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Astana, Kazakhstan • 25 July, 2022 | 16:14

Which Kazakh Artist's Song Made It Into Spotify's Global Chart?

No.1 on the Spotify list goes to Kate Bush's 1985 single

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DJ Imanbek’s single “Belly Dancer” continues to ride the wave up the top 100 of Spotify’s Top Songs Global weekly chart, Qazmonitor reports with reference to TengriMIX.

The track featuring Russian electronic dance music artist BYOR stood at No.81 out of 200 on the weekly Spotify chart from July 8-14. “Belly Dancer” reached No.67 on July 16.

The song was released back in February and has been on the chart for seven weeks. According to the music service, “Belly Dancer” has already had more than 8 million streams.

The official music video for the track was released on July 15.

No.1 in the weekly chart goes to Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” due to its feature in the popular Netflix series “Stranger Things”. “As It Was” by Harry Styles takes second place and coming in third is Bizarrap and Quevedo with their track “Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52”.

In January of this year, the Kazakh DJ received an award from Spotify for reaching one-billion streams for his Grammy-winning remix of SAINt JHN’s “Roses”.

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