The most-streamed podcast genre of 2019 was comedy, showing that laughter is truly universal. People are clearly loving podcasts, tuning in the most to Spotify Original The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory and Mal, followed by My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark and Germany’s Gemischtes Hack. We’ve also seen a 39% increase in podcast hours consumed by listeners quarter over quarter. There are now more than 500,000 podcast titles available, and our podcast audience has grown by more than 50% since the start of the year. This year was a big one for podcast growth on Spotify. They took their horse all the way to the front with “ Old Town Road – Remix. After “Señorita,” “ bad guy ,” “ Sunflower ,” and “ 7 rings ,” the year’s fifth-most-streamed track came from Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus. The year’s top song comes from the duo that took the Northern Hemisphere’s summer by storm: “ Señorita ” by Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello saw more than 1 billion streams. (And the top male artist? Last year’s Scorpion king, Drake. Only tears of joy left to cry for this one. When it comes to the most-streamed female artist of the decade, Ariana once again takes the cake.

Listeners also showed Taylor Swift lots of love, making her the year’s third top-streamed female artist after her album Lover generated popular tracks like “ME!” and “You Need to Calm Down.” Her song “7 rings” was also in the top five most streamed this year, giving Ariana a strong two years in the top 10 of Spotify’s Wrapped list. Her dark staccato hit “bad guy” also ranks as the second-most-streamed song of the year.įinally, Ariana Grande released her immensely popular album thank u, next in February, propelling her to number three on Spotify’s list of most-streamed-artists globally. The album has proven to be the top-streamed release of 2019, marking a milestone-Billie is the first female artist to have her album top the Wrapped most-streamed album category. In this year alone, she dropped her album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? and surpassed 6 billion streams. The second-most-streamed artist of the year is 17-year-old singer-songwriter and first time Grammy nominee Billie Eilish, who by now, definitely deserves that crown. His collaboration with Swae Lee on “Sunflower” from Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse rounded out the top three most-streamed songs of the year, which gives the artist a spot in each of our three major music categories (top artists, top songs, and top albums). It’s the rapper-singer-songwriter’s first time topping Spotify’s Wrapped list, and he did it just 12 weeks after dropping his album Hollywood’s Bleeding (which also happens to be the second most-streamed album globally this year). This year, Post Malone claimed the spot of most-streamed artist with over 6.5 billion streams from fans around the globe. So, what did the world listen to in 2019? And ahead of the brand-new decade, we also looked back on the last 10 years in music to reveal who dominated global listening. We dove into the newcomers, showstoppers, and top performers who united the globe with music and podcasts this year. We’re doing the same-but for the entire world.

(You’ll be able to check them out on your personal Wrapped cards later this week). You may be reflecting back on the past 12 months, thinking about your own music discoveries and the songs you repeated over, and over, and over. As 2019 draws to a close, so too does a stellar year of streaming on Spotify.

Stats for spotify top albums