Spotify Wrapped

Shafe Asghar, Writer

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The 2010’s are almost at it’s end, so Spotify gave us all a little gift. From 2010 to 2019, you’ve likely listened to all different types of music on Spotify. That’s why this year, their not only bringing back their annual personalized Spotify Wrapped, but also showcasing users’ listening throughout the last decade. That means this year, everyone will get their own playlist based on their favorite things to listen to. Wrapped will include the songs, albums, artists, and podcasts you discovered throughout the 2010 to 2019. It will also include how long you’ve used spotify each year. It’s “Wrapped” but with more nostalgia than ever before.

This year, Post Malone claimed the spot of most-streamed artist with over 6.5 billion streams from fans around the globe. 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. His collaboration with Swae Lee on “Sunflower” from Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse rounded out the top three most-streamed songs of the year. The second-most-streamed artist of the year is 17-year-old singer-songwriter and first time Grammy nominee Billie Eilish. Her hit song “bad guy” ranks as the second-most-streamed song of the year. Ariana Grande released her extremely popular album thank u, next in February, making her number three on Spotify’s list of most-streamed-artists globally. 

The year’s top song comes from the duo that took the Northern Hemisphere’s summer by storm: “Señorita” by Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello saw more than 1 billion 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.

This year was also big for podcast growth on Spotify. There are now more than 500,000 podcast titles available, and their podcast audience has grown by more than 50% since the start of the year. There has also been a 39% increase in podcast hours consumed by listeners. 

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