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Spotify Announces Top 10 Artists, Songs, Albums Of The Year With 2023 Wrapped
(Gray News) - Taylor Swift is "the man."
Spotify released its 2023 Wrapped on Wednesday, listing the top 10 global artists, songs, and albums of the year.
Swift is Spotify's No. 1 global artist of 2023, with more than 26 billion streams this year.
She also is the top artist in the United States, as well as having several albums and songs in the top 10.
Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" is the top global song of the year with more than 1.6 billion streams.
Bad Bunny's "Un Verano Sin Ti" is the top global album of the year.
"The Joe Rogan Experience" took the top spot for global podcast of the year.
Spotify users can now access their own 2023 Wrapped, where they can see their personal yearly metrics of their top artists, albums, songs, and podcasts.
Here are the complete lists from Spotify's 2023 Wrapped:
Most-Streamed Artists Globally
1. Taylor Swift
2. Bad Bunny
3. The Weeknd
4. Drake
5. Peso Pluma
6. Feid
7. Travis Scott
8. SZA
9. Karol G
10. Lana Del Rey
Most-Streamed Artists in the U.S.
1. Taylor Swift
2. Drake
3. Morgan Wallen
4. The Weeknd
5. Bad Bunny
6. 21 Savage
7. SZA
8. Zach Bryan
9. Kanye West
10. Peso Pluma
Most-Streamed Songs Globally
1. "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus
2. "Kill Bill" by SZA
3. "As It Was" by Harry Styles
4. "Seven (feat. Latto)" by Jung Kook
5. "Ella Baila Sola" by Eslabon Armado, Peso Pluma
6. "Cruel Summer" by Taylor Swift
7. "Creepin' (with The Weeknd & 21 Savage)" by Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage
8. "Calm Down (with Selena Gomez)" by Rema, Selena Gomez
9. "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53″ by Bizarrap, Shakira
10. "Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift
Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" is the top global song of the year with more than 1.6 billion streams.(Spotify via CNN Newsource)Most-Streamed Songs in the U.S.
1. "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen
2. "Kill Bill" by SZA
3. "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus
4. "Ella Baila Sola" by Eslabon Armado, Peso Pluma
5. "Boy's a liar Pt. 2″ by PinkPantheress, Ice Spice
6. "Cruel Summer" by Taylor Swift
7. "Something in the Orange" by Zach Bryan
8. "You Proof" by Morgan Wallen
9. "Creepin' (with The Weeknd & 21 Savage)" by Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage
10. "Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift
Most-Streamed Albums Globally
1. "Un Verano Sin Ti" by Bad Bunny
2. "Midnights" by Taylor Swift
3. "SOS" by SZA
4. "Starboy" by The Weeknd
5. "MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO" by KAROL G
6. "One Thing At A Time" by Morgan Wallen
7. "Lover" by Taylor Swift
8. "HEROES & VILLAINS" by Metro Boomin
9. "GÉNESIS" by Peso Pluma
10. "Harry's House" by Harry Styles
Bad Bunny's "Un Verano Sin Ti" is the top global album of the year.(Spotify via CNN Newsource)Most-Streamed Albums in the U.S.
1. "One Thing At A Time" by Morgan Wallen
2. "SOS" by SZA
3. "Midnights" by Taylor Swift
4. "HEROES & VILLAINS" by Metro Boomin
5. "Dangerous: The Double Album" by Morgan Wallen
6. "Lover" by Taylor Swift
7. "Un Verano Sin Ti" by Bad Bunny
8. "folklore" by Taylor Swift
9. "GÉNESIS" by Peso Pluma
10. "Starboy" by The Weeknd
Top Podcasts Globally
1. "The Joe Rogan Experience"
2. "Call Her Daddy"
3. "Huberman Lab"
4. "anything goes with emma chamberlain"
5. "On Purpose with Jay Shetty"
6. "Crime Junkie"
7. "This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von"
8. "Serial Killers"
9. "The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett"
10. "TED Talks Daily"
Top Podcasts in the U.S.
1. "The Joe Rogan Experience"
2. "Call Her Daddy"
3. "Crime Junkie"
4. "This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von"
5. "The Daily"
6. "Huberman Lab"
7. "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard"
8. "SmartLess"
9. "Up First"
10. "anything goes with emma chamberlain"
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Spotify Wrapped, Apple Replay Now Available: How To See Your Top Songs, Artists
(WHTM) — Music streaming services Spotify and Apple Music are once again participating in a year-end tradition: showing users which trendy or embarrassing songs and artists they couldn't stop listening to in 2023.
Spotify Wrapped and Apple Replay both became available to users this week. The end-of-year lists show various listening stats, such as a user's top artists, songs, and podcasts as well as how many minutes of music they listen to and more.
On both apps, the data is shown in a fun highlight reel that users can share on social media.
