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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Dec 3, 2019 17:10:49 GMT -5
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Dec 3, 2019 17:14:05 GMT -5
December 3, 2019
As 2019 draws to a close, so too does a stellar year of streaming on Spotify. You may be reflecting back on the past 12 months, thinking about your own music discoveries and the songs you repeated over, and over, and over. (You’ll be able to check them out on your personal Wrapped cards later this week). We’re doing the same—but for the entire world.
We dove into the newcomers, showstoppers, and top performers who united the globe with music and podcasts this year. And ahead of the brand-new decade, we also looked back on the last 10 years in music to reveal who dominated global listening.
So, what did the world listen to in 2019?
This year, Post Malone claimed the spot of most-streamed artist with over 6.5 billion streams from fans around the globe. It’s the rapper-singer-songwriter’s first time topping Spotify’s Wrapped list, and he did it just 12 weeks after dropping his album Hollywood’s Bleeding (which also happens to be the second most-streamed album globally this year). His collaboration with Swae Lee on “Sunflower” from Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse rounded out the top three most-streamed songs of the year, which gives the artist a spot in each of our three major music categories (top artists, top songs, and top albums).
The second-most-streamed artist of the year is 17-year-old singer-songwriter and first time Grammy nominee Billie Eilish, who by now, definitely deserves that crown. In this year alone, she dropped her album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? and surpassed 6 billion streams. The album has proven to be the top-streamed release of 2019, marking a milestone—Billie is the first female artist to have her album top the Wrapped most-streamed album category. Her dark staccato hit “bad guy” also ranks as the second-most-streamed song of the year.
Finally, Ariana Grande released her immensely popular album thank u, next in February, propelling her to number three on Spotify’s list of most-streamed-artists globally. Her song “7 rings” was also in the top five most streamed this year, giving Ariana a strong two years in the top 10 of Spotify’s Wrapped list. Listeners also showed Taylor Swift lots of love, making her the year’s third top-streamed female artist after her album Lover generated popular tracks like “ME!” and “You Need to Calm Down.”
When it comes to the most-streamed female artist of the decade, Ariana once again takes the cake. Only tears of joy left to cry for this one. (And the top male artist? Last year’s Scorpion king, Drake.)
The year’s top song comes from the duo that took the Northern Hemisphere’s summer by storm: “Señorita” by Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello saw more than 1 billion streams. After “Señorita,” “bad guy,” “Sunflower,” and “7 rings,” the year’s fifth-most-streamed track came from Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus. They took their horse all the way to the front with “Old Town Road – Remix.”
This year was a big one for podcast growth on Spotify. There are now more than 500,000 podcast titles available, and our podcast audience has grown by more than 50% since the start of the year. We’ve also seen a 39% increase in podcast hours consumed by listeners quarter over quarter. People are clearly loving podcasts, tuning in the most to Spotify Original The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory and Mal, followed by My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark and Germany’s Gemischtes Hack. The most-streamed podcast genre of 2019 was comedy, showing that laughter is truly universal.
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Post by tanooki on Dec 3, 2019 21:21:21 GMT -5
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Dec 3, 2019 21:51:18 GMT -5
^Hits included the Decade Spotify Charts as well:
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the most-streamed track of the last 10 years.
yeah, Shape of You is that bitch!!
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Post by Caviar on Dec 3, 2019 22:02:33 GMT -5
Ariana killed it again this year. Congrats to hear for top female artist of the decade.
Can’t wait for my wrapped cards this week.
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Dec 3, 2019 22:05:50 GMT -5
Ariana killed it again this year. Congrats to hear for top female artist of the decade. Can’t wait for my wrapped cards this week. Riri kinda helped her with that, but it's still well-deserved! Those TUN records were massive.
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Post by Caviar on Dec 3, 2019 22:15:26 GMT -5
Ariana killed it again this year. Congrats to hear for top female artist of the decade. Can’t wait for my wrapped cards this week. Riri kinda helped her with that, but it's still well-deserved! Those TUN records were massive. Rih didn’t do anything about that lol.
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Dec 3, 2019 22:28:13 GMT -5
Riri kinda helped her with that, but it's still well-deserved! Those TUN records were massive. Rih didn’t do anything about that lol. You know what I meant to say. lol
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Post by Future Captain on Dec 3, 2019 23:04:24 GMT -5
Ariana came at the exact time that streaming is on its latest peak with her biggest era(s). If Rihanna had released an album in 2018 or early 2019, she would probably be #1. So in a way, Rihanna not doing shit for the last few years does contribute to Ariana being #1 lol.
