Rick Astley celebrates “Never Gonna Give You Up” hits 1B Spotify streams

Rick Astley Will never give you up – nor his fans.

On Monday 2 June, the Grammy-nominated artist shared his thoughts on the song in 1987 “Will never give you up” reaches one billion flows on Spotify.

“So who would have thought that after all these years will never give you up” has had a billion streams on Spotify. It’s a billion flows. How amazing, ”said Astley, 59, in a Instagram video. “Thank you for listening and lots of love, and see you soon.”

“Will never give you up” was part of Astley’s debut solo album, When you need someone was released in the early 20th century. The song reached no. 1 on over 20 international diagrams at release, per Hollywood Reporter. From the publication, the music video has over 1.6 billion views on Youtube.

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It experienced a new popularity in the 21st century, when you got “Rick-rolled,” A Bete and-Switch online trait, was born from the song. Meme included tricking people online into expecting a thing from a URL and then brought to the song or video for “Never Gonna Give You Up”, thus the term Rick rolled.

Astley, who has been true of the song’s viral popularity, commented the Meme man in 2016 and told People about The first time he was rick-rolled.

“A friend of mine rolled me a couple of times, and I didn’t really know what he was doing. I just thought he was an idiot,” the singer said at that time. “I was just thinking,“ What does this idiot do? This is just not entertaining. I don’t really know what’s going on. “So we eventually got on the phone and he explained it to me.”

Added Astley: “To be honest, I still didn’t get it. It took a few weeks for me to understand.”

But he only sees Meme as a “positive thing.”

“I don’t think you can really have any bad thoughts about an internet barrel that turned your song into a global moment,” Astley said.

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He also consulted his daughter, who was a teenager at that time, when he navigated in the new trend. “She said,“ Don’t sweat it. It has nothing to do with you, ” He told People in January 2025.

“And I am,” How can it have nothing to do with me? “And she said,” Just leave it where it is.

Less than 1,000 songs have reached billions of Streams Club on Spotify. Astley’s hit goes with “Love Story” by Taylor Swift, “Mr. Brightide” by The Killers, “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel and “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire, among other tracks.