Spotify’s 2022 Wrapped Results & Experience is Here

Spotify has unveiled its 2022 Wrapped campaign and personalized user experience, inspired by just that. At the same time, Spotify is also unveiling the top artists, songs, albums, and podcasts that made up the vibrant kaleidoscope of the 456M listeners around the world.

Here’s what Canadians and the world streamed most this year:

What did Canadians listen to most in 2022?

• Toronto’s very own Drake locks in the top spot for most streamed artist in Canada.
• Since claiming the top spot in our Songs of Summer list, Harry Styles’ “As It Was” continues to dominate the charts, claiming the top spot for most streamed song globally with over 1.5 billion streams and the most streamed song here in Canada.
  • Harry Styles’ album “Harry’s House” was also the top most streamed album in Canada.

How are Canadian artists representing globally?

• Top Canadian Artists: Drake holds #3 spot globally as the most streamed artist globally, behind Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift respectively.
• Top Song by a Canadian Artist: It’s a “Beautiful Love” between Justin Bieber and his fans, with, “STAY” coming in as the third most streamed song globally.
• Top album by a Canadian Artist: Toronto’s very own The Weeknd took our breath away this year with his album “Dawn FM”, holding the fourth spot as the most streamed album globally.

MUSIC (GLOBAL)

• Most-Streamed Global Artists: Becoming the first artist to top Spotify’s most-streamed artist list three years in a row, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny took the number one spot for most-streamed artist globally, generating more than 18.5 billion streams this year. The second most-streamed artist - and most-streamed female artist of the year - is Taylor Swift (#2), followed by Drake (#3), The Weeknd (#4) and BTS (#5).
  • Spotify is celebrating Bad Bunny’s accomplishment through a number of ways, including:
• Platform Easter Egg: rolling out over the next week,, when users like or tap the heart on a Bad Bunny track, it may transform from our classic green “heart” to Bad Bunny’s iconic red heart.
• Brand Campaign Videos: our brand campaign video features Bad Bunny being quizzed on his streaming milestones on Spotify throughout the year.
• Creative Out of Home (OOH) Ads: They’ve turned the accomplishment into a game for fans to experience in real life, including murals where fans are encouraged to find the top-streamed artist - Bad Bunny - in the creative.

PODCASTS

• Most Popular Podcasts: As for podcasts, The Joe Rogan Experience (#1) takes the number one slot for most popular podcast of the year globally. Coming in second and third are Call Her Daddy (#2) and Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain (#3), followed by thriller/crime series like Caso 63(All Languages, #4) and Crime Junkie (#5).
  • In Canada, The Joe Rogan Experience (#1) also takes the number one spot for the most listened to podcast in Canada, followed by Call Her Daddy (#2), Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard(#3),(#4) and (#5).

For even more on the top lists of 2022, check out Spotify’s For the Record blog along with our Spotify: Discover This podcast episode featuring an interview with Alex Cooper as well as Bad Bunny’s producer and collaborator Tainy.

Starting today, eligible users can also access their personalized 2022 Wrapped experience exclusively in the Spotify mobile app (iOS and Android) on the 2022 Wrapped hub.

In the experience, Spotify is providing fans with some of their favorite Wrapped features like their top artists, songs, albums, podcasts, and genres, plus a slate of new ways to discover and celebrate their year in listening. Here’s what to look out for:

• New Data Stories to Express Your Year in Audio: In addition to your top artists, genres, songs, podcasts and minutes listened, Your Listening Personalityis a new, playful feature that not only tells you about the music you listen to but what that says about your music taste. Fans will learn which of 16 different Spotify-created Listening Personality types they are, based on their 2022 listening trends. Additionally, Audio Day isan interactive story that gives you a peek into how your music taste evolves throughout the day. Check out Spotify’s For the Record to learn more.
• Connecting artists and creators even further: In addition to personalized and editorial playlists, the Wrapped hub on platform will also feature merch from your top artists, along with upcoming events to help fans experience their top artists live.
• Your Artist Messages: This was a hit feature in 2021 with messages from more than 100 artists and this year Spotify has expanded to include messages from more than 40,000 artists like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, J Balvin, Måneskin and more. With Your Artist Messages, eligible fans will get a personalized video feed with thank you messages from some of their top artists in 2022, with each video followed up by your most listened song from that artist this year. See for a video compilation of some of the artist messages.

About Spotify Technology S.A: Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 456 million Monthly Active Users and 195 million Premium Subscribers. With a presence in 183 markets, and more than 80 million tracks including 4.7 million podcast titles, it has transformed the way people access and enjoy music and podcasts.