KISS is the latest act to score an entry to Spotify’s Billions Club, after their classic hit “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” reached one billion streams on the platform.
The Billions Club playlist first launched in 2020 as home to all of the songs on Spotify that have impressively surpassed one Billion streams. In addition to a spot on the playlist, which currently has 682 songs, Spotify also recognizes the artists with a Billions Club plaque. “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” is KISS’ first track to reach the major milestone.
The song originally appeared on the group’s 1979 album Dynasty. It was released as the A-side of their first single for the album, with the song “Hard Times” as the B-side. The track became the group’s second Gold single, selling over 1 million copies in both the U.S. and Canada. It reached number 11 on the Billboard singles chart and No.1 on the Canadian national chart, at the same time becoming a hit in Australia and New Zealand and charting in Europe.
In 2017, Paul Stanley admitted that he felt conflicted about the song’s success. He called it “a double-edged sword, because it became such a massive hit but it was also so contrary and contradictory to what we had done before.” He continued: “The funniest thing is when we do festivals sometimes in Europe where it’s very much… the bands are quite heavy, well, when we do an encore of ‘I Was Made For Lovin’ You’, you suddenly have all these people with spikes in their eyeballs or bones through their noses singing along. So it’s a song that seems to transcend everything — although it went through a period, certainly, of a big backlash against it.”
Last year, Spotify announced “Billions Club: The Series,” which features artists talking about the songs that have made the playlist. Billie Eilish, for example, talked about her song “Happier Than Ever” while preparing a snack for her dog, Shark, right on the Billions Club plaque.
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