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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: 8 Years After Passing, Avicii Has Just Achieved Something Remarkable · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: We were coming up on the eight year anniversary of
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Speaker 2: a Vici passing. And while he's unfortunately gone, it's safe
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Speaker 2: to say his music has endured and the Swedish eedm
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Speaker 2: legend joined extremely rare company.
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Speaker 3: Yes, his groundbreaking twenty thirteen smash Wake Me Up, alongside
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Speaker 3: Alo Black, has become the fifty first song in music
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Speaker 3: history to surpass three billion streams.
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Speaker 4: Which is so interesting because it was also the very
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Speaker 4: first song to hit two hundred million streams way back
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Speaker 4: in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 2: And that was the era when streaming was still starting
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Speaker 2: to rise and hadn't quite taken over. So it was
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Speaker 2: a huge milestone then.
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Speaker 3: And that that three billion mark for an artist who's
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Speaker 3: been gone for nearly a decade, it's monumental.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. The other artists that he's joining our names like
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Speaker 4: Ed Sheeran, The Weekend, Harry Styles, Daft Punk.
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Speaker 2: And how about the fact that when he debuted Wake
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Speaker 2: Me Up at twenty thirteen's Ultra Music Festival, it was
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Speaker 2: lovely boot Can you believe that the crowd was they
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Speaker 2: were not ready for it, but the world clearly was.
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