Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” is declared the greatest US song of all time

Journey’s biggest hit and one of the biggest hits of the 1980s, “Don’t Stop Believin'” was declared the greatest song of all time (at least in the US) by Forbes. The information was released by the Blabbermouth website last Monday (March 18).

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“Don’t Stop Believin'” is the track that opens “Escape”, Journey’s seventh studio album, released in the second half of 1981. According to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the song in question is a certified single 18 times platinum. This means that, between sales of physical copies and consumption on streaming platforms, the song moved at least 18 million equivalent units in the United States alone.

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The Journey has reached a historic milestone, but it is not alone on the podium. “Sunflower” by Post Malone and Swae Lee – officially titled “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)” – has been certified 18 times platinum as of May 2023.

Journey’s most famous work will soon reach another memorable milestone: 2 billion plays on Spotify. At the time of publishing this note, “Don’t Stop Believin'” had accumulated approximately 1 billion and 814 million reproductions on the aforementioned platform.

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Steve Perry, former lead singer of Journey, spoke about “Don’t Stop Believin'” in 2009, during an interview with CBC’s cultural affairs program “Q”.

“The lyrics are a strong lyric about not giving up, but it’s also about being young, it’s also about going out, not giving up and looking for that hidden emotion somewhere in the dark that we’re all looking for. It’s about having hope and not giving up when things things get tough, because I’m telling you things get tough for everyone,” the singer-songwriter said.

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