Interestingly, the five most-streamed artists of 2015 are all male with Sheeran, Drake, The Weeknd, Kanye West and Maroon 5 taking the top spots.
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Spotify announced its end-of-the-year list Tuesday and said Drake earned 1.8 billion streams in 2015. Drake’s “If You’re Reading This” also topped the US albums list, while Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” was the most streamed song in America. The service, which boasts more than 70m users, lists which acts have received the most plays in a single day, the most popular albums and its most-streamed singer of all time.
Drake has danced his way into Spotify’s top slot. He stole the top spot from Eminem.
In the 2015 results Spotify reported that 75 million listeners streamed over 20 billion hours of music, with 1.7 billion of those streams coming from their new Discover Weekly playlists, launched earlier this year.
Managing to rack up over a billion streams on the strength of a handful of new singles (including the omnipresent “Better Have My Money”) and some album cuts from 2012 is no small feat.
And the most streamed album?
Rihanna was followed by Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé, all of whom also did not release albums this year.
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The Brit Award-winning singer’s music, which includes former number ones Thinking Out Loud and Sing, has notched up more than three billion plays, and over 59 million listeners, since the service started in 2008.
