‘Die with a Smile’, the splendid ballad by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars that we highlight as one of the 15 best songs of 2024, has just exceeded the 3,000 million streams in Spotify. It is the song that has most quickly got there. They have been about 410 days of success, half of which (201), have passed them at number 1 of the Swedish platform, establishing a historical record.
For a few weeks, ‘Die with A Smile’ is also the most popular song in both Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, always according to Spotify. As for her, she surpasses Ballad ‘Shallow’, which approaches 2,900 million, being also a duet, in that case with actor Bradley Cooper. Logically, all Bradley Cooper’s most listened songs belong to the soundtrack of ‘A Star Is Born’. If someone asks, Cooper has about 15 million monthly listeners.
Lady Gaga has 102 million and is the 3rd most listened to worldwide at this time. His great poperos classics (‘Poker Face’, ‘Just dance’, ‘Bad Romance’) will reach the 2,000 million streams in coming months, but we must insist on the global acceptance of their ballads, which transcend all the strata of society, young and not so young. In fact, ‘Always Remember Us This Way’ will also achieve the 2,000 milestone in approximately one year.
Interestingly, ballads do not look like the favorites of their most faithful followers, at least between our audience and our commentators and foreros. ‘Die with a Smile’ is one of the few singles of Gaga who has failed to be once voted for the week in Jenesaispop. ‘Abracadabra’, which has 500 million streams, got it for no less than 6 weeks. It is clearly one of your (and our) favorite songs of 2025.
Bruno Mars’s global numbers are even better: he is the 2nd most ear artist in the world, only behind The Weeknd. That is because the good acceptance of ‘Die with a Smile’ must be added that of ‘Apt.’ With Rosé. This other theme exceeds 2,000 million streams.
But Bruno has also benefited from Gaga: both have benefited each other. ‘Die With a Smile’ has just overcome the streams of ‘Just the way you are’, ‘Locked out of heaven’, ‘When I was your man’ and ‘That’s What I Like’, all of them about to exceed 3,000 million streams. However, it has been ‘Die with a Smile’ the one who first has exceeded that border, and also remains very strong on the lists.
How many songs today exceed 3,000 million streams in Spotify? Because with this they are exactly 33. ‘Binding Lights’ continues in number 1 of that list with more than 5,000 million streams. If you continue to grow at this rate of 3 million daily, ‘Die with a Smile’ is easy to reach the top 20 or even higher in a few months.
And it is that in the Global Top of Spotify today we still find many of its competitors, such as ‘Yellow’ of Coldplay or ‘I Wanna Be Yours’ by Arctic Monkeys. But there are other songs that have already been in a fallen layer, such as ‘Dance Monkey’ or ‘Heat Waves’.
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