Also, Taylor being #3 for the decade despite being absent from the service for a decent amount of time is pretty impressive. Then again her closest competition is Sia, which is nowhere near her in term of cumulative success and Beyonce, which is even worse than Taylor in regard of being absent from streaming services.
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 4, 2019 1:33:50 GMT -5
It's interesting that female artists have only recently found the great success in streaming: Camila has two songs over 1BN, Shallow being super close etc, Ariana and Billie challenging Post Malone, Drake and Ed Sheeran for real. It's a good progress!
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Post by crazyb on Dec 4, 2019 21:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by Caviar on Dec 4, 2019 22:55:43 GMT -5
There’s so much to digest! My top song this year was “Boyfriend”. Ariana was my top artist as well as my artist of the decade. There’s so much to unpack with these stats. I’m bummed I went from 35k minutes last year down to 20k this year. That’s totally due to XM Radio. Marren Morris was my most discovered new artist this year. Listened to her 16 hrs total. Omfg! Spotify really outdid themselves this year with the presentations and I’m excited they finally brought back seasons!
I’ll post my overall stats tomorrow and I hope everyone else does as well.
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 5, 2019 2:31:55 GMT -5
My Wrapped was totally uninteresting apart from the fact that I listened to artists from 46 different countries! Thank you Eurovision!!!
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Post by korbel16 on Dec 5, 2019 3:08:27 GMT -5
There’s so much to digest! My top song this year was “Boyfriend”. Ariana was my top artist as well as my artist of the decade. There’s so much to unpack with these stats. I’m bummed I went from 35k minutes last year down to 20k this year. That’s totally due to XM Radio. Marren Morris was my most discovered new artist this year. Listened to her 16 hrs total. Omfg! Spotify really outdid themselves this year with the presentations and I’m excited they finally brought back seasons! I’ll post my overall stats tomorrow and I hope everyone else does as well. she was also my top artist of the year/artist of the decade 💀she really went off this year didn’t she
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Post by Au$tin on Dec 5, 2019 5:22:43 GMT -5
Ariana was also my top artist of the decade (Lizzo took the year), but I've only had premium since literally the week sweetener released, so...
Before I got premium, I only used Spotify to discover new music, never to actually stream from. Once I got premium, I left iTunes behind and went 100% into the streaming world, so my decade stats are waaaaay off due to that. Last.fm agrees with Spotify, Lizzo is my most played artists the past 365 days, but my most played artist this past decade? Taylor Swift.
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Post by Normi on Dec 5, 2019 5:42:37 GMT -5
I have Spotify since late 2012 and Premium since literally New Year's Eve 2017 My stats: 2012: Diamonds - Rihanna 2013: Tennis Court - Rihanna 2014: Only Love Can Hurt Like This (lol?) - Rihanna 2015: Hello - Rihanna 2016: Needed Me - Rihanna 2017: Chained To The Rhythm (for some reason?) - Rihanna 2018: God is a woman - Ariana Grande
Because I didn't have Premium for that long my Top artists of the decade are 1. Ariana Grande 2. Rihanna 3. Chelsea Cutler 4. Bebe Rexha (lol at this) 5. Post Malone
Lol at my top songs of the decade 1. God is a woman 2. no tears left to cry 3. 7 rings 4. breathin 5. What I Need (Hayley Kiyoko f/ Khelani)
#variety
For 2019 my Top artists are 1. Ariana Grande 2. Post Malone 3. Astrid S 4. Chelsea Cutler 5. Rihanna
Pretty obvious tbh I saw 3 and 4 in concert, Rihanna is a legend and the first two ruled 2019
I'm actually pretty ok with my Top songs, it actually seems like they got them correctly for once being 1. 7 rings 2. Old Town Road 3. The First One (Astrid S) 4. Don't Call Me Up 5. Monopoly (oof was way more obsessed with this than I should've been huh) 6. 365 7. Find U Again 8. break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored 9. Doing To Me (Astrid S) 10. All The Time (Zara Larsson) (Ritual, Left Me Yet, How Do You Sleep?, Circles, bad guy, Switch, Not OK, Don't Say, bloodline, All Day And Night - all totally make sense)
My top new artist is Lil Nas X with 16 hours which makes sense looking at OTR's stats and me having Panini on power rotation as well
Positively surprised by this year's wrapped, seems way more accurate
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Post by Kris on Dec 5, 2019 10:22:09 GMT -5
My top songs 2019: Remember feat Zohara - Gryffin Never Really Over - Katy Perry Tie Me Down feat. Elley Duhé - Gryffin ME!- Taylor Swift/Brendon Urie Rescue Me - Marshmallow feat A Day To Remember I'm Not Alright - Loud Luxury feat. Bryce Vine Day Drunk - Morgan Evans Post Malone feat. RANI - Sam Feldt Look What God Gave Her - Thomas Rhett Blue Tacoma - Russell Dickerson (surprisingly lol) Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings Also this I guess:
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Post by Normi on Dec 5, 2019 14:30:15 GMT -5
^ Yaas at the Gryffin tracks!
