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The APRA billion streams list or The 1,000,000,000 list was established in 2019 by APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) to acknowledge Australasian songwriters whose works have achieved one billion (1,000,000,000) streams on various services.[1] Streaming services used for the list include Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Play, Spotify, Vevo, and YouTube.[1]
Australian-born singer-songwriter Sia is the most prolific writer on the list,[2] with a total of 15 entries, as from October 2022.[3]
| Year | Song(s) | Writer(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | "Friends" | Nat Dunn | [1] |
| "Be Alright" | |||
| "Never Be Like You" | Harley Streten p.k.a. Flume | ||
| "This Girl" |
| ||
| "Call on Me" | |||
| "Youth" | |||
| 2020 | "Dance Monkey" | Toni Watson p.k.a. Tones and I | |
| "Youngblood" | |||
| "Whatever It Takes", "Young Dumb & Broke" | Joel Little | ||
|
Sarah Aarons | ||
| "Somebody That I Used to Know" | Wouter de Backer p.k.a. Gotye | ||
| "Riptide" | James Keogh p.k.a. Vance Joy | ||
| "In My Mind" |
| ||
| Sia Furler p.k.a. Sia | |||
| "Bad" | Vassy Karagiorgos
p.k.a. Vassy | ||
| 2021 | "Needed Me" |
| |
| "The Less I Know the Better" | Kevin Parker | [4] | |
| "Astronaut in the Ocean" | Harry Michael and Tyron Hapi | [5] | |
| "Company" | Leroy Clampitt and James Wong | [3] | |
| "Royals" | Lorde and Joel Little | ||
| "Me!" | Joel Little | ||
| "Break My Heart" | Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence | ||
| "Heaven" | Lindsay Rimes | ||
| 2022 | "Supalonely" | Benee and Josh Fountain | |
| "Head & Heart" | John Courtidis | ||
| "Just a Dream" | David Ryan Harris | ||
| "Wild Ones", "Flashlight", "Thunderclouds", "Flames", "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)", "Try Everything" | Sia | ||
| "Down Under" | Colin Hay | [6] | |
| "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" | Nicholas Littlemore, Peter Mayes and Sam Littlemore | ||
| 2023 | "July" | PJ Harding | |
| "Love Tonight" | Shouse (Jack Madin and Ed Service) | ||
| "Go Crazy" | Trè Samuels | ||
| 2024 | "Walking on a Dream" | Nicholas Littlemore, Luke Steele and Jonathan Sloan | |
| "You Say" | Paul Mabury | ||
| "Freaks" | Ivan Gough, Timothy Jude Smith p.k.a. Timmy Trumpet, Jeremy Alexander Bunawan, Mathieu Francois E Valton and Demetrius Christian Savelio p.k.a. Savage |