Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny lead Spotify’s all-time streaming list
MANILA, Philippines — Audio streaming platform Spotify marked its 20th anniversary by releasing its Top 20 all-time lists for most-streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts and audiobooks.
Familiar names pop up in each category like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Joe Rogan, who’ve topped the annual lists since Spotify began releasing them alongside its Wrapped feature.
“It’s a definitive look at what the world has actually listened to since Spotify launched,” the platform said in a statement. “Drawn from years of listening across hundreds of millions of fans, these lists capture the music and stories that didn’t just break through, but stayed, becoming part of everyday life around the world.”
Taylor and Bad Bunny both took the Nos 1. and 2 spots on the “Most Streamed Artists of All Time” list, with Drake, The Weeknd and Ariana Grande rounding off the Top 5.
They are followed by a mix of pop singers and rappers like Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, Eminem, Kanye West and Travis Scott, with K-pop boy band BTS figuring at No. 12.
Filipino-American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars figured at No. 14 while rappers Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Juice WRLD take up the list’s last three spots.
On the albums list however, it was Bad Bunny that came up on top as the Puerto Rican’s 2022 album “Un Verano Sin Ti” — at 22 billion total streams to date — pipped The Weeknd’s “Starboy”, though the latter’s “After Hours” did come in at No. 5.
Another Filipino-American singer-songwriter, Olivia Rodrigo, saw her debut album “Sour” come in at No. 4 behind the deluxe version of Sheeran’s “÷ (Divide)”.
Taylor’s highest-ranked album is “Lover” at No. 8 and has a second appearance with “Midnights” at No. 18, the latter three spots behind Mars’ own debut album “Doo-Wops & Hooligans.”
Also with two appearances are Bad Bunny with “YHLQMDLG” (No. 15) and Drake with “Views” and “Scorpions” flanking “Midnights,” while The Weeknd scored a rare third as “Beauty Behind the Madness” capped off the list.
The Weeknd again makes a double appearance on the “Most Streamed Songs of All Time” list with “Blinding Lights” topping the lot and “Starboy” featuring Daft Punk coming in at No. 4.
Others listed in the Top 5 of that list were Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (No. 2), The Neighbourhood’s “Sweater Weather” (No. 3), and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” (No. 5).
Sheeran has a second appearance as his “Perfect” landed at No. 9. Eilish is the other artist with double showings with Khalid collab “Lovely” at No. 14 and “Birds of a Feather” at No. 18 while Mars’ collab with Lady Gaga “Die With A Smile” just made it at No. 20.
“The Joe Rogan Experience” unsurprisingly topped the “Most Streamed Podcasts of All Time” list ahead of “Gemischtes Hack”, “Crime Junkie" Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert”, and “Last Podcast on the Left”.
For audiobooks, Sarah J. Maas’ “A Court of Thorns and Roses” finished ahead of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring”, both joined in the Top 5 by Rebecca Yarros’ “Fourth Wing”, Jennette McCurdy’s “I’m Glad My Mom Died” and another Maas book “A Court of Mist and Fury”.
Two other of Maas’ books from the same made it to the list — “A Court of Wings and Rain” at No. 7 and “A Court of Silver Flames” at No. 16 — while Yarros had another entry with “Iron Flame” at No. 10.
Freida McFadden also has two appearances with “The Housemaid” (No. 9) and “The Boyfriend” (No. 18). Other familiar titles are the Britney Spears memoir “The Woman in Me” (No. 11), George R.R. Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” (No. 12), Coleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us” (No. 14), Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” (No. 15) and Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” (No. 17).
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