Rihanna’s ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ Hits 1 Billion Streams on Spotify

Rihanna“Don’t Stop the Music” is his latest single to reach one billion streams on Spotify.

“Don’t Stop the Music” is far from Rihanna’s first song to enter Spotify’s Billions Club. Last year, she became the first female artist to have 10 songs reach that milestone. Rihanna’s solo tracks to surpass one billion Spotify streams include “I needed myself” “Love in the brain“S&M”, “The Only Girl (in the World)” and “Diamonds.” Collaborations to make this record include “Work (ft. Drake)”, “Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)”, “We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris)”, “Stay (ft. Mikky Ekko)”, “FourFiveSeconds” alongside Kanye West and Paul McCartney, and “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem.

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“Don’t Stop the Music” appears on Rihanna’s third album, released in 2007. A good girl gone badwhich propelled her to a new level of fame. The record also included the hits “Umbrella,” “Shut Up and Drive” and “Hate That I Love You.”

“Don’t Stop the Music” features a sample of Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Something,” from the legendary 1970s disco hit “Soul Makossa.” The single peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 50th Grammy Awards. “Don’t Stop the Music” helped usher in a new era of dance music in the United States.

“It was a seminal record in the sense that, before that song and Justin Timberlake’s ‘SexyBack,’ dance music was virtually nonexistent in American pop,” the song’s production duo, StarGate, later said. Weekly Entertainment“People always said, ‘That four-kick bass drum pattern doesn’t work in America, it won’t work on the radio.’ And up until that point, they were right.”

Rihanna’s 2016 album ANTI recently landed at No. 55 on Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums of All Time collection.

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