“Lean On” by Major Lazer & DJ Snake featuring MØ

"Lean On" kicked off Peace Is the Mission, Major Lazer's third album, arriving as its lead single on March 2, 2015, with French producer DJ Snake on board and Danish singer MØ out front. MØ, Diplo, DJ Snake, Tchami and Jr Blender wrote it, and Major Lazer and DJ Snake produced it: moombahton slowed to a sway, EDM with the fists unclenched and the hips let loose.

It went huge: four on the Hot 100, two in the UK, number one from Australia to Mexico. In November 2015 Spotify named it the most streamed song of all time, a crown Drake's "One Dance" took the next year, and IFPI's figures put it fifth among the world's best-selling songs of 2015. The video, shot in Maharashtra, India, and in the Golden Hall of Stockholm City Hall, has racked up billions of YouTube views.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.