Drake tops Spotify's yearend most-played listsDecember 1, 2016 - 17:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On Thursday, December 1, music streaming giant Spotify released Wrapped, its annual lists that reveal which songs and artists have made the biggest impact in the music industry in 2016. And for the second consecutive year, Drake tops the most-streamed artist list with over 4.7 billion streams, beating out Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Twenty One Pilots and Kanye West, AceShowbiz said. His album "Views" becomes the most-streamed album and his song "One Dance" is named Spotify's most-streamed track and top breakup song. The Canadian rapper is also the top artist in hip-hop and pop genres. Drake's dominance on Spotify 2016 charts had already been predicted earlier this year. In May, the music streaming platform announced that he had topped Bieber as its most-played artist, and in October, it announced that "One Dance" became the most-streamed song, beating out Major Lazer and DJ Snake's "Lean On" featuring MO. "Drake has been unstoppable this year -- he's a true global superstar," said Stefan Blom, Spotify's Chief Content & Chief Strategy Officer. "With the top album and the top song this year, as well as his successful 'Summer Sixteen' tour, Drake continues to engage his fans in a way that only Drake can; it's no surprise he is dominating the music industry." Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend Rihanna sits at No. 3 on the most-streamed artist list. She tops the list of most-streamed female artist for the second year in a row with 2.5 billion streams. RiRi also has her album "ANTI" landed at No. 3 on the most-streamed album list. Other artists that make up the lists include Zayn Malik, Ariana Grande, Sia Furler, Adele and Fifth Harmony among others. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |