Hollywood star Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith has officially become the first in her family to earn a billion streams with one of her songs on Spotify, that being her 2015 track “Wait a Minute!”
It is certainly a proud moment for father Will Smith who took to his Instagram to boast Willow’s achievement, sharing a shot of his phone screen with her Spotify page, to confirm that she was indeed a streaming billionaire. Take a look at her skill as a musician below…
“@willowsmith is the first person in the family to have a song with a BILLION streams!!” he proudly wrote, with Willow responding in the comments: “Love u daddy.”
Others like Tyra Banks, Sharon Stone, and Shonda Rhimes also celebrated the young musician, with Will’s frequent collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff responding: “Listen to what you just said…that’s gangster.”
Willow Smith broke into the music industry in 2010 with the track “Whip My Hair,” also has another song with over 500 million streams, that being her 2020 track from THE ANXIETY (her collaborative project with Tyler Cole), “Meet Me At Our Spot.”
Meanwhile, Will Smith has a pair of tracks with over 300 million streams, all from his debut album, 1997’s Big Willie Style, those being “Miami” and the ever popular “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It.”
Also in the running, however, is Jaden, Will and wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s 25-year-old son, who has a thriving music career that began in 2011. His most streamed song is 2017’s “Icon” from the album SYRE, which has nearly 400 million streams.
“Wait a Minute!” was released as the second and final single from Willow’s debut studio album Ardipithecus, which didn’t make much of a splash when it was released in 2015, similarly to its parent album.
However, in 2019, the song became the soundtrack to the #HereRightNow dance challenge on TikTok and quickly went viral over the early months of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, emerging a sleeper hit on charts worldwide.
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