almost all of the songs that make up the list of the most played on this platform came out in the 2010s, but, although we have been on this new one for just over three years, there are already two songs that make it into this very important ranking. These are As It Was by Harry Styles (2022) and stay by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber (2021).
This is the ranking of the most listened to songs in the history of Spotify:
- Blinding Lights – The Weeknd (4.105 million views)
- Shape of You – Ed Sheeran (3.805 million views)
- Someone You Loved – Lewis Capaldi (3,252 million views)
- Sunflower – Post Malone, Swae Lee (3,193 million views)
- starboy – The Weeknd, Daft Punk (3,085 million views)
- As It Was – Harry Styles (3,064 million views)
- One Dance – Drake, Wizkid, Kyla (3,028 million views)
- Dance Monkey – Tones and I (3,004 million views)
- stay – The Kid Laroi, Justin Bieber (2,977 million views)
- Rockstar – Post Malone, 21 Savage (2.891 million views)
