David Bowie's music reaches one billion streams on Spotify

David Bowie's music has hit a major streaming landmark, hitting one billion plays on Spotify this week. 

The late music icon's most streamed song on the platform is his 1977 track Heroes - a song that has become one of his signature hits despite originally peaking at Number 24 on the Official Singles Chart. Following his tragic death in January 2016, the song reached a new high at Number 12.

Speaking about the future of the music industry in 2002, Bowie predicted: ''The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity”.

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Heroes was originally recorded in English, French and German; and is being released on picture disc to celebrate its 40th birthday on September 22. It will also be included on a forthcoming retrospective of Bowie's work titled A New Career In A New Town 1977-1982, which follows on September 29.

David Bowie's Top 10 most streamed songs on Spotify are: 

1. Heroes
2. Let’s Dance
3. Space Oddity
4. Life On Mars
5. Starman
6. Rebel Rebel
7. Moonage Daydream
8. Changes
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Modern Love

Sitting just outside the Top 10 are Fame, The Man Who Sold The World, China Girl, Oh! You Pretty Things, Sound & Vision, Where Are We Now? This Is Not America, Ashes To Ashes and Young Americans.

Look back through all of David Bowie's studio album artworks below:

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Article image: Jimmy King