It is officially sweater weather — and this time, the song itself made history to prove it. The Neighbourhood’s “Sweater Weather” has passed 5 billion streams on Spotify, a milestone the fall anthem reached on Monday, Nov. 2. Only two songs have ever done it before. Now the song that soundtracks every crisp morning, every pumpkin-spice run and every first cold snap of the year sits in the most exclusive club in streaming.

“Sweater Weather” is only the third song ever to pass 5 billion Spotify streams, after The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” and Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You,” according to Spotify, confirmed to Billboard. That makes The Neighbourhood the first band ever to reach the mark with a single song — no feature, no remix rescue, just the track that has refused to leave us alone for more than a decade.

If it feels like the song is everywhere, that is because it is. “Sweater Weather” is also Spotify’s most-playlisted song of all time, appearing on more than 103 million user-created playlists. It is the song for drives, for study sessions, for rainy days, for that exact moment when the leaves turn and your hoodie finally comes out of the closet again.

The track was originally released in 2012, long before it became a TikTok phenomenon. It peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard Alternative Airplay. Then TikTok found it in 2020, a new generation claimed it, and it has resurfaced every fall since — proof that some songs do not age, they just wait for the season to catch up with them.

The band is not just living off the past, either. The Neighbourhood released a new holiday single, “Why’d You Have To Leave,” on Nov. 6 via Reprise/Warner Records, giving fans something brand-new just as the old favourite hits its biggest number yet. It is a neat bit of timing: the song that defines autumn arrives with a new track just in time for the holidays.

The milestone lands during a major comeback year. The band returned in 2025 after a five-year hiatus with their fifth album, (((((ultraSOUND))))), and are now on the final leg of the sold-out Wourld Tour, closing with two Kia Forum shows in early December. For fans closer to home, they play Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Nov. 19 — but this week, the story is the streams, not the stage.

So, where were you when you first heard “Sweater Weather”? Was it 2012, was it a TikTok in 2020, or did it sneak onto your playlist this fall without you even noticing? Tell us in the comments — and be honest: is it already on your fall playlist, or are you still pretending you are not about to play it on repeat until spring?

Sources: The Music Universe and Melodic Magazine.

The Neighbourhood live in 2018 — photo by 2eight / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)