I don’t find out about you, however each time I consider this contemporary age of streaming, I positive as shit don’t take into consideration old fashioned exhausting rock and glam steel as being a part of that equation. It’s not that stuff like this isn’t streamed—clearly it’s, contemplating the title of this damed article—however I nonetheless affiliate and lengthy for the times once we may solely take heed to stuff like this on tapes or 8-traks or regardless of the hell your mother and father most likely used to partake within the music of the time. However now, Van Halen has taken streaming and primarily made it their bitch, as a result of they’ve transcended a traditional quantity of stats by hitting one billion streams on Spotify with their basic single “Leap.”
The band’s drummer and partial namesake, Alex Van Halen, excitedly posted on Instagram: “Due to all of the followers for listening!”
Apparently, there’s one thing known as the Billions Membership. It’s a Spotify playlist that first began in 2020, together with—you guessed it, tracks which have hit one billion streams or extra. When you make the playlist, you get some type of Billions Membership plaque.
Van Halen aren’t the one previous heads who made the checklist. They’re amongst Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” Weapons N’ Roses’ “Paradise Metropolis,” and three Metallica singles: “Nothing Else Issues”, “Enter Sandman” and “Grasp Of Puppets.” Of considerably newer songs, Papa Roach’s lyrically incidental emo observe “Final Resort,” and Evanescence’s “Convey Me to Life.”
“Leap” was Van Halen’s largest hit. Coming off their album 1984, it spent 5 weeks on the prime of the U.S. Billboard Sizzling 100 chart. The Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and Museum additionally ranks it as one of many “500 Songs That Formed Rock and Roll.”
Congrats, guys. Now, I’ll proceed to have this tune caught in my head for the following one billion years.
