As for the U.S. in particular, the most-streamed artist this year was Drake, thanks in part to his 21 Savage collaborative albumHer Loss. Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny,Kanye Westand The Weeknd dominated the rest of U.S. listeners' time. Meanwhile, Americans' most-streamed song was from the...
The song hadn’t even reached the charts yet — though it would become the first hip-hop song to breach the Billboard Top 40 — beforeNile Rodgersof Chic heard an early version at a club in Manhattan. Ironically, several members of the Sugarhill Gang as well as Fab Five Freddy had joi...
Swift is joined in the Top 10 artists listened to by UK Spotify users (see below) by five British acts:Ed Sheeran(No.3), Harry Styles (No.4), Dave (No.7),Arctic Monkeys(No.9) and D-Block Europe (No.10). As well as his global victory, Harry Styles takes ...
With the Your Artist Messages, eligible fans will get a personalized video feed with thank-you messages from some of their top artists in 2022, with each video followed up by their most-listened song from that artist this year. Audio Day: an interactive story that gives you a look at how...
This year’s Wrapped will include standard features that access data and show users their individualized top artists, genres, songs, podcasts and minutes listened. Spotify will also integrate new elements including: New data stories bringing you to the heart of their listening: In addition to you...
Why It’s Great:You'll hear a lot of people who've only listened to Swift's radio hits complain about how often she bemoans her exes without ever taking accountability for her own flaws in her relationships. Yet if they actually listened to more than her Top 20, they might realize that...
On the drive home, I listened to “Rapp Snitch Knishes” a few times over, cackling uncontrollably. As a kid raised on comic books, I adored the Fantastic Four cartoon samples. It’s an album that sent me down a path of discovery, one that would lead to Madlib, J Dilla, Ghostface, ...
But sometimes, it’s in your skin what you listen to or your sense of melody because you’ve listened to a certain thing for so long. I'm curious to go back to the Lil B thing. What sort of parallels do you see between his approach and what you're doing? Because a lot of ...
9 to Oct. 21, 2006 Justin Timberlake told Entertainment Weekly he listened to David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” 15 times the day before he penned “SexyBack,” his first #1 Billboard Hot 100 single. ""We really did want to make a statement at that time and do something just a little ...
Scroll Down From Kanye West to Woody Guthrie, the monumental musical statements that changed the world2008 Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak Share this Album Kanye West's Auto-Tune-heavy, emotionally naked fourth album came after a brutal year during which his mother died and his engagement broke up...