First track to reach 5 billion streams on Spotify

“Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd (Canada, b. Abel Tesfaye) logged its five-billionth stream on Spotify on 31 August 2025. It reached the milestone in 5 years 275 days, having first become available for streaming on 29 November 2019 as the second single from The Weeknd’s fourth studio album, After Hours.

“Blinding Lights”, co-written and co-produced by Tesfaye, is track nine on After Hours, which was released on 20 March 2020. Four other songs on the transatlantic chart-topper – “Save Your Tears” (2.450 billion), “After Hours” (1.196 billion), “Heartless” (1.145 billion) and “In Your Eyes” (1.059 billion) – have also been inducted into Spotify’s “Billions Club”. As of 31 August 2025, The Weeknd had 28 tracks in the "Billions Club”.

His 2016 single “Starboy” (4.063 billion), was one of five tracks – including “Blinding Lights” – to have more than 4 billion streams on Spotify, as of 31 August 2025. Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (2017; 4.528 billion), Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” (2019; 4.032 billion) and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” (2022; 4.021 billion) were the others.

On YouTube as of 31 August 2025, “Blinding Lights (Official Video)” had amassed 962 million views since its premiere on 21 January 2020.