The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather" Passes Five Billion Spotify Streams

The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather" passed five billion streams on Spotify on Nov. 2, the platform confirmed to Billboard. That makes it only the third song in Spotify's history to reach the mark.

A stream is one listen counted by the service. Spotify's total covers every time a listener plays the track, whether it is in a playlist, on shuffle or chosen directly.

The song is also the most-playlisted track of all time on Spotify, according to Billboard. It appears on more than 103 million user-created playlists, the lists that listeners build themselves rather than ones made by the service's editors.

The growth has been steady for years. The song first reached one billion Spotify streams in 2021. Spotify reported that its annual streams rose more than seven times between 2019 and 2024. Its music video has also passed one billion views on YouTube.

"Sweater Weather" came out before the band's debut album, "I Love You." It reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, the main US singles chart, in 2013. It also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, which ranks songs by plays on alternative rock radio stations.

The band's most recent album, "Ultrasound," arrived in November 2025 and peaked at No. 20 on the Top Alternative Albums chart.

Guitarist Zach Abels told Billboard that the band wrote the song in his mother's living room while he was still in high school. He said it has taken on a life of its own through the internet and its fans, and that it now feels bigger than the band.

In 2023, Variety reported that the track was turning 10 years old and had been certified diamond, the top level of the US music industry's sales awards.

For listeners, the milestone is a reminder that a song can keep finding new audiences long after its first release. Each of those five billion streams was one person pressing play, often on a playlist made by someone they may never meet.