

This year's Spotify Wrapped is based on the theme of ‘totally normal' - to celebrate the unprecedented time owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the dedicated Wrapped experience for mobile users, Spotify has released the top lists for both India and global markets to highlight the top songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts, as well as the most streamed artist on the platform. The personalised user experience, which the platform has been releasing for the last three years since 2019 on the first day of December, features top artists, albums, songs, playlists, and podcasts that you have played throughout the year. Remember, it’s just one streaming platform.Spotify 2021 Wrapped is now live. To uncover the top songs, podcasts and a rocking comeback from Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody was the top streamed song not released in the past decade – Spotify “dove into the newcomers, showstoppers, and top performers who united the globe with music and podcasts this year,” it said.Īpart from our preferences for playlists – feelgood, followed by lit and relaxed – here’s the biggest takeaways. Ariana Grande with the “love of my life” in November. Rounding out the top three is Ariana Grande, 26, thanks to her mega hit album Thank U, Next, released in February.Īriana was also the most-streamed female artist of the decade on Spotify. “Her dark staccato hit Bad Guy also ranks as the second-most-streamed song of the year.” It clinched the top streamed release of 2019.Įilish is “the first female artist to have her album top the Wrapped most streamed album category,” noted Spotify. Her album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was streamed more than six billion times. Then there’s teenager Billie Eilish, the second most streamed artist of 2019 on the platform. Billie Eilish won big at November’s AMAs.

That gives Post a podium finish in Spotify’s three main categories of artists, songs and albums. It’s Post Malone’s first time at the apex, and the honour came just three months after his album Hollywood’s Bleeding (the second most streamed album this year) dropped.īut wait, there’s more: His collaboration with Swae Lee on Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse’s song Sunflower was the third most streamed song of the year. The singer, who blends his laconic vocals with a mix of rap, pop and rock, clocked up 6.5 million global streams, making him the No.1 artist for 2019 on the platform. Photo: InstagramĪccording to Spotify’s Wrapped list – a data-driven deep dive into the artists and music that defined the year and decade – Post Malone is the where you want to be.

And don’t miss Billy Ray Cyrus’ excellent cameo. Oh, and on home turf the most repeated song to come out of the southern hemisphere, was ARIA award winner Tones And I with Dance Monkey.
