Spotify reveals its top tracks of 2019 and charts the Top Songs, Artists, Playlists and Podcasts of this year and the last decade in a recent blog posting. This year, Post Malone was the most-streamed artist with over 6.5 Bn streams worldwide. 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 Spotify’s 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 Billie Eilish. In this year her album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? surpassed 6 Bn streams. The album is 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.
Ariana Grande released her 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 two years in the top 10 of Spotify’s Wrapped list. Taylor Swift was the year’s third top-streamed female artist after her album Lover generated popular tracks like ‘ME!’ and ‘You Need to Calm Down.’
Arian was the most streamed female artist of the decade with Drake taking top male artist honours.
The year’s top song was ‘Señorita‘ by Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello with more than 1 Bn 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.’
There are now more than 500,000 podcast titles available, and Spotify’s podcast audience has grown by more than 50% since the start of the year. There was also a 39% increase in podcast hours consumed by listeners quarter on quarter. The Spotify Original The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory and Mal was the most popular podcast 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.
Next week will see the launch of the Wrapped microsite where you can get a playlist based on your year’s listening habits.
Spotify’s Global Top Lists 2019
Most-Streamed Artists
Most-Streamed Female Artists
Most-Streamed Male Artists
Most-Streamed Tracks
‘Señorita’ – Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes
‘Sunflower’ – Post Malone, Swae Lee
‘Old Town Road – Remix’ – Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus
Most-Streamed Albums
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? – Billie Eilish
Hollywood’s Bleeding – Post Malone
No.6 Collaborations Project – Ed Sheeran
Most-Streamed Podcasts
The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory & Mal
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Most-Streamed Spotify Original Podcasts
The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory & Mal
‘A Decade Wrapped’ Spotify’s Top Lists 2010–2019
Most-Streamed Artists of the Decade (Global)
Most-Streamed Female Artists of the Decade (Global)
Most-Streamed Male Artists of the Decade (Global)
Most-Streamed Tracks of the Decade (Global)
‘One Dance’ – Drake, Kyla, WizKid
‘rockstar (feat. 21 Savage)’ – 21 Savage, Post Malone
‘Closer’ – Halsey, The Chainsmokers
‘Thinking out Loud’ – Ed Sheeran
