Taylor Swift Is Most-Streamed Artist of the Year

The Spotify Wrapped 2024 year-end information dive is out — and Taylor Swift is once more on the prime.

Swift ranked because the No. 1 most-streamed artist globally in 2024 on Spotify, nabbing the crown for the second 12 months in a row. That’s largely on the power of her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” which was the most-streamed album of the 12 months on Spotify. All advised, Swift’s music generated greater than 26.6 billion streams on the platform this 12 months.

After Swift, Spotify’s most-streamed artists of the 12 months worldwide have been The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish. (See full prime 10 lists of artists, albums, songs and extra under.)

Swift’s “Tortured Poets” broke a number of Spotify information, together with turning into the primary album to prime 300 million streams in at some point and greater than 1 billion within the first week of launch. Its large recognition led a banner 12 months for ladies artists — who landed the highest eight of the ten most-streamed albums worldwide on Spotify. Those have been “Hit Me Hard and Soft” by Billie Eilish (No. 2), Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” (No. 3), Karol G’s “Mañana Será Bonito” (No. 4), Ariana Grande’s “Eternal Sunshine” (No. 5), Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” (No. 6), SZA’s “SOS” (No. 7) and Swift’s “Lover” (No. 8).

To rejoice Swift’s reprise because the most-streamed artist, Spotify is including some sprinkles on prime for her followers. For the primary time, Spotify is including a Wrapped badge to Taylor Swift’s Spotify profile, marking the inaugural 12 months of what the corporate says might be an annual distinction. In addition, Spotify is launching an Easter egg expertise for Swifties: When listening to Taylor songs on Spotify, followers will see customized mini-animations tailor-made to the eras of her discography on the app’s play button (for instance, there might be sparkles for “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and seagulls for “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” In a partnership with Snapchat, Swift followers worldwide will discover particular 2024 Wrapped bracelets — that includes a Global Top Artist Badge allure — via an AR lens within the Snapchat app. Also, Spotify will launch out-of-home installations that includes Swift in cities together with New York, Toronto, Jakarta, São Paolo, Manila, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Nashville and Miami.

Meanwhile, Spotify’s most-streamed songs worldwide in 2024 have been: Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” with greater than 1.6 billion streams globally, adopted by Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” “Gata Only” by FloyyMenor and Cris MJ, and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control.”

Spotify additionally unveiled the highest podcasts of the 12 months, led by “The Joe Rogan Experience” and Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy.” (See the rating of the highest 50 U.S. podcasts on Spotify at this hyperlink.) In addition, Spotify Wrapped for the primary time options the highest audiobooks of the 12 months, with Sarah J. Maas coming in because the No. 1 most-streamed writer and her hit fantasy-romance “A Court of Thorns and Roses” sequence claiming the highest audiobook spot.

Users will be capable of entry their personalised 2024 Wrapped Experience within the Spotify cell app beginning Wednesday. Returning this 12 months are thank-you clips from 1000’s of artists to their prime followers, together with Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Peso Pluma, Rosé and Usher.

New this 12 months in Wrapped: Your Music Evolution, an information story that guarantees to disclose “the musical phases that uniquely outlined your 12 months”; every person will see as much as three musical phases, which might be displayed with descriptors, genres and artists. In addition, followers will now get to see the artist they loved most this 12 months with “Longest Listening Streak,” alongside “Top Listeners” that reveals what percentile of listeners you’re in on your favourite artist.

Also new is an AI-generated podcast about your 2024 Spotify Wrapped music listening, constructed utilizing Google’s NotebookLM AI instrument and narrated by two hosts (out there in English in choose markets). In addition, Spotify’s AI DJ will present commentary about your Wrapped (out there in English and Spanish) and the AI Playlist characteristic will let Premium customers create personalised playlists utilizing their Wrapped information.

2024 Spotify Wrapped: Global Top Lists

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2024 Spotify Wrapped: U.S. Top Lists

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U.S. Top Most Anticipated Podcast Launches

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