Blinding Lights

"Blinding Lights" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released on November 29, 2019, through XO and Republic Records, as the second single from his fourth studio album, After Hours (2020). The universally acclaimed song was written alongside Swedish musicians Max Martin & Oscar Holter, who produced it with the Weeknd, and fellow Canadian musicians Belly and DaHeala. In the United States, "Blinding Lights" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four non-consecutive weeks, and went on to set new records as the song with most weeks spent in the top 5 and top 10, as well as the first song to hold a spot in the top 10 on the chart for an entire year. It became the longest charting song by a solo artist on the Hot 100 of all-time, spending 90 weeks on the chart, before being surpassed by "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals. The song finished 2020 as the year's top Billboard Hot 100 song. The song also peaked at number one in the Weeknd's native Canada, giving the Weeknd his fifth Canadian Hot 100 chart-topper; it also topped the record charts in the United Kingdom and 40 other countries. On November 23, 2021, it was ranked as the greatest Hot 100 song in Billboard history. On April 5, 2022, it was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling more than ten million copies in the United States. On December 31, 2022, the song overtook Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" to become the most streamed song on Spotify. "Blinding Lights" was the best-selling global single of 2020, earning 2.72 billion subscription stream equivalents globally, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), making it the Weeknd's most successful single worldwide to date. It was also the seventh best-selling global single of 2021 with 1.61 billion subscription stream equivalents. On Spotify, it was the most-streamed song of 2020 with nearly 1.6 billion streams, and became the most streamed song of all time on the platform on January 1, 2023. "Blinding Lights" has three official remixes: one by electronic band Chromatics, one by electronic dance music group Major Lazer, and one featuring singer-songwriter Rosalía.