Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' has reached one billion streams on Spotify

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Thursday, 18 July 2024, 11:07AM

Fleetwood Mac's iconic 1977 single, Go Your Own Way, has just hit one billion streams on Spotify!

Go Your Own Way, written by Lindsey Buckingham, was the lead single off Rumours. It quickly climbed the charts, landing at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. It also consistently makes it into our Feel Good 500 Countdown, coming in at number 166 this year.

This isn't the first time a Rumours track has hit the billion-stream mark on Spotify. Go Your Own Way joins the exclusive club alongside Dreams and The Chain.

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Go Your Own Way was famously written about Lindsey and Stevie's breakup and has become one of their highest selling songs.

When Stevie first heard the song, she demanded that Lindsay take out the line "Packing up, shacking up is all you wanna do", but he ultimately kept the lyrics. Stevie later told Rolling Stone that she "very much resented him telling the world that 'packing up, shacking up' with different men was all I wanted to do,"

"He knew it wasn't true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, 'I'll make you suffer for leaving me.' And I did."

Go Your Own Way was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement in 1978 but lost out against The Eagles' New Kid In Town.

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