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Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 855 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 129 have surpassed two billion, 17 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
went viral first time in 2020 with users posting their results to social media platforms such as Twitter. Due to an influx of users, the creator of the app, Matt Daniels, has reported frequent crashes. [3] [4] An article in The Verge described the internet bot as being "for people who find Spotify Wrapped too chipper". [5]
In 2022, Spotify became the official streaming partner of FC Barcelona. [127] In May 2022, Spotify announced a partnership with the online game platform and game creation system Roblox, the partnership saw Spotify as the first streaming brand to have a presence within the game with the launch of "Spotify Island". [128]
Spotify has announced that its high-quality audio tier, Spotify HiFi, which it had said would launch in select markets in November, is delayed indefinitely. Responding to a thread on its Community ...
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist, [2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
According to Variety, the most-streamed song on Spotify in 2024 was "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish. The song floated past Carpenter's with 1,775,172,881 streams last year.
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