Date 14/10/2015 - News People
The soulful ballad "Thinking Out Loud" by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the first song to be streamed half a billion times on Spotify. The streaming site estimated that one in four Spotify users had a Sheeran song on his or her playlist. Spotify found that Sheeren is very popular in English-speaking countries and Scandinavia, with Denmark streaming Sheeran's music most frequently among countries with Spotify service. For his entire catalog, Sheeran has enjoyed 2.9 billion streams, behind only Eminem.
