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Kelly Clarkson Earns First Spotify Billions Club Entry With 'Since U Been Gone'

Produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, the 2004 single’s long tail keeps Clarkson’s catalog in steady rotation.

Overview

  • The breakout hit has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify, marking Clarkson’s first song to reach the milestone.
  • Released as the second single from her 2004 album Breakaway, the track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005.
  • The song won the 2006 Grammy for best female pop vocal performance, while its video claimed two MTV VMAs in 2005 for best female and best pop video.
  • Clarkson has said in a 2020 Apple Music interview that she loves the song’s impact and fondly recalled destroying an apartment set for the video shoot.
  • Other Clarkson tracks are closing in on the mark, with Underneath the Tree near 870 million streams and Because of You and Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) each over 800 million, as several legacy hits by other artists also recently joined the Billions Club.