Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" is no longer Spotify's Most-Streamed Song of All Time.
Spotify officially announced that Sheeran's 2017 hit song reached another feat by becoming the most streamed song in the platform's history. A year later, a new artist scored the title from him.
The Weeknd shared a post from Blinding Lights Updates' Twitter account, showing that the song officially surpassed Sheeran's "Shape of You" by 918,000 filtered streams before the new year.
The new No. 1 has 3.334 million streams, outshining "Shape of You" record of 3.332 million.
The Canadian singer released the second single off his studio album, "After Hours," on Nov. 29, 2019. The song peaked on Canadian Hot 100 and became the longest charting song by a solo artist on Billboard Hot 100 after spending 90 weeks on the chart.
"Blinding Lights" ultimately became the most successful single the singer ever released to date. In addition, the song earned a 2.72 billion subscription streams, leading it to become the best-performing global single in 2020.
From 2020 to 2021, The Weeknd brought home several accolades through the song, including Danish Music Awards' International Hit of the year, LOS40 Music Awards' Best International Video, MTV Video Music Awards' Video of the Year and Best R&B; Billboard Music Awards' Top 100 Song, Top Radio Song, and Top R&B Song; Juno Awards' Single of the Year, and SOCAN Awards' Pop Music Award and International Song Award.
The Weeknd Makes It to Rolling Stone's Greatest Singers of All Time List
Aside from the recent Spotify feat, The Weeknd set a new record by becoming one out of four male artists who debuted in the 21st century to make it to Rolling Stone's Greatest Singers of All Time.
The "Die for You" hitmaker joins BTS Jungkook, Burna Boy, and Frank Ocean on the list.
The magazine, however, caused a stir with its list as fans questioned the absence of other singers, including Celine Dion.
"Talent is impressive; genius is transcendent. Sure, many of the people here were born with massive pipes, perfect pitch, and boundless range. Others have rougher, stranger, or more delicate instruments," it explained.
The Top 20 singers on the list are Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, Mariah Carey, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Otis Redding, Al Green, Little Richard, John Lennon, Patsy Cline, Freddie Mercury, Bob Dylan, Prince, Elvis Presley, Celia Cruz, Frank Sinatra, and Marvin Gaye.
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