

Zayn, the former One Direction member who released a solo album this year, is Spotify's top breakout artist. "Stressed Out" by twenty one pilots took the top spot, followed by Justin Bieber's "Sorry."ĭrake is the most streamed act of all-time on Spotify with 8.7 billion streams. "One Dance," though, placed third on Google Play's top songs of the year, announced Thursday. After a big year in music, streaming platform Spotify has tallied the songs and artists the world has listened to the most in 2016. Mike Posner's "I Took a Pill in Ibiza - Seeb Remix" came in second after Drake's "One Dance" for top songs, followed by The Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down," Rihanna and Drake's "Work" and Sia's "Cheap Thrills." The top-heavy artist list includes Drake, but also artists like Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Rihanna, Fetty Wap, and Desiigner, all of whom get serious promotion on Spotify’s interface. The top albums following "Views" are Bieber's "Purpose," Rihanna's "Anti," twenty one pilots' "Blurryface" and The Weeknd's "Beauty Behind the Madness." Justin Bieber, Rihanna, twenty one pilots and Kanye West round out the top five artists of the year. The rapper has the most streamed album and song - "Views" (2.45 billion) and "One Dance" (970 million) - on Spotify this year, it was announced late Wednesday. Read next: Drake’s Views: Exploring the songs behind its samplesĭrake is Spotify's most streamed artist of 2016 with 4.NEW YORK - Drake owned the year on Spotify: He's the most streamed act on the platform with 4.7 billion streams. Rihanna is Spotify’s most-streamed female artist of 2016, while former One Direction star Zayn Malik was the biggest new act of the year. The song also spent 15 weeks at the top of the UK singles chart – the longest run to date – overtaking previous record holder and fellow Canadian Bryan Adams with his 1991 track ‘Everything I Do (I Do It For You).’ As 2016 comes to a close, Spotify revealed the most-streamed artists and songs in Mexico throughout the year.

This year, the Views artist maintained a Herculean grip on the site with the smash hit – that alone was streamed 960 million times. The Canadian artist had already been crowned Spotify’s most streamed artist everback in May, overtaking Justin Bieber and in October, ‘One Dance’ was declared the most streamed song in the history of the platform. See the full lists of Spotify’s most streamed artists, albums and songs below: Most streamed artists of 2016: Drake. ‘One Dance’ is the streaming platform’s biggest song of the year (and all-time).įor the second year in a row, Drake is Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2016, notching up 4.7 billion streams, which he achieved despite his album Views being withheld from the streaming platform for two weeks as part of an exclusive deal with Apple Music.
