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 identify: Toni Watson) turns into the primary feminine artist to attain that streaming milestone.

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

At the highest of the tree is The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (4.092 billion streams), forward of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (3.796 billion) and Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” (3.239 billion), respectively.

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

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

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

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

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

Tones is presently opening for Pink’s Summer Carnival stadium tour of Australia which, too, ought to bust data. When it completes its last present in late March, the trek, produced by Live Nation, is predicted to go 900,000 ticket gross sales for Australia and New Zealand, a box-office report 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 12 months and the followup to 2021’s Welcome to the Madhouse, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.