Ed Sheeran is making history. He revealed in a video celebrating the achievement that he initially didn't want the song but now the pop star called this milestone "absolutely insane". This song reached its peak on December 22  after initially being released on the streaming service back in January 2017.

 "I remember this song hitting a billion and thinking that was weird. It's the first song to hit 3 billion streams and I'm really really chuffed with it!"  The 30-year-old singer then thanked Spotify for collaborating over the past 10 years.

 ‘Shape Of You’ wasn’t really meant to make the album,” he explained, “but when I finished making the song, Ben Cook, from my label, said it had to be a single – but I wanted ‘Castle On The Hill’ to be the single. We put both songs out at once and… I was wrong. Here we are with ‘Shape of You’ at three billion.”