X Ambassadors have reached a major streaming milestone with "Renegades," which has now passed one bi

X Ambassadors have reached a major streaming milestone with "Renegades," which has now passed one billion streams on Spotify.

Originally released in 2015, the song became one of the band's biggest breakthrough moments and helped introduce X Ambassadors to a much wider audience. "Renegades" appeared on their debut album, VHS, and quickly grew beyond alternative radio into a full crossover hit.

The track climbed to No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and became a regular presence on mainstream radio, pop playlists and commercial campaigns. Its mix of alternative rock, pop hooks and anthemic production helped make it one of the more recognizable crossover songs of the mid-2010s.

More than a decade later, the billion-stream milestone shows just how durable "Renegades" has been. Songs can have a huge radio moment and then fade, but this one continued finding listeners long after its original chart run.

For X Ambassadors, the achievement adds another major career marker to the song that helped establish the Ithaca, New York band on a national level.

"Renegades" remains closely tied to the sound of 2010s alternative-pop crossover, when songs from alternative radio were regularly breaking into mainstream playlists and reaching much broader audiences.

Where does "Renegades" rank for you among the biggest alternative crossover songs of the 2010s?