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Post by crazyb on Dec 5, 2019 14:36:29 GMT -5
Bad Guy Becomes the second song released in 2019 to hit 1 billion streams.
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Post by candypaint on Dec 5, 2019 14:41:10 GMT -5
Only had Spotify premium for a year so my AOTD is null and void lol. Sunflower was my most played song of the year which pushed Swae Lee in my Top 5 most streamed artists of all time so yeah I’ll just pretend my Spotify Wrapped doesn’t exist. My AM year-end was also super odd.
My last.fm is much more accurate.
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Post by forg on Dec 5, 2019 15:12:29 GMT -5
My most streamed song this year on Spotify is Lover! followed by Someone You Loved, Aladdin 2019's A Whole New World (Naomi Scott/Mena Massoud), a Filipino song Pagtingin and Circles
My decade wrapped isn't that accurate because I just started using Spotify in 2015. My artist of the decade is a Filipino band which I just started listening last year so while I loved them, it really isn't accurate as my artist of the decade lol. If I had Spotify for a full decade, my artist of the decade would have likely been Bruno Mars or Adele.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Dec 5, 2019 18:55:44 GMT -5
Drake was streamed 4.6 billion times on Spotify in 2019, an off year for him. Next year will be a movie.
Also, 2019 marks the first year the most streamed artist on Spotify for the year didn't top the previous year.
2014: Ed Sheeran - 860 million streams 2015: Drake - 1.8 billion streams 2016: Drake - 4.7 billion streams 2017: Ed Sheeran - 6.3 billion streams 2018: Drake - 8.2 billion streams 2019: Post Malone - 6.5 billion streams
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Post by Au$tin on Dec 5, 2019 19:00:19 GMT -5
Bad Guy Becomes the second song released in 2019 to hit 1 billion streams. "7 rings" should be song #3 to do so pretty soon.
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 5, 2019 19:07:11 GMT -5
And all 3 are by or feature female artists. Shallow is at 940M, should pass 1BN in February.
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Post by daysintheeast on Dec 5, 2019 19:33:10 GMT -5
Drake was streamed 4.6 billion times on Spotify in 2019, an off year for him. Next year will be a movie. Also, 2019 marks the first year the most streamed artist on Spotify for the year didn't top the previous year. 2014: Ed Sheeran - 860 million streams 2015: Drake - 1.8 billion streams 2016: Drake - 4.7 billion streams 2017: Ed Sheeran - 6.3 billion streams 2018: Drake - 8.2 billion streams 2019: Post Malone - 6.5 billion streams I wonder if they include all the features for the streams
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Post by Future Captain on Dec 5, 2019 20:25:14 GMT -5
My Top Artists of the Decade (I have Spotify since 2015 and immediateky get premium): Lorde My Top Song of the Decade: Taylor Swift - "Style" My Top Album of the Decade: Lorde - "Melodrama" My Top Artist of 2019: Billie Eilish My Top Song of 2019: Duncan Laurence - "Arcade" My Top Abum of 2019: Billie Eilish - "when we all fall asleep where do we go?"
I'll probably edit this to be more comprehensive later
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Post by crazyb on Dec 6, 2019 16:50:53 GMT -5
Did the release of the Year-end Charts have this much of an impact on the Spotify charts or is there something I'm missing?
Edit: maybe it was Spotify wrapped.
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Post by korbel16 on Dec 6, 2019 20:41:47 GMT -5
Seems like a lot of the songs that were on Spotify wrapped jumped a bunch. Especially 7 rings. Also: sunflower back in the the top 10. Dead💀
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Post by sirskimask on Dec 6, 2019 23:16:26 GMT -5
Sunflower returning to the top 10 once again, what a legendary song
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Post by Au$tin on Dec 6, 2019 23:59:47 GMT -5
I wondered if Wrapped was going to cause the old hits to explode again. Pretty cool to see, actually. Similar to how recurrent grow at the end of the year on radio and past hits used to get big gains in digital sales at the end of the year.
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