Top 10 Most-streamed Songs on Spotify
Spotify is one of the reference music apps. With the change in business model and the almost daily publication of new songs without publishing in studio ... read more...albums, the streaming platform remains #1 in its field. Today is a bustling era in the world music industry, in the age of streaming, music streaming platforms have become a "promising land" for many artists to roam freely. As the largest music streaming platform, at the end of each year, Spotify analyzes how the world listens to music this year, announcing the most listened to albums and songs. Every year, some familiar song titles have also appeared in the rankings, and there are also many surprising names. So, to see how the music industry is doing, it would be interesting to take a look at Spotify's most streamed songs.
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The phenomenal song "Shape of You" by male vocalist Ed Sheeran is the owner. This outcome is not altogether unexpected considering that the second song from the Divide album once peaked at number one in 44 different countries after its release. The song that receives the most Spotify streams belongs to Ed Sheeran. Following its debut, "Shape of You" helped Ed Sheeran set a lot of new records. The song peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in her career and spent 12 weeks atop the Spotify Hot 100 as well as the iTunes Charts in 81 different countries.
The first single to be released following Ed Sheeran's comeback is "Shape Of You". The song belongs to the third studio album "Divide", co-written by Ed and producers Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac. Thanks to "Shape of You", the British singer also raised the total number of online streams of his songs on Spotify to 10 billion, bringing him a huge revenue of approximately 100 million USD.
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Similar to "Shape of you" somehow "One Dance" by Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla fell to second place, but it still made more than tens of millions of dollars via Spotify. This figure is guessed based on Spotify's profit-sharing policy. This is a classic Drake narrative, "One Dance" is built on the feelings of a romantic conflict over a medium, usually a contemporary technology instrument like a phone or the Internet.
One Dance, which was released in mid-April 2016, quickly became popular all over the world. The song's enormous success can be attributed to its memorable melody, direct appeal to the heart, and suitability for various activities like running and driving. Many publications, including Billboard, GQ, and many more, have ranked 3 as a 2016 summer song. With this hit alone, it has continued to confirm his position in the contemporary music scene.
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Post Malone has never allowed itself to miss an appearance on such esteemed lists since exploding to become one of the most renowned 9x stars of today. Although it is the "youngest" hit on the list (Rockstar was published on September 15, 2017), this song by Post Malone and his pal 21 Savage, "takedown", showed his extraordinary boldness by exceeding many other well-known artists. As of December 2019, it ranked third on Spotify with more than 1.75 billion views. DaBaby and Roddy Ricch are establishing their interest in this collaboration by defeating other rivals.
According to data from Nielsen Music, "Rockstar" received 35.7 million streams on online music services in the preceding week in the US market alone. This achievement also pushes online music sales to 12,000 copies. With a steady performance, “Rockstar” fully deserves to keep DaBaby and Roddy Ricch firmly at the top most-streamed song on Spotify. Besides, this song is also dominating both Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.
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Adjacent to Rockstar is the biggest hit in both Halsey's and The Chainsmokers' careers so far - Closer. With more than 1.66 billion views on Spotify, Closer is currently ranked 4th on the list of the most streamed songs in Spotify history. This is a successful collaboration between Hasley and The Chainsmokers.
In addition to being one of the longest-lasting hits on Spotify Hot Streamed, Closer is one of the few singles to be awarded a Diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America for its exceptional performance with more than 10 million units sold alone. The song is about a man who becomes irrational when he sees the girl he loves again since their relationship is still very strong. The MV's visual is not spectacular, but rather quite genuine, like a moment captured on a phone, and it makes a big impression on youthful people.
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The song "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae from the soundtrack to the well-known film "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" has reportedly overtaken the longest time other songs in the charts, according to the most recent update from Spotify. In the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart's Top 10 "Sunflower" which previously held positions Nos. 7 and 8, has spent a record-breaking 45 weeks at No. 1 on this chart.
