Taylor Swift, The Weeknd set major Spotify recordsTaylor Swift, The Weeknd set major Spotify records

Taylor Swift and The Weeknd are the queen and king of Spotify.

Taylor’s upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl has become the most pre-saved album Countdown Page in Spotify history.  The page shows how many days, hours, minutes and seconds until the Oct. 3 release of the album, as well as the track listing. The previous record holder? Taylor’s 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department. 

Meanwhile, The Weeknd has set a record of his own. He already has more songs that have hit a billion streams on Spotify than any other artist — a total of 28 — but one of them has just achieved a very impressive milestone. The artist’s smash “Blinding Lights” is now the first song in Spotify history ever to hit five billion streams.

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