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Foo Fighters’ song Everlong has reached one billion streams on Spotify.
The 1997 single is the post-grunge band’s first to reach 10 digits on the streaming service.
Other rock songs to be featured in Spotify’s “Billions Club” include System Of A Down’s Chop Suey!, Papa Roach’s Last Resort, Linkin Park’s In The End, Radiohead’s Creep and Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer.
Everlong first appeared on Foo Fighters’ second album, 1997’s The Colour And The Shape. Singer/guitarist Dave Grohl wrote the song during the Christmas period in 1996. He told Kerrang! in a 2006 interview: “That song’s about a girl that I’d fallen in love with and it was basically about being connected to someone so much, that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them you harmonise perfectly.”
The song was released on August 18, 1997, as the second single from The Colour And The Shape, following Monkey Wrench. It reached number three in the US Alternative Airplay chart and has since been certified Platinum twice over in the country, as well as eight times Platinum in Australia, five times Platinum in New Zealand and two times Platinum in the UK.
Foo Fighters are currently touring in support of their 2023 album But Here We Are. The band will play the Accor Stadium in Sydney tomorrow (December 9) as part of their ongoing Australian dates. They’ll then play a string of European and US shows in the summer of 2024. Tickets are available now.
But Here We Are was Foo Fighters’ first album without longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins since their 1995 self-titled debut. The musician died aged 50 while on tour with the band in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 25, 2022. Two star-studded tribute shows took place in London and Los Angeles later that year.
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- Foo Fighters - Making A Fire - RSD 2022 - Sealed - UK - 7" vinyl - £19.99, $24.99, €23.39 (New Item) (arrived 06-Apr-2024 11:04)on April 26, 2024 at 6:56 pm
FOO FIGHTERS Making A Fire (Record Store Day 2022 UK/EU limited edition 7" single featuring the Mark Ronson Re-Version and Chasing Birds Preservation Hall Jazz Band Re-Version. Vocal performance on both versions by Dave Grohl. Picture sleeve, factory sealed)
- Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £34.99, $43.74, €40.94 (New Item) (arrived 23-Jan-2024 16:34)on April 26, 2024 at 6:56 pm
FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits (UK/EU 16-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-gram black vinyl - a 16-song collection covering every phase of their 15-year-and-counting journey. In addition to their greatest hits this collection includes the first ever acoustic studio recording of Everlong, plus Wheels and Word Forward, both recorded especially for this album at the fabled 606 Studio complex with producer Butch Vig. Gatefold picture sleeve with superb embossed rivets artwork detail, factory sealed. Recommended)
- Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold - Sealed - US - 2-LP vinyl set - £34.99, $43.74, €40.94 (New Item) (arrived 05-Oct-2023 15:30)on April 26, 2024 at 6:56 pm
FOO FIGHTERS Concrete And Gold (2017 US 11-track double vinyl LP, the Foo's latest album testing the limits of speakers everywhere, with the second disc being single-sided & etched on the fourth side. Comes housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve with bonus mp3 download code, sealed from new in custom stickered shrink)
- Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape - Orange Sleeve - UK - CD album - Promo - £25.00, $31.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 21-Nov-2023 14:56)on April 26, 2024 at 6:56 pm
FOO FIGHTERS The Colour And The Shape (Scarce 1997 UK 13-track advance promotional CD of full album including Monkey Wrench and Everlong, custom black disc in dayglo orange half-sleeve CDPP001)
- Foo Fighters - Generator - UK - CD single - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 21-Nov-2023 14:57)on April 26, 2024 at 6:56 pm
FOO FIGHTERS Generator (1999 original UK Limited Edition 5-track enhanced CD single including exclusive live & acoustic recordings plus CD-Rom Section featuring documentary, photo gallery & weblink, individually numbered picture sleeveand stickered case)
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