Since 2014, Spotify listeners have anticipated an end-of-the-year celebration of music streaming. This popular practice, which making a list of the top songs you listened to, as well as giving you an idea of your most listened to artist, has continued to be an important part of the year for individual users of Spotify across the world. It is even better, as the streaming platform has included something different by introducing some new features to increase the excitement.
This year, Spotify Unwrapped 2023, has been an actual drill of emotions for listeners, as music artists all over the world have maintained a consistent release of different varieties of hit songs, making it rather impossible to have just one artist or song claim dominance on our song list. Nonetheless, some artists just prove them to be beyond the regular, automatically making their classics worthy of top spots, in all different categories, from the most-played artist to owning the most streamed album, as well as the most streamed song and more.
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The list topper for Spotify Unwrapped for 2023 has had quite the big year. From becoming a billionaire entertainer to claiming top Billboard charts and reigning for weeks, Spotify’s global top artist and the most-streamed female artist of the year is none other than Taylor Swift. With 26.1billion streams globally, the Queen of Eras takes the Crown from Bad Bunny, who has excellently dominated that position in the past three years. Swift’s dominance this year comes from nothing but her prowess and consistency. Looking back at her groundbreaking sales and incredible performances, it is clear that this performer knows her onions and this has been a great comeback from the Swifties Queen. With various hit songs, ranging from her originals re-released by with more artistic works incorporated to her Eras tour, Taylor’s productions this year are quite applaudable.
Coming in as the second most streamed artist of the year is the three-time King of the year’s top artist title, Bad Bunny. while the third position to The Weeknd. Then, the most-streamed global song of the Year goes to none other song than the year’s opening hit, “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus with 1.6 billion global streams. When “Flowers” dropped earlier in January, it was a bomb, and it resonated with millions of listeners across the globe, making it top music charts in over a dozen countries while maintaining its position on the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 non-consecutive weeks, making a come back for its position each time it gets over-throned, Then, the second most-streamed song of the year, following closely behind Miley’s “Flower” is “Kill Bill” by SZA and assuming the third place is “As It Was.” by Harry Styles, all brilliant masterpieces by talented artists.
Again, we have in the third category + Spotify’s most-streamed album of the year, a position which remained dominated by Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, for the second year in a row. The Grammy record-breaker might have lost one crown, but he clearly doesn’t give up on winning. Right behind him is Taylor Swift’s Midnight, coming in second place while SZA’s SOS took the third position and fourth place goes to The Weeknd’s Starboy.
Below are the full list of the Top artists, song, and album of the year in order of position.
Most Streamed Global artists of the year
- Taylor Swift
- Bad Bunny
- The Weeknd
- Drake
- Peso Pluma
- Feid
- Travis Scott
- SZA
- Karol G
- Lana Del Rey
Most Streamed Songs Globally:
- “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus
- “Kill Bill” by SZA
- “As It Was” by Harry Styles
- “Seven” by Jung Kook feat. Latto
- “Ella Baila Sola” by Eslabon Armado, Peso Pluma
- “Cruel Summer” by Taylor Swift
- “Creepin” by Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage
- “Calm Down” by Rema, Selena Gomez
- “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” by Bizarrap, Shakira
- “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift
Most Streamed Albums of the year globally:
- Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
- Midnights by Taylor Swift
- SOS by SZA
- Starboy by The Weeknd
- MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO by KAROL G
- One Thing At a Time by Morgan Wallen
- Lover by Taylor Swift
- HEROES & VILLAINS by Metro Boomin
- GÉNESIS by Peso Pluma
- Harry’s House by Harry Stylespp