Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' Becomes First Song to Reach 3 Billion Spotify Streams
While the songs with a billion-plus streams aren’t that uncommon — Spotify’s “Billions Club” playlist has more than 190 songs, including several others from Sheeran — three billion is a first.
Sheeran clearly saw the milestone coming, as he quickly posted a video on Instagram talking about it.In the video, Sheeran says he couldn’t be more “chuffed” about the news, calling it, “absolutely insane,” before discussing the origin of the song. “ [‘Shape Of You’] Wasn’t really meant to make the album,” he says, “but when I finished making the song, Ben Cook, from my label, said it had to be a single – but I wanted ‘Castle on the Hill’ to be the single.
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