The song later reached number four on August 29, 2015, spending 10 consecutive weeks in the top-10. In the United States, 'Lean On' debuted at the bottom of the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated April 25, 2015. 'Lean On' was a global commercial success.

On January 26, 2016, 'Lean On' reached #3 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2015. By Billboard's measure, 'Lean On' was the dance/electronic song of the year.' The prestigious Village Voice ranked 'Lean On' at number 25 on their annual year-end critic's poll. Despite being independently released, the infectious three-minute single became the poster child for dance crossover, dominating both radio and festival play and hitting No. It's rare that a dance record of this quality reaches this level of ubiquity-after all, this is Spotify 's most streamed song of all-time as of Nov. The latter magazine also ranked 'Lean On' at number 3 on its year-end critics' poll for 2015: 'The Grammys got it wrong. Rolling Stone ranked 'Lean On' at number 48 on its year-end list to find the 50 best songs of 2015, while Billboard listed it number one on its Top 10 Dance/Electronic songs of 2015. David Jeffries from AllMusic praised MØ and DJ Snake for helping the track 'deliver the sentimental lyrics and sensual house music at an intoxicating half-speed tempo.' Billboard's Matt Medved called the song and the recent Diplo's collaboration with Skrillex on Jack Ü's ' Where Are Ü Now' 'both innovates and finds crossover appeal', with the first being called 'a pop gloss.' Consequence of Sound 's Michelle Geslani called the song a 'bouncy banger' and complimented MØ's 'siren-like' vocals. Brennan Carley of Spin wrote, 'It's as if No Doubt met the C+C Music Factory'. MØ sounds better than anybody was going to sound on that record.' Critical reception Diplo called this turn of events 'a blessing in disguise. He also offered said arrangement of the song to Nicki Minaj, who turned it down as well. We're super proud of this song.' Diplo offered a slower reggae arrangement of the song to Rihanna, who rejected it. After he did his thing, me, MØ and Blender rewrote the song at the new tempo in Las Vegas and made something very unique that became our album's lead-off single. A year later I remixed the song at a completely different tempo and asked DJ Snake for a signature post chorus. Very big to me but the production was lacking an attitude we needed. Regarding the creative process behind 'Lean On', producer Diplo of Major Lazer said, 'We wrote this song with MØ very early from an instrumental Jr Blender created in some sessions in Trinidad. According to IFPI, 'Lean On' was the fifth best selling song of 2015 worldwide, and one of the best-selling singles of all time, with global sales of 13.1 million. The video premiered on March 23, 2015, and has over 3 billion views on YouTube as of May 2021. The accompanying music video for 'Lean On' was filmed in ND Studios, Karjat, Kaul Heritage City, in Vasai in Maharashtra, India and in the Golden Hall at Stockholm City Hall. In November 2015, 'Lean On' was named by Spotify as the most streamed song of all time, and has over 1 billion streams globally as of June 2017 however, it was later overtaken by Drake's ' One Dance' (2016). It reached number one in several other countries including Argentina, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Mexico and Switzerland as well as the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, France, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden. 'Lean On' was a critical and commercial success, peaking at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart. It is an EDM, electronic and moombahton song. It was written by MØ, Diplo, William Grigahcine, Martin Bresso and Jr Blender, and produced by Major Lazer and DJ Snake.

It was released on March 2, 2015, as the lead single from Major Lazer's third studio album, Peace Is the Mission (2015). ' Lean On' is a song recorded by American electronic dance music group Major Lazer and French DJ and record producer DJ Snake featuring vocals from Danish singer MØ.

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