AEROSMITH's 'Dream On' surpasses one billion streams on Spotify
08-12-2023
Legendary rockers AEROSMITH have joined Spotify‘s “Billions Club” with their classic song “Dream On”.
Billions Club is a playlist first launched in 2020 which includes all of the songs on Spotify that have surpassed one billion streams on the platform. After the achievement, Spotify gifts artists the Billions Club plaque.
‘Dream On’ has now been streamed over 1 BILLION times on @Spotify THANK YOU #BlueArmy #Aerosmith #StevenTyler #JoePerry #JoeyKramer #TomHamilton #BradWhitford #BlueArmy #Aerosmith50 #AerosmithPeaceOut pic.twitter.com/be0H0noVLx
— Aerosmith (@Aerosmith) December 6, 2023
AEROSMITH joins other artists — including METALLICA‘s “Nothing Else Matters”, SURVIVOR‘s “Eye Of The Tiger”, ABBA‘s “Dancing Queen”, PAPA ROACH‘s “Last Resort” and Whitney Houston‘s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” — to reach the achievement. The milestone has reportedly been achieved by nearly 500 tracks so far.
“Dream On” was featured on AEROSMITH‘s self-titled debut album, which was released in January 1973.
Penned by frontman Steven Tyler, the ballad was the second single released from “Aerosmith”. Long since a staple at classic rock radio, “Dream On” scored its most recent accolade in the form of induction into the Grammy Hall Of Fame as part of the class of 2018.
“The music for ‘Dream On’ was originally written on a Steinway upright piano in the living room of Trow-Rico lodge in Sunapee (New Hampshire), maybe four years before AEROSMITH even started,” Tyler recalls in the AEROSMITH biography “Walk This Way” by Stephen Davis. “I was seventeen or eighteen… It was just this little thing I was playing, and I never dreamed it would end up as a real song or anything… It’s about dreaming until your dreams come true.”
Upon its release as a single in 1973, “Dream On” landed at No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. After another AEROSMITH ballad, “You See Me Crying”, failed to chart in 1975, AEROSMITH manager David Krebs convinced Columbia Records to re-release “Dream On”. The re-release of “Dream On” peaked No. 6 in early 1976, earning the band its first of eight Top 10 hits.
AEROSMITH recently announced their farewell tour, dubbed “Peae OUt”, on which they are joined by The Black Crowes.
Watch the original promo video below.
Produced by Live Nation, the monumental 40-date North American tour will kick off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 2, with stops in iconic arenas across the U.S. and Canada, including Los Angeles’s Kia Forum, New York’s Madison Square Garden, Dallas’s Moody Center, Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, Chicago’s United Center, Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, and more before wrapping in Montreal, Quebec at Bell Centre on January 26 (their last visit at the Bell Centre was in April 2004). A highlight of the tour will be a stop in Boston for a special hometown show on New Year’s Eve 2023.
Produced by Live Nation, the monumental 40-date North American tour will kick off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 2, with stops in iconic arenas across the U.S. and Canada, including Los Angeles’s Kia Forum, New York’s Madison Square Garden, Dallas’s Moody Center, Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, Chicago’s United Center, Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, and more before wrapping in Montreal, Quebec at Bell Centre on January 26 (their last visit at the Bell Centre was in April 2004). A highlight of the tour will be a stop in Boston for a special hometown show on New Year’s Eve 2023.
VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include a premium reserved ticket, a personal photo opportunity with band members, limited edition merchandise and more. For more information, visit aerosmith.com/vip
The band also shared news of Joey Kramer‘s absence from this touring run, saying: “While Joey Kramer remains a beloved founding member of AEROSMITH, he has regrettably made the decision to sit out the currently scheduled touring dates to focus his full attention on his family and health. Joey‘s unmistakable and legendary presence behind the drum kit will be sorely missed.”
Most recently, AEROSMITH wrapped their critically acclaimed Las Vegas residency, “Aerosmith: Deuces Are Wild”, at Dolby Live at Park MGM. The electrifying 90-minute live performance took fans deep diving into AEROSMITH‘s groundbreaking career with exclusive, unreleased audio and never-before-seen visuals from the band’s archives produced by Oscar and Emmy-winning global visual effects studio Pixomondo.
Ahead of the residency, AEROSMITH returned to their hometown in Boston to perform a record-breaking one-off show at Fenway Park as part of the legendary band’s 50th anniversary celebrations. With over 38,700 people in attendance, it was the most tickets sold to date for a show at the iconic venue.
Remaining scheduled AEROSMITH “Peace Out” 2023 / 2024 tour dates:
Dec. 10 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
Dec. 28 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
Dec. 31 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Jan. 04 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Arena
Jan. 07 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
Jan. 10 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
Jan. 13 – Knoxville, TN – Thompson-Boling Arena
Jan. 16 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
Jan. 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Jan. 23 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center
Jan. 26 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
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