


Check out the Spotify website for more insight and a nifty infographic. Ariana Grande > Monthly Spotify listeners: 51.8 million > Spotify followers: 81.9 million > Most-streamed song: 7 rings (1.8 billion streams). Take a look at the full lists – both for this year and the past decade – below. The Miami band’s use of Spotify for Artists marketing tools made listeners four times more likely to stream pre-release singles and helped triple the band’s audience in Radio and Autoplay before the album dropped. It’s a similar case for Taylor Swift, who pulled her music from Spotify in 2014 with the release of 1989, only restoring her back catalogue to the service in June 2017.Įither way, the lists still paint a fairly interesting portrait of the pop music landscape over the past decade, when gearing albums towards streaming arguably became top priority for many artists and their labels. How Magic City Hippies Sequenced Marquee, Canvas, and Discovery Mode to Develop Fans Ahead of Their New Album. As The Washington Post acknowledge, it’s important to take this list with a grain of salt, as the stats exist “within a self-constructed reality” and don’t necessarily reflect what people were listening to outside the streaming service.įor instance, Beyoncé’s 2016 album Lemonade was Tidal-exclusive for three years, not reaching Spotify until the middle of this year. Spotify released the data for the most streamed Christmas songs of all-time and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You still reigns supreme.
