BANNERS’ ‘Someone To You’ Enters Spotify’s Billions Club

BANNERS has just unlocked a new career milestone. The British musician’s “Someone To You” single has officially joined Spotify’s Billions Club, which celebrates songs that have reached more than one billion views on the streaming platform. This marks his first song to achieve this feat.

“Someone To You,” a hopeful tune about wholeheartedly wanting to commit to a relationship, was originally released in 2017 as a single from BANNERS’ second album, Where the Shadow Ends. It steadily became a sleeper hit, scoring viral success in 2020 due to its popularity on TikTok. In 2022, “Someone To You” was later used as the theme song for Netflix’s Love Is Blind: Japan and the trailer soundtrack for Apple TV+’s animated film Luck.

“I wish I had that insight into how to make people feel whatever they’re feeling because I’d do it again. Sometimes you get to capture lightning in a bottle,” the musician, who was born Michael Joseph Nelson, said of the song’s virality last year. “I was feeling pretty desperate and lonely when I wrote it, and I think even though the song sounds really upbeat, it’s actually pretty existentially desperate. Maybe there’s something to that? That it’s all happy sounding, but it’s kinda just a cry for help. Like ‘Help’ by the Beatles. Loads of Smiths songs too. The opening line is “I don’t wanna die or fade away / I just wanna be someone”. I suppose everyone feels like that, don’t they? You just want to feel like you matter to somebody.”

The song hit No. 11 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40 and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. It’s also a major success worldwide, going 2x platinum status in the U.S. and Brazil, and platinum in countries like Italy, Australia, Belgium, Canada, and the artist’s native U.K.

Following the resurgence of “Someone To You,” BANNERS released a string of projects, including 2021’s It’s Gonna Be OK EP and the 2025 deluxe version of his sophomore album, All Back to Mine.