The story of Sunflower focus on a story boy's love for a girl who is compared to a sunflower, a flower that stands for endurance, fidelity, optimism, and strength. The man had to set aside his emotions despite the fact that it was probably the right decision for both of them. Ashlen Diaz is Post Malone's purported girlfriend, which might have inspired this song. It is seen as a tragic tale but told with an optimistic attitude the song has created excitement for the audience.
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Many artists have had to "scratch their skin" to stay on this chart up to this point due to the incredibly intense volatility, month by month, week by week, day by day, and even hour by hour present. In spite of this, these Bad Guy identities possess numerous tracks that "stay strongly" on Spotify's Top stream, with billions of streams.
On March 29, 2019, "Bad Guy" was made available via Darkroom and Interscope Records. Billie Eilish's song has a "boom" according to Stereogum's Chris DeVille, who also likened her to Lorde. Uproxx's Chloe Gilke listened while calling the music a "pop-trap melody". It is a captivating piece of artwork. From the moment it debuted, "Bad Guy" had a significant impact on the music lover.
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Camila Cabello's name rose like a kite in the wind after Senorita. Because of the extensive attention, she and her ex-boyfriend Shawn Mendes rose to prominence on music and video streaming websites. Senorita has helped Camila Cabello establish a record for Spotify streams that no other artist has been able to match over these years. As a result, the singer born in 1997 is the first and only female artist in Spotify history to have two songs with 1 billion or more streams as the main vocalist as of the present.
Senorita, a breakthrough song that has received more than 565 million listens since its release in June 2019, has topped Spotify's global Top 50 chart for 8 weeks in a row. In particular, the song has 1.1 billion streams after half a year and is now the song published in 2019 with the highest stream records. Fascinatingly, former US President Barack Obama also posted on Twitter the summer 2019 playlist he and his wife enjoy. The Obamas' Summer Favorites Playlist features a wide range of music by iconic bands and well-known singer-songwriters in genres like rock n' roll, R&B, and hip hop including the hit songs Senorita.
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"Lean On" produced by Major Lazer in collaboration with DJ Snake has surpassed "Thinking Out Loud" (Ed Sheeran) to become the most streamed song of all time on Spotify. Dubbed the hit of the summer of 2015, "Lean On" comes from the collaboration of A-list names in the EDM world: the trio of Major Lazer, DJ Snake, and MØ not only stormed the charts large and small but also dominated clubs and music festivals around the world.
Success continues success, after being selected by Spotify as the summer song and certified platinum in August of this year, "Lean On" still shows no sign of decreasing its popularity, continuing to surpass many previous popular songs to become the most streamed song on Spotify with 526 million streams globally. In addition, the MV of "Lean On" has also reached more than 767 million views on Youtube and shows no sign of stopping.
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Despacito is a Latin song, but it's becoming spread and popular all over the world. Most recently, it surpassed the music of more seasoned artists to become the song that gets "streamed" the most online. Despite only needing six months to exceed other English songs thanks to this accomplishment. Despacito means "slowly" in Spanish, however, it is not slow at all.
The fact that Despacito is not in English which is the most widely spoken language, however, it has broken records in such a short period of time since its January 2017 release makes it exceptional. 92% of the 4,6 billion streams total originate from Spotify and YouTube, the two most widely used platforms. Over 2.6 billion streams originated from YouTube while the streams for the original and remix versions on Spotify were 1.1 billion. Perhaps the day when Despacito rose to number 1 is not far away.
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The Weeknd has released "Blinding Lights", the second single from his fourth studio album, "After Hours". The song debuted at number 11 – but after four weeks the product was able to stay at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 30, 2020. On Monday (September 6), Chart Data was available on Twitter reports that The Weeknd's hit "Blinding Lights" has just hit 3 billion streams on Spotify, and it's also the only song in history to reach this rare milestone "so fast".
Only eight songs have reached 2 billion streams on Spotify so far, and “Blinding Lights” is one of the records to do so. “Blinding Lights” is a tune about a guy who has developed a strong emotional dependence on his romantic interest. And the reason he's appeared so vulnerable in the first place seems to be that he's endured a toxic relationship before, in addition to being single for so long.