“The Weeknd - "Save Your Tears"” has the highest value (2.2) and “Ed Sheeran - "Bad Habits"” the lowest (1.6).

Most downloaded singles worldwide in 2021
Artist and song name	Number of downloads (billion)
The Weeknd - "Save Your Tears"	2.2
The Kid Laroi, Justin Bieber - "Stay"	2.1
Dua Lipa -"Levitating"	1.9
BTS - "Butter"	1.8
Olivia Rodrigo - "drivers license"	1.7
Justin Bieber (feat. Daniel Caesar, Giveon) - "Peaches"	1.7
The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights"	1.6
Olivia Rodrigo - "good 4 u"	1.6
Lil Nas X - "MONTERO (call me by your name)"	1.6
Ed Sheeran - "Bad Habits"	1.6

Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

About this data

The data on this page is global, collected by Namafar for comparison with Iran.

Iranian (Solar Hijri) years run from late March to March: 1404 = March 2025 to March 2026.

Details

Source: IFPI
Year: 1399 (2020/21)
Industry: Music and audio
Published: Oct 21, 2020

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