Spotify streams
2,222,439,096
Spotify's lifetime play count for this recording, read 2 Nov 2026, 13:40 UTC.
- Popularity
- 87 / 100
- Spotify's 0–100 score
- Charting today
- 1 market
History
Play count history
One reading so far: 2,222,439,096 plays on 2 Nov 2026. A reading is added each day the store refreshes, and the change per day is drawn from the second one on.
| Day (UTC) | Lifetime plays | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2,222,439,096 | First reading |
Spotify Charts
On the charts today
1 position across 1 market, from each market's latest chart in the store. Streams are the chart's own count for its day.
| Chart | Rank | Streams that day |
|---|---|---|
| Germany Top 200 | #197 | 75,407 |
Track details
- Album
- Millennium
- Released
- Track number
- 2
- Duration
- 3:33
- Explicit
- No
- ISRC
- USJI19910614
- Tempo
- 99 BPM
- Language
- English
Genres
- Pop
- Bubblegum Pop
- Pop Rock
- Children's Music
- Dance Pop
Moods
- Nostalgia
- Happy
Tempo, language, genres, moods and credits are the API's track insights, strongest first, read .
Credits
- Main Artist
- Backstreet Boys
- Producer
- Max Martin, Kristian Lundin
- Composer
- Andreas Carlsson, Max Martin
- Lyricist
- Andreas Carlsson, Max Martin
More by Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys's other tracks this site keeps a page for, most played first. Backstreet Boys's artist page
For developers
Get I Want It That Way's play count from the API
One request returns the play count above as JSON: GET /tracks?ids=47BBI51FKFwOMlIiX6m8ya&include=playcount. Read its reference.
For many tracks, GET /tracks takes up to 50 ids in one call.
Get your own key
No code: Spotify Play Count Scraper on Apify (opens in a new tab) exports play counts for a list of links to CSV or JSON. How play counts work.
| curl -X GET \ |
| "https://spotify-proxy.checkleaked.cc/spotify-data/tracks?ids=47BBI51FKFwOMlIiX6m8ya&include=playcount" \ |
| -H "x-rapidapi-key: $SPOTIFY_API_KEY" |
Frequently asked questions
How many streams does I Want It That Way have on Spotify?
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys had 2,222,439,096 streams on Spotify as of 2 Nov 2026 (UTC). The count is Spotify's own lifetime play count for this recording.
When was I Want It That Way released?
18 May 1999, on the album Millennium.
Who wrote and produced I Want It That Way?
Producers: Max Martin and Kristian Lundin. Composers: Andreas Carlsson and Max Martin. Lyricists: Andreas Carlsson and Max Martin.
What genre is I Want It That Way?
The API's track insights tag it Pop, Bubblegum Pop and Pop Rock, strongest first.
What is the tempo of I Want It That Way?
99 BPM, from the API's track insights.