A select number of songs have hit the one billion streams mark on Spotify.
Those include tunes by AC/DC (“Highway to Hell, “Back in Black,” “Thunderstruck”), Bon Jovi (“Livin’ on a Prayer”), Fleetwood Mac (“Dreams”), Journey (“Don’t Stop Believin'”), Linkin Park (“In the End” and “Numb”), Lynyrd Skynyrd (“Sweet Home Alabama”), Maneskin (“Beggin'”), Nirvana (“Smells Like Teen Spirit”), Oasis (“Wonderwall”), Panic! at the Disco (“High Hopes”), Queen (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Under Pressure”), Radiohead (“Creep”), Red Hot Chili Peppers (“Under the Bridge” and “Californication”), The Killers (“Mr. Brightside”), The Police (“Every Breath You Take”), The White Stripes (“Seven Nation Army”), and Twenty One Pilots (“Stressed Out,” “Ride” and “Heathens”)
Metallica has now been added to that list, as “Enter Sandman” recently surpassed the one billion streams mark.
The song is arguably the band’s most well-known track and appears on the their 1991 self-titled “Black Album.” It has been covered by Motörhead, Foo Fighters, Volbeat and John 5, among others.
“It was about two or three o’clock in the morning. I had just been listening to Louder Than Love, the Soundgarden album,” recalled guitarist Kirk Hammett of the origins of the song in 2017. “I heard that album, I was inspired; I picked up my guitar and out came that riff.”
“It really did sweep across the board,” said Lars Ulrich in 2020. “What’s interesting for me is I burn out on a lot of the stuff we do, but it has such staying power. A short, simple rock song.”
The band also tallied 1.6 billion streams on Spotify for 2022. Metallica commented on the achievement via social media: “You guys have outdone yourselves once again! 137 million hours of Metallica were streamed on @spotify in 2022, up by more than 20 million hours from last year. Whether you’re new to Metallica, or you’ve been listening for the past 41 years, we’d like to extend a huge ‘THANK YOU’ to the entire Metallica Family.”
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