New Consecration for Rick Astley. Never Gonna Give You UpIts 1987 tube has just exceeded one billion listeners in Spotify, 38 years after its launch. A symbolic figure reacted by the 59 -year -old British singer in a press release transmitted by The Hollywood Reporter:
“I could never have imagined, in 1987, that ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ would continue to walk decades later.”
“Thanks to the transmission platforms, a completely new generation was able to discover music like mine. Taking one billion transmissions is something that I had never dreamed of, and for all who listened to, thank you.”
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This tube was an immediate success the year of its launch. Rick Astley was 21 years old and took the lead in the ranking in more than twenty countries, remaining from the first sales for five weeks in the United Kingdom and two in the United States. Your first album, Whenever you need someoneHe sold 15 million copies.
He arrived at a new audience in the mid -2000s thanks to “Rickroling”, a popular internet joke: at that time, it was common to see bloggers and other Internet users to catch their readers with links placed in their texts that, when they click, refer to the clip. Without a doubt, it is this trend that allowed the video to reach one billion views on YouTube in 2021.
If Rick Astley has had other successes, Never Gonna Give You Up It remains, with much, the most emblematic title of his career. That continues: your last album, Are we there?He was released in 2023. That year, he was one of the heads of the Glastonbury Festival with Elton John. In 2024, he published his memoirs, Never: autobiography.
Source: BFM TV
