Justin Bieber’s song Daisies has passed one billion streams on Spotify and joined the platform’s Billions Club. uDiscover reported the milestone on September 18, 2026, and it was reported in October coverage as Bieber’s 23rd song to pass one billion streams.
Date honesty matters here. Daisies is not a new release this week. It is a track from Bieber’s album SWAG, originally released in 2025, and this post covers a streaming milestone reached this fall, stated plainly, rather than framing catalogue material as a fresh drop.
What the milestone actually means
Passing one billion streams on a single platform is a scale marker that only a small group of songs reaches. For Bieber, Daisies became his 23rd song to clear that mark, a total that October reporting placed level with Rihanna for the fifth highest total on Spotify. That context is the story. One hit can be a moment. Twenty three billion stream songs across different eras of a career is a catalogue.
Daisies also performed as a chart single, not only as a streaming catalogue track. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been certified Platinum in the United States by the RIAA. Those two facts together, a near chart topping peak and a billion streams over time, show both an immediate impact and staying power with listeners who kept returning to the record.
The song was written by Bieber with a team that includes Dijon, Mk.gee, Eddie Benjamin, Carter Lang, Dylan Wiggins and Daniel Chetrit, alongside Tobias Jesso Jr. That writing and production group helps explain the sound. Daisies leans into an intimate, alternative pop feel rather than a large, polished dance production, and that closeness became part of how critics described the SWAG era.
There’s an intimacy to this track, as if it places the listener directly in the garage, or whatever small, comforting and likely hazy space, it was recorded in.
That assessment came from Billboard writer Lyndsey Havens, in a ranking of the songs on SWAG that placed Daisies at No. 1, quoted in uDiscover’s coverage of the milestone. It captures why the song connected. For an artist more than fifteen years and seven albums into his career at that point, making a superstar record feel small and direct is not an easy trick, and listeners responded by playing it at a billion stream scale.
Why SWAG keeps producing milestones
Daisies is not the first track connected to the SWAG era to reach a major streaming mark. uDiscover noted that the live version of STAY by Bieber and The Kid LAROI from SWAG Live From Coachella had already accrued more than four billion streams. That live album placed songs from the SWAG period alongside hits from across Bieber’s catalogue, with appearances connected to artists including Tems, Wizkid, Dijon and Mk.gee, plus an acoustic section and archival footage woven into the production.
Seen together, those numbers show a catalogue working on two levels at once. Newer SWAG material is still climbing, while live versions and earlier hits continue to accumulate plays at a very large scale. For a Canadian artist from Stratford, Ontario, who first broke through as a teenager, that durability is the central fact of this phase of his career. The audience did not stay with one era. It followed him through several, and it keeps streaming across all of them.
There are concrete examples of that breadth in the Daisies story itself. First, the writers include both long established pop craftspeople like Tobias Jesso Jr. and newer alternative voices like Dijon and Mk.gee, bridging two listening worlds. Second, the song’s Hot 100 peak shows radio and chart strength, not only playlist placement. Third, the Platinum certification confirms United States sales and streaming equivalents beyond a single platform headline. Each measure points the same way, from a different direction.
A Canadian catalogue at global scale
Bieber’s milestone also lands in a strong fall for Canadian music recognition. In the same season, Drake and Jessie Reyez are being honoured at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto, Tate McRae is charting internationally with new material, and Daniel Caesar is on a world tour behind Son of Spergy. Daisies adds a streaming scale example to that picture, one measured in a billion plays for a single song.
For listeners revisiting SWAG, Daisies is the natural starting point, and it rewards a close listen for the details that made it stand out: the close vocal, the understated arrangement, and a chorus built to repeat without wearing out. A billion streams does not happen by accident, and it does not happen in a week. It happens when a song becomes part of daily listening for a very large number of people, over months.
Daisies is available on SWAG on all major streaming platforms, and its Billions Club entry now sits as a permanent marker in Bieber’s catalogue, his 23rd song to reach a threshold that most artists never reach once.
