{"id":8218,"date":"2024-07-09T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2024-07-09T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:41:05","slug":"kisss-i-was-made-for-lovin-you-surpasses-one-billion-streams-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8218","title":{"rendered":"KISS’s ‘I Was Made For Lovin’ You’ Surpasses One Billion Streams On SPOTIFY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KISS<\/strong>‘s classic song “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”<\/strong> has joined Spotify<\/strong>‘s “Billions Club”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billions Club is a playlist first launched in 2020 which includes all of the songs on\u00a0Spotify<\/strong>\u00a0that have surpassed one billion streams on the platform. After the achievement,\u00a0Spotify<\/strong>\u00a0gifts artists the Billions Club plaque.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“I Was Made For Lovin’ You”<\/strong>\u00a0joins other tracks \u2014 including\u00a0METALLICA<\/strong>‘s\u00a0“Nothing Else Matters”<\/strong>,\u00a0AEROSMITH<\/strong>‘s\u00a0“Dream On”<\/strong>,\u00a0SURVIVOR<\/strong>‘s\u00a0“Eye Of The Tiger”<\/strong>,\u00a0PAPA ROACH<\/strong>‘s\u00a0“Last Resort”<\/strong>,\u00a0GUNS N’ ROSES<\/strong>‘\u00a0“Paradise City”<\/strong>,\u00a0BON JOVI<\/strong>‘s\u00a0“You Give Love A Bad Name”<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0EVANESCENCE<\/strong>‘s\u00a0“Bring Me To Life”<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 to be featured in\u00a0Spotify<\/strong>‘s “Billions Club”. The milestone has reportedly been achieved by at least 500 songs so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I Was Made for Lovin’ You”<\/strong> originally appeared on KISS<\/strong>‘s 1979 album “Dynasty”<\/strong>. It was released as the A-side of their first single from the album. It was the band’s second gold single, selling over 1 million copies. The single reached No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard<\/strong> singles chart. The song also became a Top 10 hit in Australia, reaching No. 6 on the ARIA<\/strong> charts in 1979. The song fared the best in Western Europe (Where it became a Top 20 hit in Sweden, a Top 10 hit in Norway, made it to the No. 2 position in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, and in Holland it became a No. 1 smash).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, KISS<\/strong> bassist\/vocalist Gene Simmons<\/strong> said that he hated performing “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”<\/strong> because he was forced to sing like his grandmother. Asked in an interview with OK!<\/strong> magazine to name a song that he wasn’t initially crazy about that ended up becoming a hit, Gene<\/strong> said: “Well, Paul Stanley<\/strong> comes in and he says, ‘Did you write any songs?’ I go, ‘Oh, yeah. I’ve got one called ‘Almost Human’<\/strong>.’ ‘Yeah? How does it go?’ ‘I’m almost human. I can’t help feelin’ strange.’ ‘Yeah, that’s cool. That’s a Gene<\/strong> song.’ ‘How about you, Paul<\/strong>?’ He goes, ‘I’ve got one. [It goes] ‘Tonight.” “Ooooh. That’s cool. What’s the next line?’ ‘I’m gonna give it all to you.’ ‘Oh, yeah. I know what ‘it’ means \u2014 I know exactly<\/em> what you mean.’ ‘In the darkness.’ [Claps<\/em>] ‘Love that!’ ‘There something I wanna do.’ ‘Yeah, I know what that ‘something’ is. Wow! That’s a cool song. Okay, what’s my part?’ [Sings<\/em>] ‘Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.’ ‘You’re killing me. Really? I’m gonna sing like my grandmother?’ [Sings<\/em>] ‘Do, do, do\u2026’ I hate playing that song to [this] day. Stadiums full of people jump up and down like biblical locusts \u2014 they go nuts \u2014 with tattoos and grills on\u2026 ‘Ahhhh!’ They’re all jumping up and down, and I’m going, ‘Do, do, do, do, do, do\u2026 Kill me now.’ Still \u2014 still to this day I hate that song.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the female interviewer pressed him on whether the song ever grew on him after performing it for the last four decades,\u00a0Gene<\/strong>\u00a0said: “Well, how about you sing that song? You’re a girl. I wanna sing guy stuff.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanley<\/strong>\u00a0admitted in 2017 that the success of\u00a0“I Was Made For Lovin’ You”<\/strong>\u00a0was “a double-edged sword, because it became such a massive hit but it was also so contrary and contradictory to what we had done before.” He added: “The funniest thing is when we do festivals sometimes in Europe where it’s very much\u2026 the bands are quite heavy, well, when we do an encore of\u00a0‘I Was Made For Lovin’ You’<\/strong>, you suddenly have all these people with spikes in their eyeballs or bones through their noses singing along. So it’s a song that seems to transcend everything \u2014 although it went through a period, certainly, of a big backlash against it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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