David Guetta hits 2 billion streams on Spotify: “Wow, mind blowing!”

David Guetta has surpassed 2 billion streams on Spotify, the music service have confirmed.

In doing so, Guetta becomes both the first EDM artist and first French artist in history to pass the landmark, and only the third in history – following Ed Sheeran and Eminem.

“I want to thank you so much for helping me reach this incredible milestone,” Guetta said, “2 billion streams on Spotify! Wow, mind blowing!”

Guetta is also the most-followed artist on Spotify with 6.8m followers and more than 15 million fans listening to his music on the service each month. The DJ’s most recent single Hey Mama FT Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack has now racked up 95 million global streams.

“It is amazing to see David add his name to the very select 2 billion streams club,” Bart Cools, EVP Global Marketing and A&R Dance Music, Warner Music Group comments, “He is the first DJ to reach this milestone which is an amazing achievement but looking at how dance is exploding at the moment as a genre, I am sure he will be followed by others very soon.”