The Killers‘ ‘Mr Brightside’ has been revealed because the UK’s most streamed music in Spotify historical past.

To have fun the app’s fifteenth anniversary, Music Week reported that Spotify have made an inventory of the largest artists and tracks since its launch in October 2008. ‘Mr Brightside’ (launched September 29, 2003) has over 1.8 billion streams globally as of October 9, 2023. Spotify didn’t launch the variety of UK-only streams.

‘Mr Brightside’ beforehand broke UK chart information in 2021 by spending 260 non-consecutive weeks within the Prime 100 of the UK’s singles chart. As of October 10, that determine has risen to a whopping 382 weeks – almost seven years.

It was launched because the lead single to The Killers’ debut album ‘Sizzling Fuss‘, and solely reached quantity ten as its highest chart place. However because of its unusually devoted legacy, ‘Mr Brightside’ has loved constant consumption charges which have contributed to its astonishing streaming numbers.

Different high streamed tracks included Vance Pleasure‘s ‘Riptide’ at quantity six and Arctic Monkeys‘ ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ at quantity 7.

Spotify additionally unveiled probably the most streamed UK artists globally on Spotify over the past 15 years. Ed Sheeran took the crown as probably the most streamed male artist. His music ‘Form of You’ was revealed to be probably the most streamed UK observe globally (3.6 billion streams as of October 11).

In the meantime, Dua Lipa reigned as probably the most streamed feminine artist. Her hits ‘Don’t Begin Now’ and ‘New Guidelines’ had been additionally discovered within the Prime 15 tracks made by UK artists of all time on the platform.

Flowers has beforehand stated he didn’t suppose ‘Mr Brightside’ would change into a success if launched right this moment, citing modifications within the music trade. NME author Mark Beaumont additionally spoke to The Killers not too long ago about how they wrote the sleeper hit in lead guitarist Dave Keuning’s closet.

In different information, The Killers launched a brand new standalone single final August, ‘Your Aspect Of City’. Although the band instructed NME in 2022 that they had been set to launch an album quickly, Flowers revealed in a current interview that he had scrapped the report: “Midway by way of recording I realised, ‘I can’t do that,’” Flowers stated, including: “This isn’t the type of report… I believe this would be the… I don’t suppose you’ll see us making such a music any extra.”

He added: “That is the disaster I’m in. The Killers are my id and our songs fill the seats, however I’m extra fulfilled making music like [2021 album] ‘Stress Machine’.