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This article was written by Kayla Zhu and originally published by Visual Capitalist.
Spotify is one of the most popular paid music streaming services, totaling 626 million users across 180 markets, as of July 2024.
With so many users worldwide, which songs were the most listened to each year over this past decade?
This chart shows the top-streamed song of the year on Spotify from 2014 to 2023, with figures from Spotify, Complex, and Wikipedia.
The Most Streamed Song on Spotify Each Year
Below we show the most streamed song on Spotify from 2014 to 2023, with Miley Cyrus holding the latest top spot in 2023 with “Flowers”, which reached 1.6 billion streams.
| Year | Song | Streams |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Flowers – Miley Cyrus | 1.6 billion |
| 2022 | As it Was – Harry Styles | 1.5 billion |
| 2021 | drivers license – Olivia Rodrigo | 1.1 billion |
| 2020 | Blinding Lights – The Weeknd | 1.6 billion |
| 2019 | Señorita – Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello | 1 billion |
| 2018 | God’s Plan – Drake | 1 billion |
| 2017 | Shape of You – Ed Sheeran | 1.4 billion |
| 2016 | One Dance – Drake | 970 million |
| 2015 | Lean On (feat. MØ & DJ Snake) – Major Lazer | 540 million |
| 2014 | Happy – Pharrell Williams | 260 million |
Canadian rapper Drake is the only artist with two top-streamed songs of the year on Spotify: “One Dance” in 2016 and “God’s Plan” in 2018. Drake’s album “Scorpion” was also the most-streamed album of 2018.
The top-streamed song in 2017, Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”, is currently the most-streamed song on Spotify of all-time seven years after its release. It is also the best-selling digital single of all time, having sold 41.5 million digital units.
Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo released her debut single “drivers license” when she was 17 years old, making her the youngest artist to achieve the top-streamed song of the year with the only debut single to ever top the streaming charts.
In general, most of Spotify’s top singles in the past decade are pop songs, excluding Drake’s “God’s Plan” (hip hop) and Major Lazer and DJ Snake’s “Lean On” (Electronic/dance).
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