This has just reached 2.5 BILLION streams on Spotify

An eternal hit :clap:

39th biggest song of all time in the UK according to JulianT's stats

 

#39

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow

 

 

The only appearance in this Top 200 for Stefani Germanotta, featured in the romantic drama "A Star Is Born".

 

Estimated sales: 3.42 million

Year: 2018

Chart run: 13-6-4-(1)-1-2-2-3-5-32-38-44-75-24-21-27-31-26-26-21-21-11-12-23-25-28-31-34-35-35-39-43-50-56-55-59-56-62-71-/-73-48-54-51-54-56-57-61-61-64-69-74-73-67-/-59-57-65-55-51-/-73-/-73-69-/-64-71-/-74 (64 weeks)

 

 

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:clap: top 40 best selling song of all time - I'm shook!

2.6 billion streams on Spotify!

@1868547773727219867

 

MOTHER

This is SIX TIMES PLATINUM in the UK :o

Global Spotify:

#157. Shallow — 1,141,032 (RE)

Re-enters following Gaga's world record setting gig in Brazil!

Oh the smash!!!

❤️

This has had a bit of resurgence on UK Spotify recently and is currently #156 (+7k in streams week-on-week). Do we know if there's a particular reason?

The Stereogum's Number Ones column is here:

https://www.stereogum.com/2305257/the-number-ones-lady-gaga-bradley-coopers-shallow/columns/the-number-ones/

“Shallow” has a funny structure. It keeps building and building, and Gaga gets louder and louder. Whenever the track reaches one crescendo, it seems like it should ebb back, but that doesn’t really happen. Instead, it keeps getting bigger and louder until it’s over. Lots of classic power ballads follow the same basic progression, but most of them leave room for you to take a breath. “Shallow” compresses all that into three and a half minutes, and it doesn’t need more time than that to take you on a ride. It’s hard to judge “Shallow” as a song by itself, since it’s so bound up with the imagery of the movie and the on-fire feeling of its one big scene. But maybe the best thing about “Shallow” is that it sounds like a story unto itself. Much like the movie, it gives you the spectacle of two desperate people falling in love. Even when you know things are about to go bad, it’s easy to get caught up in that.

"Shallow" is the 104th most-streamed song of all time on Apple Music.