By Lars Brandle: 02/29/2024
Tones And I enters the history books once more, as the Australian artist's monster hit "Dance Monkey" ticks past 3 billion streams on spotify.
With that feat, Tones (real name: Toni Watson) becomes the first female artist to achieve that streaming milestone.
Since its commercial launch in 2008, Spotify has entered just eight song into the three billion streams club; with the exception of "Dance Monkey," all of them are recorded by male artist from North America or the United Kingdom.
At the top of the tree is the Weekend's "Blinding Lights" (4.092 billion streams), ahead of Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" (3.796 billion) and Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" (3.239 billion), repectively.
Since "Dance Monkey" dropped in May 2019, nothing has been quite the same. The single logged 24 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, an all-time record, and spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Official U.K Singles Chart, a record for a solo female artist.
Konstantin Kersting produced and mixed the song, which hit No. 1 in more than 30 countries around the world.
Tones is currently opening for Pink's Summer Carnival Stadium Tour of Australia which, too, should bust records. When it completes its final show in late March, the trek, produced by Live Nation, is expected to pass 900,000 ticket sales for Austalia and New Zealand, a box-office record for a solo female artist.
