3 on the global artist ranking) didn’t put out a proper album in 2021, they did release a plethora of remixes and alternate versions of pre-existing tracks as well as the hit Coldplay collab “My Universe,” which itself spawned a total of six remixes and alternate versions.Īs Swift proved with her expansive album releases this year, album length also clearly matters in terms of Spotify’s artist and album tallies (the latter of which counts the total streams of all songs on a given album). 12, just two weeks before Spotify stopped tallying streams for the overall Wrapped lists.) While BTS (No. (Caveat: The latter album was released Nov. 11) and this year put out two hugely popular re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (Apr. artist rankings, released Evermore at the tail end of 2020 (Dec. The Latin superstar has released seven singles and remixes so far this year, including the Hot 100 top 10 single “Yonaguni” and Hot 100 top 40 single “Volvi” with Aventura.

5 on the Stateside chart – seems to have attained those rankings based at least in part on his prolific output.

1 global artist of the year, Bad Bunny – who also finished at No. The overall list is ranked based on the number of unique listeners, while the individual list is ranked based on total minutes listened.)Īs for Spotify’s top 5 artist lists, the No. (Note: Stream count doesn’t apply to the top 5 podcast lists. Ditto Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” which was released on March 26 and ended the year as the second most-streamed track on Spotify’s global tally. Whatever the case, that timeframe obviously privileges songs released early in the year, like Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” – the most-streamed song on Spotify both globally and domestically in 2021 – which was released way back on Jan. 27, though Spotify wouldn’t confirm the specific date they stopped tallying streams for the individual lists, saying only that it was “a few weeks prior” to Wrapped’s Dec. For the overall lists, streams are counted between January 1 and Nov. The three most anticipated Wrapped statistics – top 5 artists, top 5 songs and top 5 albums– are based on total number of streams (a stream being counted when a user listens to a track for at least 30 seconds, including offline listens).

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