DJ Khaled‘s guitar laced hit “Wild Thoughts” featuring Barbadian beauty Rihanna and Byron Tiller has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. It is Khaled and Tiller’s second song to reach the milestone and Rihanna’s 11th.
This latest achievement makes Rihanna the first woman to have 11 songs surpassing 1 billion streams on the platform. Released on June 16, 2017, as the third single from Khaled’s tenth studio album, “Grateful.”
The Latin-Hip Hop percussion fused song pays homage to the 1999 classic hit, “Maria Maria” by Mexican born singer Carlos Santana who faced media criticism for his stance against gender identity change recently.
Commercially, the song climbed to the number one on the UK Singles Chart, marking Khaled’s second and Rihanna’s ninth chart-topper in the UK. It also achieved chart success in Australia and Canada, where it peaked at number two. In the U.S., “Wild Thoughts” debuted at No. 4 then peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, securing Rihanna’s 31st top-ten hit, Khaled’s third, and Tiller’s first.
The accompanying music video for “Wild Thoughts” directed by Colin Tilley and shot on location in Miami’s vibrant Little Haiti, has surpassed 1.1 billion streams on YouTube. It earned three MTV Video Music Awards nominations for : Video of the Year, Best Collaboration, and Best Art Direction.
Rihanna performed “Wild Thoughts” at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards and at the Super Bowl LVII halftime show in February.
In July the Fenty Beauty Queen first made history as the first woman to have 10 songs reach one billion streams on Spotify She has posted the accomplishment Instagram, “Bad Gal billi… wit no new album,” she captioned the post. “Lemme talk my sh*t.”
Spotify also confirmed the news on its own Instagram saying, writing: “NOW Slaying: On July 1, Rihanna became the first female artist to have 10 songs reach 1 billion streams in Spotify history.
The other songs by Rihanna that have reached the billions club include her solo tracks “Diamonds,” “Love On The Brain,” and “Needed Me,” as well as the collaborations “Stay (featuring Mikky Ekko),” “We Found Love” and “This Is What You Came For,” with Calvin Harris, “Four Five Seconds” with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, “Work,” featuring Drake, “Umbrella” with Jay Z and Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie.”
