Montreal artist Patrick Watson has reason to celebrate, because I will leave you words is the first song in French to enter Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB, passing the billion listens mark.
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I will leave you words by Patrick Watson already dominated the charts as the most listened to French-language song this year on Spotify, both in Canada and globally.
The track is now the first by a Quebec performer to exceed one billion streams on the platform.
The French-language track by the Montreal singer-songwriter was released in September 2010. It was written to be the theme song for the film Mothers and daughtersstarring Marie-Josée Croze and Catherine Deneuve.
-In September 2022, Patrick Watson responded to the request of many musical admirers by creating a booklet of scores of some of his songs, including I will leave you words. The cover image, signed Magalie Guérin, was the one that illustrated the song when it was released in 2010.
This news follows an exceptional year for Quebec music, as more than a sixth of Spotify users worldwide, more than 100 million people, listened to content in French between September 2023 and August 2024.
Also on Spotify, listening to songs in the language of Molière has increased by 94% since 2019.
