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The Most Listened-To Artists And Songs In Each Country, Mapped

The Most Listened-To Artists And Songs In Each Country, Mapped
These are the world's most streamed artists and songs, based on YouTube data.
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You may have seen our round-ups of the best songs and albums of 2022, but which artists and tracks were listened to the most last year?

Liberty Games analyzed play counts from YouTube's Video Music Charts to rank the most listened-to artists and songs in each country around the world.


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Key Findings:

  • The most listened-to artist in the world is Bollywood playback singer Alka Yagnik, who racked up 14.8 billion YouTube streams over the last 12 months.

  • The three most streamed songs on YouTube are all from the Indian movie "Pushpa: The Rise," and have a combined 3.1 billion plays.

  • The top four songs for 2022 are all Indian tracks. After these, "Me Porto Bonito" by Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone is the most listened-to song in the world.





Via Liberty Games.

Comments

  1. diana cartwright 1 month ago

    uruguayan here. Who the heck is Maria Becerra? I can assure you, that is NOT the most popular artist here. And I'm fairly certain it's the same for Argentina...

  2. Jason V Brock 8 months ago

    Young people seem to adore bad music now. It's weird. I call it "Car Alarm Music" b/c it has no real depth, meaning, or gravitas. It's mostly ass-twerking and irritating with very little development and too many hooks.


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