The 60 Rock + Metal Songs With Over One Billion Spotify Streams

Here are over 60 rock and metal songs with over one billion streams on Spotify.

At the time of publication, there are nearly 600 songs with one billion or more Spotify streams, meaning rock and metal makes up over 10 percent of that elite group. Not bad for a genre everyone keeps claiming is dead and mostly gets shut out of the mainstream, right?!

What’s even more impressive is that at least one rock/metal song from each decade since the 1960s has achieved this coveted and impressive high mark. There’s even a track from the 2020s and just one of these songs below has racked up over two billion streams.

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Queen have the most billion-plus streamed songs with a total of five, while, perhaps surprisingly, The Beatles — the band who has sold the most albums and compiled the most No. 1 hit songs — have only one.

NOT INCLUDED: The definition of rock is incredibly broad today and, in this list, we’ve elected not to include pop/rock acts such as Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Twenty One Pilots, 5 Seconds of Summer, Coldplay, Goo Goo Dolls, Gym Class Heroes and Train.

See which rock and metal songs have earned over one billion Spotify streams directly below.