![]() Last year’s most streamed artist was Bad Bunny and the most streamed song was Blinding Lights by the Weeknd. Both the request and the change point to the service’s dominance in the music industry: Even the world’s biggest stars understand how much it matters how their songs appear and play on Spotify. Spotify made the change, hiding the shuffle button from albums and making top to bottom play the default option. Artists, even massive ones such as Adele, rely on Spotify to reach fans but they are starting to push back against the service’s control over how people listen to their music.Īdele recently asked Spotify to remove the shuffle option when listening to an album, stating that the order of songs is part of an artist’s intention and tells a complete story when played start to finish. 19, also garnered just more than 60 million streams within the first two days of its debut, poising it to make Spotify history. Adele’s Easy on Me, the first single off her new album, 30, became the most-streamed song on Spotify within a single day. When an artist such as Swift or Adele releases a new album, one of the first metrics of success, besides album sales, has become the number of streams on the app. ![]() But is Spotify’s hegemony ultimately good for how we consume music? Did you spend most of 2021 crying to Olivia Rodrigo’s Drivers License, scrutinizing Taylor Swift’s new version of Red or bopping to Justin Bieber? Or, like me, did you replay the same five songs from the nineties over and over again?Īpart from being a fun way to showcase what you’ve been streaming all year, Wrapped is also a reminder of Spotify’s dominance in the music-streaming space. Wrapped has become a hugely popular way to signal to friends and strangers alike what kind of year you’ve had. In fact, I fully expect the Swedes to figure prominently in my Spotify Wrapped, the streaming service’s highly anticipated and much-shared year in review, a social-media-friendly window into your listening habits, both good and bad. It’s certainly a shock to my Spotify algorithm that Abba is only just being recognized by the Grammys now, since the band’s many hits have become a constant soundtrack to my life, a holdover from my disco-loving parents and a favourite with my kids. The very late-in-life first-time nod is a surprise to many who know too well the band’s blockbuster hits, including Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen and Take a Chance on Me. Nearly 50 years after making their pop debut, Swedish megaband Abba has just received its very first Grammy nomination for its latest album, I Still Have Faith in You.
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