Industry body IFPI has actually introduced that the victor of 2021’s IFPI Global Digital Single Award is The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears.” It makes the Canadian celebrity the very first musician to win the honor 2 years straight, after ” Blinding Lights” took the title for 2020.
The honor identifies the successful solitary on the planet throughout the year in all electronic layouts. These consist of paid registration streaming, ad-supported systems, as well as single-track downloads as well as streams.
” It has actually been one more dazzling year for The Weeknd as well as ‘Save Your Tears’ has actually undoubtedly been just one of the globe’s most enjoyed tracks,” stated Frances Moore, Chief Executive of IFPI. “We would certainly such as to send out significant congratulations to The Weeknd as well as all of his group on winning our Global Digital Single of The Year Award for the 2nd year straight– an unbelievable success.”
” Save Your Tears,” launched in August 2020, was the 4th solitary from The Weeknd’s 4th workshop cd After Hours It got to No. 1 in the United States as well as in a host of various other nations all over the world. The track has actually been licensed platinum in 14 nations, extending 3 continents.
The tune had 2.15 billion worldwide registration stream matchings, according to the IFPI. Incredibly, “Blinding Lights” proceeded its appeal right into 2021, touchdown at No. 7 for the year after covering the IFPI listing the year prior to.
Runner-up in the 2021 graph was “Stay” by Australian rap artist The Kid LAROI as well as Justin Bieber, with 2.07 billion worldwide registration stream matchings. Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” was available in at No. 3, as well as the Top 5 for 2021 was completed by the BTS solitary “Butter” as well as Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License.”
Last Thursday (24 ), BTS were introduced as champions of the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award. Tomorrow (Tuesday), the company will certainly disclose the Top Global Albums of the Year.
Buy or stream “Save Your Tears” on the After Hours cd.
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