What does Billions Club mean? Eight paragraphs in and I still don’t know.
I think it means a billion views on YouTube.
Sorry, it’s one billion streams on Spotify.
“What does Billions Club mean? Eight paragraphs in and I still don’t know.”
Numerically there is a million seconds in 11 days. To reach a billion seconds it would take 31 years.
I didn’t read it either but I presumed it meant that song had been streamed 1 billion times, around the world. They have over 400 million active user accounts so it’s possible some very popular songs reach 1 billion plays worldwide. People put it on their playlists, and maybe some corporate accounts (restaurants, mall stores etc) have it in rotation too. Some people just let Spotify build a playlist or play random selections based on the songs you already played and the songs other people with similar song preferences play as well, so there’s probably a bunch of yacht rock style playlists that just add that song in.
I don’t know how much Spotify pays for each song they play, probably fractions of a penny per play but at a billion plays it comes to a lot of money. If the algorithm likes your song I suppose you make big bucks. Apparently the YMCA writer has made millions since Trump used it on the campaign trail (public play licensing fee is much more than a penny) but also other users have been playing it. Making TikTok’s and the like.