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Spotify’s Wrapped charts confirm Universal and Joe Rogan were this year’s big streaming winners
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 1 December 2020
Spotify has begun its annual year-end stats-happy Wrapped campaign, by announcing the most played artists, tracks and podcasts of 2020. So that gives us some idea of who the big earners from the company were this year (spoiler: Joe Rogan and Universal Music).
The most streamed artist globally was Bad Bunny, with four more Universal-signed guys making up the rest of the top five: Drake, J Balvin, Juice Wrld and The Weeknd. In the UK, the top five was slightly different, topped by Drake and with Ed Sheeran slipping in to break up the Universal party.
It’s all very male-heavy again, with few women to be found in any of the charts Spotify has thrown up this morning. Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia’ was the fifth most streamed album globally and in the UK. Her track ‘Don’t Start Now’ was the world’s fifth most popular track and she was the third most streamed British artist in the UK. Other than that, Tones & I’s ‘Dance Monkey’ was the UK’s fifth most played track and the second most popular worldwide.
Continuing the uber-blokeyness, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ was the number one podcast in the UK and globally. So that possibly justifies the $100 million Spotify spent securing the exclusive rights to air the show. Or it might just annoy everyone who is already annoyed about that deal even more. Maybe both!
Anyway, here are some key charts:
Most Streamed Artists Globally
Bad Bunny
Drake
J Balvin
Juice Wrld
The Weeknd
Most Streamed Artists in the UK
Drake
Juice Wrld
Eminem
Ed Sheeran
The Weeknd
Most Streamed Artists in the UK, from the UK
Ed Sheeran
Stormzy
Dua Lipa
Lewis Capaldi
Harry Styles
Most Streamed Tracks Globally
The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
Tones & I – Dance Monkey
Roddy Ricch – The Box
Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix)
Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
Most Streamed Tracks in UK
The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix)
DaBaby – Rockstar (feat Roddy Ricch)
Roddy Ricch – The Box
Tones & I – Dance Monkey
Most Streamed Albums Globally
Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG
The Weeknd- After Hours
Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding
Harry Styles – Fine Line
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Most Streamed Albums in UK
Lewis Capaldi – Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
Harry Styles – Fine Line
Pop Smoke – Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
The Weeknd – After Hours
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Most Popular Podcasts Globally
The Joe Rogan Experience
TED Talks Daily
The Daily
The Michelle Obama Podcast
Call Her Daddy
Most Popular Podcasts in the UK
The Joe Rogan Experience
Shagged Married Annoyed
Times News Briefing
That Peter Crouch Podcast
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
