Spotify’s Most-Streamed Artist of 2015 Is a Canadian. In Fact, Canadians Dominated Spotify This Year.
Now that we’re into the final month of the year, the year-end lists will come fast and furious. Spotify loves lists and never passes up a chance to issue one. The company says they had 75 million listeners streaming 20 billion hours of music (Holy bandwidth, Batman!). Parsing the data, they found the following:
- The most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2015: Drake with 1.8 billion streams and 46 million listeners.
- The most-streamed album: Beauty Beyond the Madness by The Weeknd with 60 million listeners. (Drake’s If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late was second.)
- The most streams in a single day: Purpose by Justin Bieber with 36 million on November 13.
- The most-streamed female artist: Rihanna with 1 billion streams and 57 million listeners.
- The most-streamed song: “Lean On” (ft. MØ and DJ Snake) with 540,000,000 listens.
- The most-streamed song of all time: “Lean On” (ft. MØ and DJ Snake) with 540,000,000 listens. (Yep. Same numbers.)
Here’s a cool list. Note the CanCon
Top Five Artists in U.S.
1. Drake
2. The Weeknd
3. Kanye West
4. Ed Sheeran
5. Eminem
Top Five Males in U.S.
1. Drake
2. The Weeknd
3. Kanye West
4. Ed Sheeran
5. Eminem
And here’s another one where CanCon is at the top.
Top Five Viral Tracks in the U.S.
1. Here – Alessia Cara
2. Hotline Bling – Drake
3. Sugar (feat. Francesco Yates) – Robin Schulz
4. Ex’s & Oh’s – Elle King
5. Sunday Candy – Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment (tied for 4th place)
There are lots more Canadian-heavy US-based lists at Billboard. Meanwhile, Canadians did well in the UK, too. (Via Mashable)
Top Five Artists (also Top Five Male Artists)
1. Ed Sheeran
2. The Weeknd
3. Drake
4. Sam Smith
5. Kanye West
Top Five Albums
1. Beauty Behind The Madness – The Weeknd
2. Chaos And The Calm – James Bay
3. Communion – Years & Years
4. Peace Is The Mission – Major Lazer
5. Me 4 U – OMI
