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Dua Lipa's "Training Season" Hits 500 Million Streams-And Fans Have Thoughts.
Dua Lipa is no stranger to breaking records, but her latest milestone has the internet abuzz for a whole different reason. "Training Season," her 2024 single, just reached a wild 500 million streams on Spotify, making it her 22nd song to reach this achievement.
While that's an undeniably impressive feat, the reaction online wasn't all confetti and celebration. Instead, it turned into a meme fest, with fans-along with non-fans-questioning rather dramatically- who exactly is behind those streams.
Dua Lipa's "Training Season" Breaks Records, But Fans Are Suspicious
News of the song's milestone made rounds on all social media and went viral almost immediately for other reasons than just the impressive number. The moment went viral, but not due to praise. It was out of utter confusion. An announcement post marking 500 million streams was followed by an avalanche of hilarious reactions ranging from genuine surprise to downright skepticism.
As if "Training Season" had been secretly racking up streams in the dead of night while the world slept, "Who's listening to this?" became the rallying cry for many.
When the post began to receive some traction, the comments in it went gold from remarks made by the fans.
Some simply couldn't believe the numbers and genuinely wondered who had been listening. A wave of comments simply asked, “Who’s listening to this?” over and over, as if demanding answers from the universe itself. Others, in true internet fashion, took it further with dramatic disbelief. “It took ten years,” one person declared, despite the math not quite adding up.
Another echoed the sentiment with, “Took a decade,” turning the song’s streaming success into a historical event.
Among the chaos, some stood firmly in support of Dua. “Mother Lipa,” one fan proudly wrote, as if that explained everything.
Another, more skeptical, simply commented, “Fraudulent,” suggesting some dark streaming conspiracy at play. Of course, no one actually produced evidence of said fraud, but that didn’t stop the internet from embracing the drama.
Other reactions took the humorous path, thinking about the other realities in which the success of this song would actually make more sense. One user joked it was streaming from an army of Dua Lipa clones playing the song on a loop in some secretive underground lab. Others said maybe, just maybe, it had been auto-playing on everyone's devices.
The number of reactions, though, spoke to a very different Internet impulse-one where the Internet delights in piling on with collective roasts, even when the subject of those roasts happens to be the biggest career moment of a global pop star. Confused or just in on the joke, the meme storm furthered the track's notoriety.
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500 million streams are huge, whichever way the record is looked at. Love it or not, "Training Season" is doing numbers, and here comes Dua Lipa with staying power.
Whether those streams came from die-hard fans, casual listeners, or someone's accidentally looped playlist- we may never know. But for certain, the internet will always have something to say about it.
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