Top 20 Streaming Songs Analysis

Purpose

Goal: This page helps music fans, artists, and industry people understand which songs are most popular on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. We look at data to see patterns in what makes songs successful.

Complete Song Data

Rank Song Title Artist Streams (Billions) Release Year Genre
1 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 3.5 2019 Pop
2 Shape of You Ed Sheeran 3.4 2017 Pop
3 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 2.9 2018 Pop
4 Sunflower Post Malone 2.8 2018 Hip-Hop
5 As It Was Harry Styles 2.6 2022 Pop
6 Stay The Kid LAROI 2.5 2021 Pop
7 Lucid Dreams Juice WRLD 2.5 2018 Hip-Hop
8 Perfect Ed Sheeran 2.4 2017 Pop
9 Bad Habits Ed Sheeran 2.4 2021 Pop
10 Rockstar Post Malone 2.3 2017 Hip-Hop
11 Closer The Chainsmokers 2.2 2016 Electronic
12 One Dance Drake 2.2 2016 Hip-Hop
13 Heat Waves Glass Animals 2.1 2020 Indie
14 Levitating Dua Lipa 2.1 2020 Pop
15 Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles 2.0 2019 Pop
16 Good 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 2.0 2021 Pop
17 Industry Baby Lil Nas X 1.9 2021 Hip-Hop
18 Anti-Hero Taylor Swift 1.9 2022 Pop
19 Flowers Miley Cyrus 1.8 2023 Pop
20 Unholy Sam Smith 1.8 2022 Pop
Description: this table shows the top 20 most streamed songs on music platforms

Analysis: Most Popular Genres

Genre Count from Our Data

GenreNumber of Songs
Pop12
Hip-Hop4
Electronic1
Indie1

What This Means

Pop music dominates streaming platforms with 12 out of 20 top songs being pop genre. This shows that pop music appeals to the widest audience.

Hip-hop comes in second with 4 songs, showing it's also very popular for streaming.

Eletronic and Indie only have 1 song each, suggesting that those genres are not the most popular in terms of streams.

Glossary of Terms

Streams
The number of times a song has been played on streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music
Billions
A number with 9 zeros (1,000,000,000). When we say a song has 2 billion streams, it means it was played 2,000,000,000 times
Genre
The category or style of music, like pop, rock, hip-hop, or country
Streaming Platform
A service where people listen to music online, like Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music
Release Year
The year when the song was first made available to the public