Descrizione
Thirty-two songs. Sixteen bands. Sixty years of pop music. This volume explores the boy and girl bands that reached Spotify's Billion Club — the archive of songs with over one billion streams.From the Temptations in 1964 to BTS, from the Spice Girls to Blackpink, all the way to Huntr/x, the virtual band born from a Netflix animated film in 2024.
At the top of everything, One Direction: six billion songs as a group, eleven as solo artists — the defining case of this volume and perhaps of the entire history of boy bands. But there's more: an analysis of the "solo streams" — the billion songs that former members produced as solo artists, often surpassing the numbers of the group itself — and a look at who's still missing: the notable absentees like Little Mix, the most credible candidates to enter the club in 2026, and the bands that could surprise in the years ahead.
Because the Billion Club is not a closed archive. It's a story still being written.
Indice
The 10⁹ Project1The 10⁹ series3How to read this volume3What a boy/girl band is (and isn't)5The Working Definition6The Outcasts: Who Didn't Make the Cut (and Why)7The Grey Areas8A Category Born to be Underestimated9The Origins11The Temptations - Ground Zero12Music Beyond Borders13The Jackson 5 - When the Band is a Family14Once Again, Music Beyond Borders16Sidebar - The Bee Gees: Brothers, Not a Boy Band17Heading Toward the '90s18The Golden Age19Lou Pearlman and the Orlando Factory20The Paradox of I Want It That Way22The Girls Take the Stage23Destiny's Child: The Band That Contained Beyoncé25The Paradox of the '90s26The Expiration Date of the Model27The Modern Hybrid29The New Playbook: Play, Write, Produce31Jonas Brothers: The Boy Band That Refused the Label32One Direction: The Most Productive Incubator in History33BTS: When the Boy Band Becomes a Cultural Phenomenon35Blackpink: Four Soloists in Search of a Bigger Stage36The Ultimate Answer to "Music Just Isn't What It Used to Be"37Shifting the Boundary Line38Data and Tables: the Band's Billion Songs39The Numbers Behind the Phenomenon39All 32 Tracks Ranked by Streams41Bands by Number of Billion Tracks43Tracks by Decade of Release44The Case of "Golden": The Youngest Song Already in the Top 2044Year of Entry into the Billion Club45The Spin-Off of the Bands47Top 20 Tracks Ranked by Streams48Solo Artists by Number of Billion Tracks50Spin-offs by Origin Band51Spin-offs by Decade of Release52Year of Entry into the Billion Club52The Anomalous Case: Joe Jonas and DNCE53The Band's Profiles55The Temptations57The Jackson 559Bee Gees61Spice Girls63Backstreet Boys65Destiny's Child67TLC69*NSYNC71One Direction73The Wanted76Fifth Harmony785 Seconds of Summer (5SOS)80BTS82Jonas Brothers84Blackpink86Huntr/x88The Great Absentees91The Billion Club Is Not a Definitive Ranking91Historical Cases: When Physical Sales Aren't Enough92The Tracks Closest to the Billion Mark93The Great Absentees - 43 band, six decades96Let the Music Speak101Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC - Nr. 20102Perfect - One Direction - Nr. 19105How You Like That - Blackpink - Nr. 18108My Girl - The Temptations - Nr. 17111Golden - Huntr/x - Nr. 16114Boy with Luv - BTS feat. Halsey - Nr. 15117Drag Me Down - One Direction - Nr. 14120Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees - Nr. 13123Wannabe - Spice Girls - Nr. 12126Butter - BTS - Nr. 11129No Scrubs - TLC - Nr. 10132My Universe - BTS feat. Coldplay - Nr. 9135Sucker - Jonas Brothers - Nr. 8138Work From Home - Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Nr. 7141What Makes You beautiful - One Direction - Nr. 6144Story of My life - One Direction - Nr. 5147I Want It That way - Backstreet Boys - Nr. 4150Youngblood - 5 Seconds of Summer - Nr. 3153Dynamite - BTS - Nr. 2156Night Changes - One Direction - Nr. 1159Goodbye, and thank you!162What comes next163Write to me164Contacts164
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