Spotify Welcomes Fun.’s ‘We Are Young (Feat. Janelle Monae)’ to the Billion Streams Club
More than a years following its launch, Fun.‘s 2011 solitary “We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe)” has actually struck one billion streams on Spotify, the system verified on Monday (Sept. 18).
“[Forever] We Are Young. @OurNameIsFun and @janellemonae’s youth anthem is the newest entry in the #BillionsClub canon,” the music streaming platform tweeted.
The accomplishment is the most recent for the track. In August 2022, YouTube verified that the remarkable, slow-motion video for “We Are Young” struck the one billion sights mark on its system.
“We Are Young” was launched as the very first solitary from Fun.’s student workshop cd, Some Nights, on Sept. 20, 2011. The track made its launching on the Billboard Hot 100 on Dec. 24 that year, and also hit No. 1 o the list below year on March 17-dated graph. The track invested an overall of 42 weeks on the all-genre tally, with 6 weeks up. “We Are Young” is Fun.’s just No. 1 appeal the Hot 100, though the team obtained relatively close with follow-up solitary “Some Nights” (No. 3, 56 weeks).
In enhancement to being Fun.’s trademark and also most popular track, the track gained Monáe her very first graph access on the Hot 100 graph. The track stays her only No. 1 track on the tally, along with her only leading 10 and also leading 40 hit.
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