Very interesting, and sometimes surprising, list. :thinking:

What the hell? I’ve never heard the songs from 2001, 2006, 2007 or 2010

 

You've never heard of Naïve? :blink:

Amazed by some of the songs on this list. Hey, Soul Sister is the biggest shock for me. If you'd asked me what 2009's most streamed song was last year, I'd have said I Gotta Feeling with no hesitation.

 

Last Nite is another surprise for me too, actually. It Wasn't Me would've been my guess.

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And even though Ed Sheeran is the biggest artist on Spotify by a mile, I'd have still put money on We Found Love being higher up than The A Team.

What would be interesting is to see this list but excluding playlists

Cos this is not an indication of popularity but of playlists

No surprises in the list if one follows spotify, fluorescent adolescent or naive chart on a regular basis but its cos of playlists

Its not cos suddenly 100,000 people search for Naive on a given Thursday

Its cos its song @1 on a promoted playlist

The only real surprise for me is James as i dont recall ever seeing it top 200

As regards 'What You Know', although only a modest (no 64) sales hit in February 2011, it has tended to feature around the Top 200 or not-far-below echelon of the charts for some years, as have a couple of Two-Door Cinema Club singles. It has hovered around that sort of level for a long period, trickle-selling consistently on download. I don't know the OCC tallies, but I suspect it has probably proven to be one of the act's biggest sellers overall - if not the biggest. So perhaps the fact that the steady drip of understated but enduring interest now seen in recent streaming of the track isn't quite so surprising, as its appeal in the sales-only arena has been unusually persistent for a song that was never a major hit at any time.

 

Saying that, when one considers the likely saturation on streaming of some of the really big hitters released in each calendar year - particularly those issued in the 2010s contemporaneous to the rise of streaming as a mode of consuming music - it is notable that some much-more minor songs were apparently streamed more during last year than those were. I think the point made above about the time of year some of these were released is important, though it only partially-explains the unexpectedly-weaker showing of the megahits for some years in 2017 streaming terms. An interesting list and one I hope they repeat next year; the comparison will be intriguing and year-on-year will help to build a longer-term view on what the truly most-enduring songs on streaming actually are. I suspect that tracks like 'Africa', 'Wonderwall', 'Mr Brightside' and 'Shape Of You' will likely cling-on to their crowns as most-streamed release of their respective years for quite some time to come.

Did not expect to see Laid.

!! @ What You Know, the success it deserves <3

 

It'd also be interesting to see the equivalent list for airplay, i.e. the songs with the most radio spins in 2017 by year of release, and see how much it overlaps with this one.

It'd also be interesting to see the equivalent list for airplay, i.e. the songs with the most radio spins in 2017 by year of release, and see how much it overlaps with this one.

 

I actually think such a list would be VERY different (except One Last Time and perhaps a few of the older ones).