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You can play along with the video in GCEA tuning if you put your capo on the 3rd fret! I've left out some of the overlapping minor back-up vocals in two of the lines, just for ease of group play. Thanks to Chris Hill for bringing this song to BUG!
"Blinding Lights" was written by the Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye), Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Belly (Ahmad Balshe), and DaHeala (Jason Quenneville).
"Blinding Lights" received universal acclaim by music journalists upon release, with many noting its aesthetic, as well as its callback to the music of the 1980s. The song was a commercial success, topping the record charts in over 40 countries, including his native Canada, making it his most successful single to date. In the United States, "Blinding Lights" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four non-consecutive weeks, earning his fifth #1 in the country. It became the song with the most weeks spent in the top five and top ten and the first song to hold a spot in the top ten for an entire year.
It was the longest-charting song in history for a short period of time, remaining on it for a total of 90 weeks, and was named as the chart's best-performing song of all time on November 23, 2021. On Spotify, it is the most streamed song of all time, and the first song to surpass four and five billion streams. "Blinding Lights" was performed on the Weeknd's headlining set at the Super Bowl LV halftime show. The song received many awards and nominations, winning Song of the Year at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards and at the Juno Awards of 2021.