The two most popular songs across all digital music platforms have been “Ripple” and “Friend of the Devil”<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Grateful Dead<\/a> catalog saw a significant surge on streaming services after news hit of Bob Weir<\/a>\u2018s death. In the five day period of Jan. 9 to the 13, according to numbers compiled by Luminate, there were 9.5 million On-Demand Audio streams of their music, compared to 6.2 million during the period of Jan. 2 to 8 of 2025. That\u2019s an increase of 53 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe most steamed songs in America were \u201cRipple\u201d (up six percent over last year) and \u201cFriend of the Devil\u201d (up 26 percent over last year).\u00a0Neither were originally sung by Weir.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe streaming spike is part of a much broader celebration of Weir and the Grateful Dead that has taken place over the past four days. \u201cThere are so many people who can rightfully say that their life would not have been the same without Bob Weir,\u201d Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann said in a statement. <\/a>\u201cThat\u2019s been true for me since I was 17. And through it all, the high times and the low tides, my love for him will not, indeed can not, fade away.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tTrey Anastasio felt the same way. \u201cThe more I got to know Bobby, the more I liked him,\u201d he wrote in a moving tribute on Instagram.<\/a> \u201cI learned so much from him\u2026He just loved playing, and I loved that about him. I don\u2019t think he ever got caught up in the bigness. I don\u2019t think it meant anything to him. There were times when I was talking to him when I thought he was the last actual hippie.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe news of Weir\u2019s death was stunning to most Deadheads since they had no idea he was ill, and he participated in the Grateful Dead\u2019s 60th anniversary concerts last August in San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park. They were his final public performances.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThose performances, emotional, soulful, and full of light, were not farewells, but gifts,\u201d his family wrote in a statement.<\/a> \u201cAnother act of resilience. An artist choosing, even then, to keep going by his own design. As we remember Bobby, it\u2019s hard not to feel the echo of the way he lived. A man driftin\u2019 and dreamin\u2019, never worrying if the road would lead him home. A child of countless trees. A child of boundless seas.\u201d<\/p>\n \t