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Heat Waves 1,640,902,756
Heat Waves (with iann dior) 72,470,777
Heat Waves - Slowed 24,157,033
Heat Waves - Diplo Remix 16,594,111
Heat Waves - Stripped Back 13,805,020
Heat Waves - Oliver Heldens Remix 9,052,878
Heat Waves - Shakur Ahmad Remix 5,382,221
Heat Waves - Sonny Fodera Remix 4,737,676
Heat Waves - Riton Remix 1,813,234
Heat Waves - Live 746,354
Total: 1,789,662,060
So the song is already at #43, but you can continue to 'minus' my comments lol
Hi LiohaK!
I don't think people doubt of your comments, a bit like how many people downvote CSPC articles of artists they don't like, just because, well, they don't like them. It has nothing to do with the article itself.
I know that we are late on this list, our target is to upload most 1b+ songs together to expand it, rather than getting into a manual scanning and additions of each song that gets there, but the whole process is taking longer than expected as new songs cross this mark day in day out at the moment!
Hello,
Your hard work is very appreciated! It would be so great getting this list expanded.
The fact that Queen has the #27 most streamed song of all-time is astounding. With a song from 1975. The next "oldest" song on the list is from 2012, once the streaming era had already started out.
Yeah, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is an absolute phenomenon amongst the legacy songs.
The closest legacy tracks as I can assume are:
Smells Like Teen Spirit - 1.3+ billion streams
All I Want for Christmas Is You - 1.2+ billion streams
Dreams - 1 billion streams
Don't Stop Me Now 1.4b, Another One Bites The Dust 1.3b, Don't Stop Believin 1.3b, Take On Me maybe 1.3b, I've no search credit left 🙁
We definitely need to create a separate list of the most streamed legacy songs of all times.
Top pre-2000 songs, credit to Thomas Christiansen :
(#) indicates ranking as of Jan 2nd 2021.
As of Jan 1st 2022:
1 (1) QUEEN – Bohemian Rhapsody – 1793M
2 (3) QUEEN – Don’t Stop Me Now – 1310M
3 (2) OASIS – Wonderwall – 1305M
4 (4) MARIAH CAREY – All I Want for Christmas – 1228M
5 (5) JOURNEY – Don’t Stop Believin’ – 1209M
6 (6) QUEEN – Another One Bites the Dust – 1198M
7 (9) NIRVANA – Smells Like Teen Spirit – 1178M
8 (8) AHA – Take On Me – 1159M
9 (7) TOTO – Africa – 1127M
10 (11) THE EAGLES – Hotel California – 1094M
11 (10) GUNS N ROSES – Sweet Child O Mine – 1094M
12 (15) THE POLICE – Every Breath You Take – 1066M
13 (12) EARTH, WIND & FIRE – September – 1065M
14 (13) QUEEN/BOWIE – Under Pressure – 1055M
15 (14) MICHAEL JACKSON – Billie Jean – 1032M
16 (17) AC/DC – Back In Black – 952M
17 (18) AC/DC – Highway To Hell – 915M
18 (36) FLEETWOOD MAC – Dreams – 905M
19 (19) WHAM – Last Christmas – 889M
20 (21) BACKSTREET BOYS – I Want It That Way – 879M
21 (24) BON JOVI – Livin’ On A Prayer – 879M
22 (26) AC/DC – Thunderstruck – 874M
23 (16) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Under the Bridge – 871M
24 (22) LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet Home Alabama – 868M
25 (20) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Californication – 858M
26 (23) QUEEN – We Will Rock You – 853M
27 (25) GOO GOO DOLLS – Iris – 850M
28 (28) RADIOHEAD – Creep – 826M
29 (27) EURYTHMICS – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – 825M
30 (49) COOLIO – Gangsta’s Paradise – 819M
31 (31) METALLICA – Enter Sandman – 809M
32 (29) DR. DRE – Still DRE – 799M
33 (34) NIRVANA – Come As You Are – 793M
34 (32) SURVIVOR – Eye of the Tiger – 788M
35 (39) THE BEATLES – Here Comes the Sun – 761M
36 (38) R.E.M. – Losing My Religion – 758M
37 (35) MARVIN GAYE – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – 754M
38 (30) SMASH MOUTH – All Star – 749M
39 (37) METALLICA – Nothing Else Matters – 747M
40 (41) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Have You Ever Seen the Rain – 740M
41 (44) WHITNEY HOUSTON – I Wanna Dance With Somebody – 738M
42 (40) QUEEN – I Want to Break Free – 737M
43 (46) BRYAN ADAMS – Summer of ’69 – 737M
44 (42) DIRE STRAITS – Sultans of Swing – 734M
45 (33) BOB MARLEY – Is This Love – 733M
46 (47) THE CRANBERRIES – Zombie – 733M
47 (48) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Fortunate Son – 719M
48 (43) GUNS N ROSES – Welcome To the Jungle – 716M
49 (45) FOO FIGHTERS – Everlong – 700M
50 (-) TEARS FOR FEARS – Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 684M
51 (53) GUNS N ROSES – Paradise City – 676M
52 (51) SPICE GIRLS – Wannabe – 676M
53 (-) BEE GEES – Stayin’ Alive – 673M
54 (57) ROLLING STONES – Paint It Black – 671M
55 (50) AEROSMITH – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – 669M
56 (64) ELTON JOHN – Rocket Man – 664M
57 (55) LED ZEPPELIN – Stairway to Heaven – 664M
58 (54) THE VERVE – Bitterswet Symphony – 663M
59 (58) U2 – With Or Without You – 659M
60 (-) AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long – 652M
61 (56) QUEEN – Somebody To Love – 650M
Dylan 81 years and T-bone Burnette, 74 years, two meter long music genius, discussed state of music today: When you sell one million songs and get one dollar, let's do it other way. I will sell one piece and i get one million dollars. Yesterday they got 1,77 million dollars for one Ďylan song, "Blowin in the wind". Let's make art, just one piece, not making music for masses.
heyyy what where is starboy in the list it has more than 1.9 billion streams you removed starboy???
Guns N' Roses are missing from the ''Spotify's most followed artists'' page.
The statistics are so wrong that someone has to fix it or delete the whole website altogether.
I'm still wondering why Watermelon Sugar doesn't have a cover art in this chart?
Hi, just a quick question & maybe I'm not understanding something: under https://chartmasters.org/spotify-most-streamed-albums/ (date 1st,aug,22) that ed sheeran has the most spotify streamed album (÷ (Deluxe)) with over 12 billion streams. This includes the single "shape of you", which "only" has over 3 billion streams. How would you explain the difference in numbers? If it were counted equally, this difference shouldn't be in this direction? It would make more sense if the single was more streamed then the album, but the other way around does not make sense to me? But I guess I'm not seeing/thinking of something 🙂
How the heck a single can be more streamed than an album that includes this single? You are absolutely don't get how it works, do you?
Read my comment again & think hard! And maybe while you’re at it- get an attitude check..
That's because the "most streamed albums" list isn't actually about the most streamed albums, Ed Sheeran's ÷ has a few songs with only 200 million streams but adding every song totals 12 billion.
Just checking the top 30 albums on the list, I only found two albums whose least streamed song is over 200m : Olivia Rodrigo's Sour (202m) and Billie Eilish's Dont Smile At Me (200m). ÷'s least streamed song is at 193m.
I have done it and... your comment is still absolutely meaningless))) not to mention that I hate when people use 'then' instead of 'than' lol. Has my attitude been checked?
