Tones And I enters the history books once more, as the Australian artist’s monster hit “Dance Monkey” ticks past 3 billion streams on Spotify.
With that feat, Tones (real name: Toni Watson) becomes the first female artist to achieve that streaming milestone.
Since its commercial launch in 2008, Spotify has entered just eight songs into the three billion streams club; with the exception of “Dance Monkey,” all of them are recorded by male artists from North America or the United Kingdom.
At the top of the tree is The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (4.092 billion streams), ahead of Ed…