“Happy New Year to ‘Blinding lights’, the most streamed song of all time,” The Weeknd himself wrote on his social media. This milestone has also been confirmed by the platform itself in another ‘tweet, adding that “a new record accompanies the new year.”
Ed Sheeran had until now the record with 3,334,842,340 views on the platform -also as of January 5, 2023-. ‘Blinding Lights’ has reached several records, such as in 2020, when it was the most listened to song globally, with more than 1.5 billion listeners.