The most listened to trace on Spotify is ‘finest pop tune of the last decade’ | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Spotify’s most listened to trace has been hailed because the “best pop song of the decade” by followers.

Blinding Lights by The Weeknd (also referred to as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) is now probably the most listened to tune on the music streaming platform, overtaking Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You.

The tune first hit the charts upon its launch in 2019 previous to the album it holds place on, After Hours, being launched on March 20, 2020.

It’s well timed launch coincided with the start of the the UK’s and lots of different nations’ first Covid-19 lockdown.

Blinding Lights grew large reputation by way of a development that concerned a dance routine circulating TikTok, which was additionally rising in reputation on the time. Many folks took to the app to indicate off their finest dance strikes to the catchy tune.

The Weeknd’s tune was an enormous business success, topping the report charts in over 40 nations, together with his native Canada, subsequently it’s his most profitable single up to now. It has since turn out to be the tune with probably the most weeks spent within the prime 5 and prime 10 after it was the primary tune to stay within the prime ten for a complete yr.

For a brief time period Blinding Lights was the longest-charting tune in historical past, remaining on it for a complete of 90 weeks.

One reddit person described the tune because the “best pop song of the decade” with one other including “I love this song”.

“10/10 Abel did not just bring back the sound of the 80s, but made a huge timeless hit that is catchy. You just can’t hate this song,” one other person added.

Billboard named Blinding Lights as the highest tune of the century.

Gray News stated: “It’s official: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd is the song of the century. On Friday, Billboard crowned the smash hit as the No. 1 song of the 21st century.”