Blinding Lights
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Music The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" has become the first song to reach 5 billion Spotify streams, extending its lead for the most streamed song.
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Music The Weeknd explains that his hit single "Blinding Lights" is actually about drunk driving and being blinded by the traffic lights, clarifying that he does not promote driving under the influence.
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Music The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" is the biggest song in the history of the Hot 100, so it is not surprising that it took this honor as well.
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Gram The Weeknd is a little grossed out.
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Music The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" is now the most-streamed song on Spotify.
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Music Videos The Weeknd drops a highly-stylized video for "Blinding Lights."
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Numbers The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" becomes the biggest #1 Hot 100 song of all time.
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Pop Culture Despite Abel Tesfaye's fears, the second single from his "After Hours" album is now certified diamond by the RIAA.
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Music The Weeknd shares the "After Hours" album cover and announces that its title track will arrive later tonight.
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Music The Weeknd teased new music after accepting the award for Top Hot 100 Song at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards.
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Numbers The Weeknd earns an incredible honor after his show-stealing Super Bowl performance.
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Numbers The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" is the first song to ever spend a full year in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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Numbers Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, Juice WRLD, Drake, and others all made Spotify's year-end Wrapped lists.
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Numbers The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" breaks yet another record, solidifying itself as one of the biggest songs in modern history.
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Numbers The Weeknd celebrates spending the last year on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Blinding Lights", which remains in the Top 10 for its forty-first week.
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Numbers Following The Weeknd's major Grammy snub, his loyal fanbase collectively rallied to stream "Blinding Lights" in an act of defiance.
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Numbers The Weeknd breaks the all-time record for the most weeks spent in the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 with "Blinding Lights."
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Numbers The Weeknd thanks his fans after "Blinding Lights" spends a full year in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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