The Scarbourgh native scores his 31st entry with “Party Monster,” while Bieber’s collaboration with Chance the Rapper, “Confident,” arrives at the club.
The Weeknd and Justin Bieber have new entries in the Spotify Billions Club, each surpassing one billion streams in January.
Since 2016 is all the rage, it’s only fitting that The Weeknd’s “Party Monster” reaches the streaming milestone. It served as the fourth single from 2016’s Starboy, released alongside “I Feel It Coming” — which currently sits at over two billion streams. The album sat at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for seven weeks, marking his second-highest peaking album in the top spot, following his 2021 compilation album, The Highlights, which spent eight weeks at No. 1.
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On “Party Monster,” the artist, born Abel Tesfaye,continued to lean into the R&B and pop sounds established on 2015's Beauty Behind The Madness, while incorporating trap-infused moments à la his Trilogy mixtapes. The dark and atmospheric track spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, peaking at No. 8 a week after its debut on the ranking.
The song was written and produced by The Weeknd alongside frequent collaborators Ben Billions and Doc McKinney. “Party Monster” includes additional writing credits for Palestinian-Canadian rapper and XO record label signee Belly and singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, the latter of whom provides background vocals on the track.
“Party Monster” marks The Weeknd’s 31st song to be inducted into Spotify’s Billions Club. At the top of 2026, he made history on the streaming platform, as 30 songs went over the billion-stream threshold. In 2024, he became the first artist with 18 songs in the club, celebrating the milestone with a special Billions Club concert, which was later released as a concert film.
Hot on the heels of stripped-down, stripped-back performance at this year’s Grammys — which he only spent 15 minutes rehearsing for — Justin Bieber is slowly building his roster of songs to reach over a billion streams. The Canadian pop and R&B singer arrives with his 19th entry, “Confident,” featuring Chance the Rapper.
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The 2013 track served as the final single from Bieber’s Music Mondays campaign. Starting in October, the singer released one new song every Monday for ten weeks, leading up to the theatrical release of his Believe concert film. The tracks — including five additions — were packaged into Bieber’s second compilation, Journals, released at the end of the year.
As Bieber put his teeny-bopper image to the side, “Confident” explored a new side of the singer. Fusing contemporary R&B and pop sounds, the track features a more mature performance, as Bieber flexes smooth, lower-register vocals and a breathy falsetto over a trap-inspired beat. Then, Chance the Rapper comes in with a high-energy rap verse that amps up the track, flowing with Bieber’s melodic delivery.
The first collaboration between Bieber and the Chicago rapper, “Confident,” only spent one week on the Canadian Hot 100, peaking at No. 29. The duo has continued to collaborate, scoring a second entry on Spotify’s Billions Club with DJ Khaled’s 2017 track “I’m The One,” which features Quavo and Lil Wayne. It’s currently sitting at 1.3 billion streams.
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On his own, Bieber has 18 other songs in the club, including “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Ceaser and Giveon, “Ghost,” “Baby,” “Intentions,” “Mistletoe,” “Stay,” with The Kid Laroi and “I Don’t Care,” featuring Ed Sheeran, among others.
It’s a major feat for the singer, who scored 10 entries on Spotify’s Global Impact list for the second half of 2025, following the surprise drop of his chart-topping album, Swag.
Other notable songs to reach one billion streams in January are: Lorde’s “Ribs,” Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal,” Rihanna’s “Disturbia,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” and more.
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See below for the full list of songs that entered the Spotify Billions Club last month:
