As of July 2023, "Blinding Lights" (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the most-streamed song of all time on Spotify, while "Dance Monkey" (2019) by Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I is the most-streamed song by a female artist.
It was never a hit single and got almost no play on Top 40 radio. There's even a dispute over the exact title. Yet “It's a Small World,” also known as “It's a Small, Small World” and “It's a Small World (After All),” is very likely the most played song in music history — nearly 50 million times.
With the dazzling 3,332 billion streams, The Weeknd surpassed Ed Sheraans' “Shape of You” in January 2023. Ed Sheeran's “Shape of You” held the record for the most streamed song for over 5 years!
"Old Town Road" holds the record for the longest stretch at No. 1 with 19 weeks. It also became the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.
However, the record for the shortest song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart happened in 1960. That honor was established by Maurice & the Zodiacs with their doo-wop classic “Stay" at just 1 minute and 38 seconds.
The use of her song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” in the series has shot it up the charts in a way it didn't even when the song was released in 1985! In fact, it's the oldest song to EVER reach No.
The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of July 2023, Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed artist of all time on Spotify, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed female artist.
The Weeknd is the reigning king of Spotify, with his track racking up more than 3.4 billion views on the platform.
Spotify remains in the top spot with a 31% share in 2021, though the streaming service is down from 33% in 2020. Amazon Music and Tencent Music each take a 13% market share, while YouTube Music accounts for 8% of global subscriptions.
"Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd is the most-streamed song on Spotify, with over 3.7 billion streams.
In addition to smashing Spotify's 24-hour streaming record, Swift also broke new ground for the most streamed artist on Spotify in one day (reportedly 228 million). Drake's Certified Lover Boy (2021; 153,441,565 streams), was the album dethroned by Swift's Midnights as the most streamed in 24 hours on Spotify.
Fart, as it turns out, is one of the oldest rude words we have in the language: Its first record pops up in roughly 1250, meaning that if you were to travel 800 years back in time just to let one rip, everyone would at least be able to agree upon what that should be called.
According to maths, the ultimate swearword is 'banger' – or 'ber' for short. The answer may be a little disappointing for those expecting something coarser. “I think neither is as satisfying as a 'f*ck' when you've stubbed your toe, or a 'sh*t' when you realise you've forgotten your parent's birthday.
If you're wondering whether there actually are words that songwriters continually resort to, it won't take you long to hit on the word “love.” I have no idea how many songs contain that word, but I'm ready to bet they number in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions! Everybody's got looooooove!
Abel Tesfaye, more commonly known as The Weeknd, is statistically the most popular musician on the planet, and no one else even comes close. The 33-year-old Canadian singer's success has seen him set two new Guinness World Records titles: Most monthly listeners on Spotify – 111.4 million (as of 20 March 2023)
It's official: The Weeknd is statistically the most popular artist in the world according to Guinness World Records.
Spotify pays artists between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream on average. That works out as an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that's 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify.
The youngest artist to hit number one on the Hot 100 is Stevie Wonder in 1963 with ” Fingertips Pt. 2″ at the age of 13.
“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world's earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey.
American popstar Miley Cyrus has beaten the record made jointly by Harry Styles' 'As It Was' and Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI's 'Stay' by becoming the fastest ever artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify with her hit 'Flowers'.
On October 14th, 2022, Drake became the first artist in the world to reach 50 billion streams on Spotify. Celebrating the mind-blowing record in typical Drake fashion (over-the-top and extravagant), the Toronto-based rapper teamed up with soccer team FC Barcelona to celebrate.
The correct answer is 28. Kumar Sanu is the world record holder for recording 28 songs in a single day. Kumar Sanu made this record in 1993 when he recorded 28 songs in a single day.