The popular Spotify Wrapped feature for 2023 was released on Wednesday, Nov. 29. (Photo: Spotify) How do you find your Spotify Wrapped and Apple Replay? For Spotify, you'll first want to make sure your app is up to date. When you open up the app, you should see a big animated banner saying "Your 2023 Wrapped is here."
If that's not working, you can also check your Spotify Wrapped on a web browser. Just go to Spotify.Com/Wrapped.
If you are a user of Apple Music, you can also see your 2023 highlights in a web browser by going to music.Apple.Com/replay. Once you sign in, you'll be able to see your top streams of the year in a slideshow.
Top trendsIf your top artist was Taylor Swift this year, you are far from alone. According both to Spotify and Apple Music, Taylor Swift took the top artist spots on both platforms.
According to Spotify Wrapped, Swift was 2023's most-streamed artist globally, raking in more than 26.1 billion streams since January 1. That means the pop powerhouse has dethroned Puerto Rican reggaetón star Bad Bunny, who held the coveted title for three years in a row beginning in 2020.
He's in the number two slot in 2023, followed by The Weeknd in third, Drake in fourth, and regional Mexican musician Peso Pluma in fifth.
Miley Cyrus' empowerment anthem "Flowers" is Spotify's most-streamed song of the year with 1.6 million streams globally.
"Kill Bill" by SZA is the second most-streamed song of the year, while Harry Styles' "As It Was," BTS member Jung Kook featuring Latto's "Seven," and Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma's "Ella Baila Sola" came in third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
In the U.S., Swift's dominance continued — she was the most streamed artist on the platform, followed by Drake and country star Morgan Wallen. Wallen's "Last Night" was the most streamed song, and his full-length "One Thing at a Time" was the most streamed-album.
On Tuesday, Apple Music announced Wallen's "Last Night" topped its global song chart in 2023. It has been a banner year for the song, which also stayed atop the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks, tying Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber's "Despacito" for the title of second-longest reign in the Hot 100's 65-year history.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Spotify Says Its Upcoming Royalty Model Changes Will Generate $1B For Artists Over Five Years
Spotify's upcoming royalty model changes will generate $1 billion in five years for new and popular artists, the streaming service announced on Tuesday. As previously reported, Spotify is changing its royalty system to direct more money to popular artists and record labels, while raising the minimum payment threshold for music streaming on the platform and tackling streaming fraud.
The company says the new policy will deter artificial streaming, better distribute small payments that aren't reaching artists, and crack down on those attempting to game the system with noise.
"While each of these issues only impacts a small percentage of total streams, addressing them now means that we can drive approximately an additional $1 billion in revenue toward emerging and professional artists over the next five years," Spotify wrote in a blog post.
In terms of the new minimum payment threshold, tracks need to reach at least 1,000 streams in the past 12 months in order to generate royalties starting next year. The company says it won't make additional money under this model, and that "there is no change to the size of the music royalty pool being paid out to rights holders from Spotify; we will simply use the tens of millions of dollars annually to increase the payments to all eligible tracks, rather than spreading it out into $0.03 payments."
Spotify says it has more than 100 million tracks and that tens of millions of them have been streamed between 1 and 1,000 times over the past year and generated $0.03 per month on average.
"Because labels and distributors require a minimum amount to withdraw (usually $2-$50 per withdrawal), and banks charge a fee for the transaction (usually $1-$20 per withdrawal), this money often doesn't reach the uploaders," Spotify notes. "And these small payments are often forgotten about. But in aggregate, these small disregarded payments have added up to $40 million per year, which could instead increase the payments to artists who are most dependent on streaming revenue."
The company notes that 99.5% of all streams are of tracks that have at least 1,000 annual streams, and each of those tracks will earn more under this policy.
Spotify believes that since uploaders will no longer be able to "generate pennies from an extremely high volume of tracks," the policy will eliminate one strategy used to attempt to game the system or hide artificial streaming.
To deter artificial streaming, Spotify will start charging labels and distributors per track when artificial streaming is detected on their content starting next year. Although Spotify is able to fight artificial streaming once it occurs on the platform, it believes this change will deter people from uploading such content in the first place.
As for cracking down on those attempting to "game the system with noise," Spotify will increase the minimum track length of functional noise recordings, like white noise and nature sounds, to two minutes in order to be eligible to generate royalties. Since users often stream this type of content for hours, Spotify says this is sometimes exploited by bad actors who cut their tracks artificially short in order to maximize royalty-bearing streams.
"For example, a typical song is a few minutes long," Spotify says. "Some bad actors are shortening whale sound tracks to 30 seconds and stacking them consecutively in a playlist without listeners noticing, so that they earn outsized payments. Beyond track length, noise recordings are valued in the same way as music recordings. The massive growth of the royalty pool has created a revenue opportunity for noise uploaders well beyond their contribution to listeners."
By setting a minimum track length, Spotify believes this type of content will make a fraction of what they were previously earning, which will in turn free up extra money that will go back into the royalty pool for hard-working artists.
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