Spotify Reveales Most Popular Tracks in 2012

Spotify Reveales Most Popular Tracks in 2012
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Spotify Reveales Most Popular Tracks in 2012

Spotify, one of the world’s premier music streaming services has just released data from this past year highlighting what their subscribers were mostly listening to.

Categorized by artists, songs, albums and demographic, the rankings  may come as a surprise, or maybe not.

Check out the full breakdown below!

Most-streamed tracks of 2012 (global)

1. Gotye featuring Kimbra – ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’
2. Carly Rae Jepsen – ‘Call Me Maybe’
3. Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe – ‘We Are Young’
4. Flo Rida – ‘Whistle’
5. Flo Rida featuring Sia – ‘Wild Ones’

Most-streamed tracks of 2012 in the UK

1. Gotye featuring Kimbra – ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’
2. Carly Rae Jepsen – ‘Call Me Maybe’
3. David Guetta featuring Sia – ‘Titanium’
4. Fun featuring Janelle Monae – We Are Young
5. Nicki Minaj – ‘Starships’

Most-streamed albums of 2012

1. David Guetta – ‘Nothing But The Beat’
2. Gotye – ‘Making Mirrors’
3. Drake – ‘Take Care’
4. Lana Del Ray – ‘Born To Die’
5. One Direction – ‘Up All Night’

Most-streamed female artists

1. Rihanna
2. Nicki Minaj
3. Adele
4. Lana Del Ray
5. Katy Perry

Most-streamed male artists

1. David Guetta
2. Flo Rida
3. Eminem
4. Skrillex
5. Gotye

Most-streamed bands

1. Coldplay
2. Maroon 5
3. Fun
4. Mumford and Sons
5. Florence and the Machine

Max G. | Elite.

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