1 global artist of the year, Bad Bunny – who also finished at No. The overall list is ranked based on the number of unique listeners, while the individual list is ranked based on total minutes listened.)Īs for Spotify’s top 5 artist lists, the No. (Note: Stream count doesn’t apply to the top 5 podcast lists.

Ditto Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” which was released on March 26 and ended the year as the second most-streamed track on Spotify’s global tally. Whatever the case, that timeframe obviously privileges songs released early in the year, like Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” – the most-streamed song on Spotify both globally and domestically in 2021 – which was released way back on Jan. 27, though Spotify wouldn’t confirm the specific date they stopped tallying streams for the individual lists, saying only that it was “a few weeks prior” to Wrapped’s Dec. For the overall lists, streams are counted between January 1 and Nov. The three most anticipated Wrapped statistics – top 5 artists, top 5 songs and top 5 albums– are based on total number of streams (a stream being counted when a user listens to a track for at least 30 seconds, including offline listens).

Spotify wrapped 2021 stats