Spotify releases list of 2014's most streamed artists worldwide

[Justin Kahn]

Music streaming service Spotify announced its most popular artists of 2014 today. Topping the list is UK artist Ed Sheernan as the service’s most streamed artist worldwide. Other notable mentions are Eminem, Katy Perry, Pharrell, Coldplay and Iggy Azalea.

Sheernan pulled in more than 860 million plays according to Spotify. His latest album, “x,” is the most popular record on the service having been streamed more than 430 million times worldwide in 2014. Sheernan is followed by Eminem, Coldplay, Calvin Harris and Katy Perry on the most popular artists worldwide list. Coldplay and Katy Perry both topped the most popular group and female categories.

As far as the single most popular song, that nod goes to Pharrell’s “Happy” with more than 260 million plays. While Eminem is the most streamed artist overall in the United States, Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” is the most popular single stateside so far this year. Eminem is followed by acts like Drake and Lana del Rey as the most popular overall in the US.

This data comes from more than 50 million Spotify users and more than 7 billion hours of songs from across the year. For more details and most popular lists, head over to Spotify’s “Year in Music” page.

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[captainawesome]

Sheernan? Really?

 

[captainawesome]

Spotify would be getting a lot more subscribers if it would just release their service in more countries.

 

[MilwaukeeMike]

Sheernan? Really?

Notice the absence of Taylor Swift and Justin Beiber? Taylor pulled her stuff off and it made news, I don't keep up with Justin's stuff, but maybe his stuff isn't on there either. I wonder how the Spotify list compares to the list of money made on tour by artist. I'd guess there are few notable differences, and we shouldn't conclude that high spotify popularity belongs to the most popular musicians.

 

[captainawesome]

It's Sheeran - not sheerNan

 

[captaincranky]

Thank you Justin Kahn! Before I was pretty sure I didn't need a streaming service, and now I'm 100% positive.

Notice the absence of Taylor Swift ....[ ]....? Taylor pulled her stuff off and it made news...[ ]....

I was in a music store a while back, and spied a songbook entitled, "Taylor Swift, Easy Guitar". I wondered to myself what other kind of guitar Swift could possibly play.