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# Bowie Spotify Streams Jump 42% After Space X Launch
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/bowie-spotify-streams-jump-42-after-space-x-launch/
- Published: 2018-02-07T12:28:17.000Z
- Updated: 2018-02-07T12:28:17.000Z
- Description: After Tuesday's triumphant launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket by Elon Musk's SpaceX, David Bowie streams jumped 42% on Spotify globally. The launch of the rocket, which features a dummy. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/02/bowie-spotify-streams-jump-42-after-space-x-launch.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, Amazon, Apple, Apple Music, Google, music, music industry, Music Tech, musician, musicians, Pandora, Spotify, Tech Stories, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:05

[![David Bowie](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb09f12870970d-200wi "David Bowie")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb09f12870970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)After Tuesday's triumphant launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket by Elon Musk's SpaceX, David Bowie streams jumped 42% on Spotify globally. The launch of the rocket, which features a dummy sitting in a Tesla Roaster listening to David Bowie, prompted a surge in streams of the late singer's space-themed repertoire:

**· Life On Mars? +332%**

**· Space Oddity +188%**

**· Starman +181%**

You can listen to a collection of David Bowie's greatest songs on the playlist, [This Is: David Bowie](https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWTTthpScXd3v?si=Ky9AFqa9RzWQ%5FkjkLrephQ&ref=hypebot.com)*\*Increases were calculated by comparing global streams during the hour immediately after the launch with the same time period the previous week.*