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Spotify Wrapped 2021: The 5 top artists, songs and albums of the year
FROM Bad Bunny to Taylor Swift, Spotify has revealed what users have be listening to the most over the last year.
The global music streaming service has now broken down the stats to show who’s top in the world of music when it come to what you listen to.
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What are the Spotify Wrapped 2021 results?
On December 1, 2021, Spotify Wrapped 2021 revealed the biggest songs, artists and albums that had dominated the streaming platform over the last 12 months.
Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny emerged as the most-streamed global artist of 2021, achieving more than 9.1 billion streams.
Taylor Swift’s two re-recorded albums, Fearless and Red, helped her become the second most-streamed artist of the year.
Meanwhile the most-streamed songs were dominated by new talent.
This included Olivia Rodrigo with her debut single Drivers License – which was played more than 1.1 billion times in 2021 following its release in January.
A statement from Spotify said: “If 2020 was the year that flipped the world on its head, 2021 was the year that we got used to seeing things upside down.
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“With ‘normal’ thrown out the window, we embraced the unknown and championed all of the things that make each of us unique.
“Spotify’s 2021 Wrapped is a celebration of this – the millions of weird and wonderful ways to listen and live in a world that continues to keep us on our toes.”
Top 5 streamed artists
Bad BunnyTaylor SwiftBTSDrakeJustin Bieber
Top 5 streamed songs
Drivers License – Olivia RodrigoMONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) – by Lil Nas XStay – The Kid LAROI with Justin Biebergood 4 u – Olivia RodrigoLevitating – Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby
Top 5 streamed albums
SOUR – Olivia RodrigoFuture Nostalgia – Dua LipaJustice – Justin Bieber= – Ed SheeranPlanet Her – Doja Cat
Is Spotify Wrapped only for Premium users?
Spotify Wrapped is available for both Premium and non-paying users.
However, subscribers get to learn a bit more about their listening habits.
For example, Premium users can get a ‘Pioneer’ badge if they listened to a song before it reached 50,000 streams.
