base talk Bigger: Blinding Lights vs Stay vs As It Was

[Blue Skies]

The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights > Harry Styles’s As It Was > Alessia Cara’s Stay

[Montreal]

1 hour ago, slas said:

Top 5 worldwide hits that peaked in the 2020s so far imo, is:

 

1. Blinding Lights

2. As It Was

3. Stay

4. Save Your Tears

5. Levitating

 

Honorable mentions: Dance Monkey, Heat Waves, Bad Habits, good 4 u, Easy On Me, Don't Start Now

Others that were a bit too US-local: The Box, Rockstar

Could make the top 5 but needs more time: Flowers

Save Your Tears is bigger than STAY. its already outstreaming (total and daily streams) it on spotify and has almost 2B views on Youtube as well

[slimfem]

I can honestly say Stay by Rihanna is what came to my mind first, I don't even remember what the one you're referencing sounds like lol, but I don't listen to a lot of radio.

 

OT: Blinding Lights, AIW is a cute song with a lot of reply value but it's just good background noise compared to BL. BL encompasses you into its world.

[Papi Juancho]

BL > Stay > AIW

[naval23]

Blinding Lights made top 3 year end two years in a row in like 20+ countries - the success was otherworldly 

[Thecollegedropout]

Blinding Lights is like the biggest song of the millennium. Easily that one.

[bieberstan]

stay a true global success. the other 2 please
 

[pride4jc1222]

23 hours ago, ariananext said:

Blinding Lights > Stay > As It Was

 

Stay and As It Was are pretty close imo. Blinding Lights is the biggest one for sure. 

This is the correct answer. Blinding Lights is definitively the biggest song of its time. You cannot say the same about Stay and As It Was. I hope Billboard takes this into consideration when doing the next all-time list. I hope Uptown Funk (another song that was the biggest of its time) keeps its rank above Stay and AIW.

[Gui Blackout]

BL > AIW > Stay 

[Kimbra]

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AIW is on track to be the most streamed song of all time, it's not surprising that it eclipsed everything else like Blinding Lights did with the After Hours era. LNT will likely finish this year around the 800-900m mark too.

AIW is coming to surpass according to Harry's stans.