This is, as Spotify put it on the company blog, “how 191 million people around the world streamed music and content in 2018.” Top female artists were also included in the platform’s year-end data haul, in a separate list Dua Lipa was the only female artist with an album in the global top five, but she didn’t have a top song either. 4 on the US’s top albums list, though it didn’t appear in the global top five and she didn’t have a top song. Top female artists were also included in the platform’s year-end data haul, in a separate list.Įlsewhere in the rankings, women hardly existed: Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy was No. (His breakout hit was “All Girls Are the Same.”) “Nice for What” instead of “In My Feelings.” An honorable mention for Juice WRLD, part of the primarily American burgeoning genre of rap music infused with the regurgitated influences of early-aughts emo, in particular its throughline of misogyny. Narrowed down to the US, things were different but the same: Drake, Post Malone, XXXTenatacion, Travis Scott, and Khalid at the top. This too is no surprise because this song is one of my all time favourites and I always listen to it when I’m doing homework or just about to go to sleep because it’s a really good song to wind down to.The most-streamed artists on Spotify this year were Drake, Post Malone, XXXTentacion, J Balvin, and Ed Sheeran, and the top songs were Drake’s “God’s Plan,” XXXTentacion’s “SAD!,” Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” and Post Malone’s “Psycho,” followed by Drake’s “In My Feelings.” And number 1 is… “Electric” by Alina Baraz feat. While it didn’t surprise me that these were in my top songs, I would’ve thought Rex would by in my top artists so that was a bit of a surprise.

Number 3 was “Sunflower” by Rex Orange County and number 2 was “Loving is Easy” also by Rex. I would also like to point out I knew and liked the song before it became a meme, so yeah, there you go. Number 4 was “Mine” by Bazzi which, again, makes sense because that was my anthem for the first half of the year.

We’ll start at number 5 this time because, I don’t know, I’ll try and build suspense ) So 5 was “Jocelyn Flores” by XXXTENTACION, which seems right, I’m actually writing about his “17” album now too so look out for that in the future. Top 5 Songs of 2018 weren’t surprising at all to be honest because I listen to each of these at least twice a day.

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