BILLIONS CLUB: Dua Lipa (7/372)

BILLIONS CLUB

Dua Lipa (7/372)

35/372= 9.4%

    Time to get some women on the board!  My boo is all reminding me about gender equity issues and the Billions Club is no exception.  Three entries already and they are all white, English speaking men.  What about women???  I thought FOR SURE that Rihanna would have more entries than any other woman on this list but it is in fact Dua Lipa, who outpoints Rihanna by one song.    Dua Lipa's presence is powered by the strength of the singles from her 2020 LP, Future Nostalgia which has three separate billion stream tracks:  Don't Start Now (2 billion), Break My Heart (1 billion) and the Levitating remix featuring Lil Baby (1.6 billion).  The non remix version of Levitating has 700 million plays in its own right.

   Break My Heart only crossed the line a couple weeks ago, the Levitating remix crossed in October of 2021 and Don't Start Now was a charter member from July 2021.  Two of her songs from her self titled debut record in 2017 were charter members of the Billions Club,  IDGAF and New Rules, which is closing in on two billion streams (1.8 billion).

   Her other two Billions Club tracks are collabos- one with Calvin Harris and the Cold Cold Heart remix she did with Elton John.  Like three of the four other artists I've discussed so far, Dua Lipa has no other songs that are close to crossing the billion stream threshold. 

    I'm familiar with a few of these songs.  I've listened to Levitating- the non remix version- dozens of time and the Elton John Cold Cold Heart song was a playlist fixture for six months last year.   I would imagine that she is hard at work in the hit factory working on a new billion streamer and a bunch of tracks to fill out her next record.