Spotify remains the world’s most popular streaming service.
It has a user base of 113 million paying subscribers, and as the old compact disc slowly fades out of existence it’s only going to get bigger.
Don’t throw your CDs away just yet, though. If we survive climate change, some future hipster generation will likely take them off your hands for a pretty penny.
As the decade draws to a close, let’s go over to The Guardian to look at what everyone was listening to over the last 10 years on Spotify.
- Drake has been named as the most-streamed artist of the decade on Spotify, with over 28 billion streams.
- Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ was the most-streamed song, with 2,3 billion streams.
- Drake’s track ‘One Dance’ was runner up to Shape of You, with the top five songs rounded out by Post Malone’s ‘rockstar’, The Chainsmokers’ ‘Closer’ and another Sheeran song, ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
- Sheeran, Post Malone, Ariana Grande, and Eminem were the other most-streamed artists.
TIME picked their best songs of the decade two weeks ago, but here’s what peeps on Spotify have been listening to in 2019:
- The most-streamed song of 2019 was Señorita by Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes, which scored more than 1 billion streams.
- Billie Eilish’s ‘Bad Guy’ snapped up second place with 990 million streams.
- Eilish’s album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go was the most streamed album of the year.
- Post Malone was the most streamed artist globally. His album Hollywood’s Bleeding was the second most-streamed after Eilish’s.
In case you needed reminding, Post Malone is the same guy who was once described as looking like “he crawled out of a primordial swamp of nacho cheese”.
He also did a rather awful collaboration with Crocs.
Don’t let us stop you from listening to his music, though.
[source:guardian]
