The 8 metal bands that joined Spotify’s ‘Billion Club’

It is not easy to put a song in Spotify’s so -called “Billion Club”. The title is given to artists and bands who can accumulate 1 billion reproductions in one of their songs.

There are 1,045 tracks cataloged as members of such a club. Only 15 of them belong to the metal. More specifically, eight groups were responsible for the mentioned number of tracks.

One of them, Linkin Park, is the owner of five songs. “In The End”, “Numb”, “What’s What Done”, “One Step Closer” and “FAINT” reached the surprising number – besides the version “Numb/Encore”with the rapper Jay-zthat does not enter this account.

Check out the list with all eight metal bands that have at least one song with over 1 billion reproductions on Spotify. Artists and groups normally classified as hard rock, such as LED ZEPPELIN and AC/DCdid not enter the survey.

The Metal Bands of the Spotify Billion Club

Black Sabbath
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 19,487,517
Music at the “Billion Club” + number of streams from the track: “Paranoid” (1,464,362,669)

Evanescence
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 21,489,793
Music at the “Billion Club” + number of streams from the track: “Bring Me to Life” (1,645,693,396)

Linkin Park
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 51,672,304
Songs at the “Billion Club” + number of track streams: “In the End” (2,787,160,283), “Numb” (2,426,427,145), “What I’m Done” (1,198,239,541), “FAINT” (1,108,723,877) and “One Step Closer” (1,053,449,747)

Metallic
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 29,718,735
Songs at the “Billion Club” + number of track streams: “Enter Sandman” (1,836,910,869), “Nothing Else Matters” (1,471,205,525) and “Master of Puppets” (1,095,557,667)

Pope Roach
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 13,869,204
Music at the “Billion Club” + number of streams from the track: “Last Resort” (1,422,762,476)

Rage Against The Machine
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 10,412,861
Music at the “Billion Club” + number of streams from the track: “Killing in the Name” (1,127,067,880)

Slipknot
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 14,816,801
Music at the “Billion Club” + number of streams from the track: “Duality” (1,014,660,561)

system of a Down
Current number of band monthly listeners in Spotify: 24.288.218
Songs at the Billion Club + Number of Streams of the Track: “Chop Suey!” (1,793,109,190) and “toxicity” (1,344,424,826)

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• Black Sabbath

• Evanescence

• heavy metal

• Linkin Park

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• Metallic

• Pope Roach

• Rage Against The Machine

• Slipknot

• Spotify

• system of a Down