The APRA billion streams list or The 1,000,000,000 list was established in 2019 by APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) to acknowledge Australasian songwriters whose works have achieved one billion (1,000,000,000) streams on various services.[1] Streaming services used for the list include Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Play, Spotify, Vevo, and YouTube.[1]
Australian-born singer-songwriter Sia is the most prolific writer on the list,[2] with a total of 15 entries, as from October 2022.[3]
List of recipients, with year certified, song(s) certified, writers, and references shown
Year
Song(s)
Writer(s)
Ref(s)
2019
"Friends"
Nat Dunn
[1]
"Be Alright"
Dean Lewis
Jon Hume
"Never Be Like You"
Harley Streten p.k.a. Flume
"This Girl"
Jake Mason
Dan West
Ivan Khatchoyan
(p.k.a. Cookin' on 3 Burners)
"Call on Me"
Starley Hope p.k.a. Starley
Peter Wadams p.k.a. P-Money
"Youth"
Troye Sivan
Alex Hope
2020
"Dance Monkey"
Toni Watson p.k.a. Tones and I
"Youngblood"
Calum Hood
Ashton Irwin
Luke Hemmings
(p.k.a. 5 Seconds of Summer)
Ali Tamposi
Andrew Watt
Louis Bell
"Whatever It Takes", "Young Dumb & Broke"
Joel Little
"Stay"
"The Middle"
Sarah Aarons
"Somebody That I Used to Know"
Wouter de Backer p.k.a. Gotye
"Riptide"
James Keogh p.k.a. Vance Joy
"In My Mind"
Ivan Gough
Aden Forte
Josh Soon (p.k.a. Feenixpawl)
Georgi Kay
"Alive"
"Chained to the Rhythm"
"Chandelier"
"Cheap Thrills"
"Diamonds"
"Dusk Till Dawn"
"Elastic Heart"
"The Greatest"
"Titanium"
Sia Furler p.k.a. Sia
"Bad"
Vassy Karagiorgos
p.k.a. Vassy
2021
"Needed Me"
Lewis Hughes
Nicholas Audino
Khaled Rohaim
Te Whiti Warbrick
p.k.a. Twice as Nice
"The Less I Know the Better"
Kevin Parker
[4]
"Astronaut in the Ocean"
Harry Michael and Tyron Hapi
[5]
"Company"
Leroy Clampitt and James Wong
[3]
"Royals"
Lorde and Joel Little
"Me!"
Joel Little
"Break My Heart"
Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence
"Heaven"
Lindsay Rimes
2022
"Supalonely"
Benee and Josh Fountain
"Head & Heart"
John Courtidis
"Just a Dream"
David Ryan Harris
"Wild Ones", "Flashlight", "Thunderclouds", "Flames", "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)", "Try Everything"
Sia
"Down Under"
Colin Hay
[6]
"Cold Heart (Pnau remix)"
Nicholas Littlemore, Peter Mayes and Sam Littlemore
2023
"July"
PJ Harding
"Love Tonight"
Shouse (Jack Madin and Ed Service)
"Go Crazy"
Trè Samuels
2024
"Walking on a Dream"
Nicholas Littlemore, Luke Steele and Jonathan Sloan
"You Say"
Paul Mabury
^ abc"The 1,000,000,000 list". APRA AMCOS. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021. Note: Non-Australasian co-writers are not shown.
^Brandle, Lars (12 March 2020). "Sia racks up record nine songs on the 1,000,000,000 list". Billboard. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^ ab"The 1,000,000,000 list". APRA AMCOS. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022. Note: Non-Australasian co-writers are not shown.
^Triscari, Caleb (3 May 2021). "Tame Impala's "The Less I Know the Better" clocks up 1 billion streams". The Music Network. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^Brewster, Will (2 September 2021). "Masked Wolf and Tryon Hapi join The 1,000,000,000 List for Astronaut in the Ocean". The Music Network. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^"The 1,000,000,000 list". APRA AMCOS. Archived from the original on 15 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024. Note: Non-Australasian co-writers are not shown.
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