An elite group of songs.
Despite some competition from Apple Music, there’s no doubt that Spotify has remained the top streaming platform since its official launch in the United States in July 2011. With over 696 million monthly active users, 276 million of whom pay for premium, the platform has become nothing short of a staple in terms of music consumption nowadays. Boasting over 100 million songs available to be streamed right now (excluding Garth Brooks’ entire discography, of course), Spotify has nearly every notable song ever released over the past century.
Out of all the songs throughout the history of music, a little over 1,200 tracks have passed the elusive one billion-stream threshold on the platform. Out of those 1,200+ songs, until today, only 16 of those fall under the country category.
While some of these tracks can hardly be considered country, including the likes of Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber’s “10,000 Hours,” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant To Be,” you do have some actual quality songs present on the list. These, of course, include Zach Bryan’s “Something in the Orange” and “I Remember Everything,” Luke Combs’ “Beautiful Crazy” and “When It Rains It Pours” and Chris Stapleton’s double-diamond hit, “Tennessee Whiskey.”
Unsurprisingly, Morgan Wallen dominates this list, owning 25% (4/16) of the tracks with “Whiskey Glasses,” “Last Night,” “Wasted On You” and his collaboration with Post Malone, “I Had Some Help.” Additionally, he is the only country artist to score more than two tracks with over one billion streams.
Second place is actually a three-way tie between the likes of Zach Bryan, Luke Combs and Taylor Swift, who all have two each. The country singer turned pop star snagged two with her early hit, “Love Story,” as well as 2021 ‘Taylor’s Version’ re-recording of “You Belong With Me.”
As for recent additions to the list, Wallen crossed the threshold earlier this week with the aforementioned “Wasted On You.” Before that, Darius Rucker made his first entry with his cover of Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel,” and Sam Hunt saw his first with his nauseating bro-country anthem, “Body Like a Backroad.”
Without further ado, here are the select few country songs with over 1 billion streams on Spotify.
“Something in the Orange” – Zach Bryan
Streams: 1,599,240,266
Release Date: April 22, 2022
Streams Per Day: 1,052,132
“Last Night” – Morgan Wallen
Streams: 1,505,537,370
Release Date: January 31, 2023
Streams Per Day: 1,219,059
“Tennessee Whiskey” – Chris Stapleton
Streams: 1,512,610,960
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Streams Per Day: 371,558
“Beautiful Crazy” – Luke Combs
Streams: 1,167,450,499
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Streams Per Day: 423,757
“When It Rains It Pours” – Luke Combs
Streams: 1,263,510,831
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Streams Per Day: 384,396
“I Remember Everything” – Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves
Streams: 1,451,619,585
Release Date: September 8, 2023
Streams Per Day: 1,431,578
“Love Story” – Taylor Swift
Streams: 1,144,848,098
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Streams Per Day: 176,510
“I Had Some Help” – Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
Streams: 1,516,804,093
Release Date: May 10, 2024
Streams Per Day: 1,969,875
“Whiskey Glasses” – Morgan Wallen
Streams: 1,169,334,278
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Streams Per Day: 405,878
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey
Streams: 1,720,520,323
Release Date: April 12, 2024
Streams Per Day: 2,156,041
“Meant To Be” – Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
Streams: 1,572,341,280
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Streams Per Day: 497,576
“10,000 Hours” – Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber
Streams: 1,235,527,069
Release Date: October 4, 2019
Streams Per Day: 504,297
“You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)” – Taylor Swift
Streams: 1,112,235,560
Release Date: April 9, 2021
Streams Per Day: 586,313
“Body Like a Backroad” – Sam Hunt
Streams: 1,019,433,990
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Streams Per Day: 297,732
“Wagon Wheel” – Darius Rucker
Streams: 1,026,108,446
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Streams Per Day: 208,941
“Wasted On You” – Morgan Wallen
Streams: 1,000,770,056
Release Date: March 7, 2022
Streams Per Day: 639,470
