There was a streaming chart as early as 2012 I believe - Call Me Maybe was the first #1 IIRC. But I don’t know if the pre July 2014 data would be included.

Oh indeed, that slipped my mind completely!

TLC being the only featured girl group!

TLC being the only featured girl group!

The Ronettes are there too! :heart:

Summer of '69 has become a classic deserves to be most streamed single of 1985. Originally it only ranked 317th with 36000 sales.

Some of the more recent most-streamed songs are very a much a case of "eh, what?" to me, Vance Joy frinstance. I bought it, I charted it (peak 19) and now barely remember it. 2013 was the year of La La La, Don't You Worry Child, Stay, Under Control, Animals, Summertime Sadness, Get Lucky, Mirrors, Counting Stars, and yet for some inexplicable reason Riptide gets most streams :o Bizarre.....

 

Partly In The USA ditto. Eh what?! It's not even worthy of Midnight Sky (which should be on the list), I can only guess it's down to kids of a certain age back then getting all nostalgic for the noughties, unless it's in a film....?

'Party In The USA' is a little surprising being the top song for 2009 streams here. Shame it's not one of Miley's better songs getting that preference really.

Global Spotify streams of some huge 2009 hits:

 

Party in the USA - 1.042 billion

Poker Face - 0.795

Bad Romance - 0.828

I Gotta Feeling - 0.941

 

'Party' is way bigger in the US than other three (because of the 4th of July celebrations alone), but fairly surprising to see it being the biggest in the UK too.

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Personally I noticed that during Miley's comeback in 2013 (I think it was) I started hearing Party In The USA again sometimes, after not hearing it at all for years. So that might be a factor.

I imagine Levitating and Heat Waves aren't far behind Head & Heart

Just going on chart sales which aren’t quite the same thing but shouldn’t be way off:

 

Head & heart 2.38m (now doing around 5k per week)

Heat waves 2.05m (now 13k per week)

Levitating 1.87m (now 7k per week)

 

So Heat Waves should get there but will take quite a while.

I’m so confused by so many of the songs on this list! I mentioned this in the greatest hits top 300 countdown thread but I don’t know Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G at all. I didn’t even recognise it when I listened to it - is it really that massive a song? 1994 is the year of both Mariah and East 17 both of which I assume are bigger?!

I know Christmas songs were discounted from the radio listenthrough. I assume from this as well.

It does specifically say this time that Christmas songs are excluded!

 

It is a little surprising that 'Juicy' comes out as the top song of the entire year 1994 but it was the lead single from one of the most highly acclaimed and iconic hip-hop albums of all time so it's not like it's completely out of nowhere. I don't know it super well but giving it a quick listen now the opening line ('it was all a dream...') was instantly recognisable as an iconic hip-hop line, I think it's been referenced a lot in other songs.

 

Interestingly though it's not actually even the most streamed song from that album on Spotify - 'Big Poppa' has nearly 75 million more streams. That is worldwide of course so I guess 'Juicy' must have more appeal specifically in the UK for some reason.

Radio 2 will air a special edition on Unwinds at 10pm on Sunday celebrating the most streamed chill out music in celebration of this anniversary too

I'm surprised to find out Wannabe isn't the most streamed 1996 song. :blink:

I'm surprised to find out Wannabe isn't the most streamed 1996 song. :blink:

 

I’m not. The kids I teach are all into older music but no one ever mentions Spice Girls.

I’m not. The kids I teach are all into older music but no one ever mentions Spice Girls.

Are they into P!nk though? :coffee:

If someone asked me which 1994 song is the most streamed in the UK, I would've guessed Live Forever.

In the full countdown of most streamed songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s, No Diggity was #45 and Wannabe was #70, so it's not far behind!

Are they into P!nk though? :coffee:

 

Not really but then I’m not sure how that’s even relevant to the discussion since Pink isn’t featured in this list at all. If you’re going to have a dig, try to be more subtle.