Tones And I’s ‘Dance Monkey’ Passes 3 Billion Streams on Spotify

Tones And I enters the historical past books as soon as extra, because the Australian artist’s monster hit “Dance Monkey” ticks previous 3 billion streams on Spotify.

With that feat, Tones (actual title: Toni Watson) turns into the primary feminine artist to attain that streaming milestone.

Since its industrial launch in 2008, Spotify has entered simply eight songs into the three billion streams membership; except “Dance Monkey,” all of them are recorded by male artists from North America or the UK.

On the prime of the tree is The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (4.092 billion streams), forward of Ed Sheeran’s “Form of You” (3.796 billion) and Lewis Capaldi’s “Somebody You Liked” (3.239 billion), respectively.

Since “Dance Monkey” dropped in Might 2019, nothing has been fairly the identical. The only logged 24 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, an all-time document, and spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Official U.Okay. Singles Chart, a document for a solo feminine artist.

Konstantin Kersting produced and blended the music, which hit No. 1 in additional than 30 nations all over the world.

Tones, a one-time busker, additionally nailed a Billboard Sizzling 100 hit with “Dance Monkey.” The second single from her debut EP The Youngsters Are Coming, “Dance Monkey” swung to No. 4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, earned the artist her first prime 10 hit on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay, Sizzling Rock & Various Songs and Dance/Combine Present Airplay charts, and Tones claimed prime spot on the Sizzling 100 Songwriters Chart.

Apple, proprietor of music recognition app Shazam, has named “Dance Monkey” because the most-Shazamed music of all time, with customers of the app figuring out the monitor greater than 44.4 million instances. And in April 2023, the official music video for “Dance Monkey” clocked two billion views on YouTube.

World streams throughout Tones’ catalog, which incorporates 2021’s “Fly Away,” which peaked at No. 11 within the U.Okay.

Tones is presently opening for Pink’s Summer season Carnival stadium tour of Australia which, too, ought to bust information. When it completes its remaining present in late March, the trek, produced by Stay Nation, is anticipated to cross 900,000 ticket gross sales for Australia and New Zealand, a box-office document for a solo feminine artist.

Earlier within the month, Tones shared the brand new single “Dreaming,” co-written with Sam Nelson of X Ambassadors and co-produced alongside Nelson and Randy Belculfine.

“Dreaming” will seem on her sophomore album, due out later this yr and the followup to 2021’s Welcome to the Madhouse, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.