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His 2005 chart-topping hit becomes his second track to surpass one billion plays on the streaming platform

Dancehall superstar Sean Paul has reached another historic milestone as his 2005 smash ‘Temperature’ surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. The achievement makes it his second track to enter the streaming platform’s prestigious Billions Club, following ‘No Lie’ featuring Dua Lipa.

This milestone arrives as ‘The Trinity’—the album that birthed ‘Temperature’—celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. Released by VP Records/Atlantic Records, the GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum project featured hits like ‘We Be Burnin’’ and ‘Give It Up to Me’, cementing Sean Paul’s dominance in the mid-2000s and becoming one of the best-selling Dancehall albums of all time.

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“Love to know that 20 years later, ‘Temperature’ still strong and potent and providing the service of making people feel good—that is what make me feel good”, says Sean Paul. “Big up to everyone involved, and may the music live on.”

With this achievement, Sean Paul joins Bob Marley and The Wailers as one of the only Reggae/Dancehall artists to have multiple songs in Spotify’s Billions Club, an elite list of fewer than one-thousand songs to ever reach the milestone.

Originally topping the Billboard Hot 100, ‘Temperature’ became the most popular song in America when it hit #1, marking Sean Paul’s third United Starts chart-topper after Beyoncé’s ‘Baby Boy’ and ‘Get Busy’. Produced by Rohan ‘Snowcone’ Fuller on the ‘Applause’ Riddim, the song remains a cultural touchstone, resonating with millions two decades after its release.

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