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His death has left music fans around the world heartbroken, and millions of Spotify users turned to David Bowie’s back-catalogue on the streaming service for comfort.
The music service has reported an increase globally of 2822% in streams of Bowie’s tracks, with the platform responding by releasing a playlist of its own dedicated to the man himself.
It's sad to lose Bowie, but it beautiful to think millions of people across the world are listening to his music right now.
— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) January 11, 2016
Driving through the desert, surrounded by snow covered mountains & good company — listening to Heroes by Bowie ☄ pic.twitter.com/qDnYWRNwUP
— Lia (@LiaMarieJohnson) January 12, 2016
Had a lovely day reading Twitter comments, watching tributes and listening to Bowie's back catalogue.
— Ian Stone (@iandstone) January 11, 2016
Was up until about 6 listening to Bowie music. Woke up ten minutes ago and still feeling the same way: Dammit. Just goddamn it all to hell.
— Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) January 11, 2016
Nobody call me today. I'll be listening to David Bowie songs and watching Labrynth. #RIPDavidBowie #turnandfacethestrange
— Molly Wood (@mollywood) January 11, 2016
As one of the above tweets alludes to, Heroes was the most popular song on Monday, and its number of streams was up by more than 3500%. Let’s Dance was second on the list, and its streams rose by 3942%.
Blackstar and Lazarus – both from the Ziggy Stardust star’s latest album which was only launched last week – also made it into the top five, which was completed by classic Life on Mars. The latter saw the biggest jump in its number of streams, rising by 4238%, according to Spotify.
