Spotify unveiled its Wrapped 2022 campaign – anchored by the highly anticipated personalized year-end wrap-up experience for users – and announced the platform’s top artists, songs, albums and podcasts of the year.
Bad Bunny was once again leading the pack, which for the third consecutive year was the most streamed artist worldwide on Spotify. The Puerto Rican rapper and singer’s tracks have generated over 18.5 billion streams so far this year on Spotify, and his album ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ has been the #1 most streamed album worldwide this year. year.
Spotify is celebrating Bad Bunny’s achievement in various Wrapped 2022 promotions, including outdoor billboards and posters in multiple cities inviting fans to find the most streamed artist in a word search. Over the next week, Spotify will also be rolling out a Bad Bunny Easter egg on the platform: when users like or heart-tap one of its tracks, it will transform from Spotify’s classic green heart to a heart. Bad Bunny’s signature red.
Taylor Swift was Spotify’s second most-streamed artist (and most-streamed female artist of the year), a repeat from 2021. Her album “Midnights” landed fourth place on the most-streamed albums in the United States, an impressive feat given that he fell less than six weeks ago on October 21. Additionally, Swift is Spotify’s Most Viral Artist of the Year, meaning her music is the most frequently shared from Spotify to social platforms.
Drake, The Weeknd and BTS complete the top five most-streamed artists worldwide on Spotify for 2022.
Spotify’s most streamed song of 2022 was Harry Styles’ hit “As It Was” with over 1.6 billion streams worldwide that year. In second and third place are respectively “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals and, for the second consecutive year, “Stay (with Justin Bieber)” by Kid Laroi. Fourth and fifth place both come from Bad Bunny with “Me Porto Bonito” and “Tití Me Preguntó”. (See more Spotify Wrapped 2022 charts below.)
On the podcast front, Spotify’s most popular show of 2022 was, like last year, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is available exclusively on the audio platform (learn more about the best Spotify podcasts of the year).
Starting Wednesday, November 30, eligible Spotify users will be able to access their personalized Wrapped 2022 experience exclusively in the mobile app (for iOS and Android) on the Wrapped Hub. More information is available at spotify.com/wrapped.
This year’s Wrapped picks up fan-favorite features, including showing users their top artists, genres, songs, podcasts, and minutes listened to. Spotify has introduced new elements for 2022, including:
- Your listening personality: Spotify has created 16 different types of “listening personalities”, and Wrapped will show users which personality they match based on their listening trends in 2022.
- Develop your artist messages: In 2021, Wrapped featured thank you messages from around 100 artists. This year, Spotify has expanded it to include posts from over 40,000 artists, including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, J Balvin, Pusha T, Shania Twain and Måneskin. Along with messages from your artist, eligible fans will receive a personalized video feed with thank you messages from some of their top artists in 2022, with each video followed by their most streamed song from that artist this year.
- audio day: an interactive story that gives you insight into how your musical tastes change throughout the day.
- Merchant of artists and concerts: In addition to custom and editorial playlists, Spotify’s Wrapped Hub will also feature products from your top artists, as well as listings of upcoming live events.
- More sharing options: This year, fans can share their Wrapped Cards on WhatsApp and Line, as well as unlock a custom Snapchat Lens that reflects their listening personality and access special Wrapped-themed apparel for Bitmoji. Spotify is also launching custom Wrapped-themed GIFs across all Giphy partners.
- Roblox Partnership: In the online gaming platform, the continent of Spotify Island will get a takeover wrapped with quests, games, virtual goods and photo booths with artists such as Bizarrap, Black Sherif, CRO, Doechii, Eslabon Armado , Miranda Lambert, NIKI, Stray Kids, SUNMI and Tové Lo.
Additionally, Spotify launched its Wrapped creator experience for artists and podcasters, providing individualized Wrapped microsites that allow creators to explore how fans listened to their content this year.
Spotify 2022 Wrapped Global Top Lists
Most Streamed Artists Worldwide
- bad bunny
- Taylor Swift
- Duck
- The weekend
- BTS
Most streamed songs in the world
- “As It Was” by Harry Styles
- Heat Waves by Glass Animals
- “Stay (with Justin Bieber)” by Kid Laroi
- “Me Porto Bonito” by Bad Bunny feat. Chencho Corleone
- “Tití Me Preguntó” by Bad Bunny
Most streamed albums in the world
- “Un Verano Sin Ti”, Bad Bunny
- “Harry’s House”, Harry Styles
- “Sour”, Olivia Rodrigo
- “=” (equals), Ed Sheeran
- “Planet Elle”, Doja Cat
World’s most viral artists
- Taylor Swift
- The weekend
- bad bunny
- BTS
- Lana Del Rey
Most shared lyrics in the world
- Heat Waves by Glass Animals
- “Heather” by Conan Gray
- “I Love You So Much” door The Walters
- “Summertime Sadness” by Lana Del Rey
- “Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane
Spotify 2022 Wrapped US Top Lists
Most Streamed American Artists
- Duck
- Taylor Swift
- bad bunny
- Kanye West
- The weekend
Top Streamed Songs in the United States
- “As It Was” by Harry Styles
- Heat Waves by Glass Animals
- “Bad Habit” by Steve Lacy
- “Me Porto Bonito” by Bad Bunny feat. Chencho Corleone
- “First Class” by Jack Harlow
Most Streamed Albums in the United States
- “Un Verano Sin Ti”, Bad Bunny
- “Harry’s House”, Harry Styles
- “Dangerous: The Double Album”, Morgan Wallen
- “Midnights”, Taylor Swift
- “Sour”, Olivia Rodrigo
