Yahoo News Spotify Wrapped 2022: What were the biggest hits this year?
Spotify has revealed the biggest artists, songs, and podcasts of the past 12 months as part of its year-end Wrapped 2022 charts.
The world’s biggest music streamer boasts 456 million users across its free and premium services, making it an authority on trending tracks and musicians around the world.
As usual, the annual Wrapped rundown features the top artists, songs, and albums in the UK and globally. The list is chock full of superstars new and old, from the punchy pop of Olivia Rodrigo to Queen’s timeless rock anthems. Here in the UK, we continued to press play on homegrown crooners Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran, while the world couldn’t get enough of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny and pop maven Taylor Swift.
Here’s who topped the Spotify Wrapped 2022 charts.
Spotify Wrapped 2022: Top UK music
Top Artists in the UK:
1. Taylor Swift
2. Drake
3. Ed Sheeran
4. Harry Styles
5. Kanye West
6. The Weeknd
7. Dave
8. Eminem
9. Arctic Monkeys
10. D-Block Europe
Top Songs in the UK:
1. As It Was - Harry Styles
2. Heat Waves - Glass Animals
3. Starlight - Dave
4. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
5. Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender
6. Where Are You Now - Lost Frequencies
7. Afraid to Feel - LF System
8. Shivers - Ed Sheeran
9. Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran
10. Baby (feat. Ashanti) - Aitch
Top Albums in the UK:
1. Harry’s House - Harry Styles
2. = - Ed Sheeran
3. Encanto - Lin Manuel-Miranda
4. SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo
5. Midnights - Taylor Swift
Spotify Wrapped 2022: Top global music
Top Artists Globally:
1. Bad Bunny
2. Taylor Swift
3. Drake
4. The Weeknd
5. BTS
6. Ed Sheeran
7. Harry Styles
8. Justin Bieber
9. Kanye West
10. Eminem
Top Tracks Globally:
1. As It Was - Harry Styles
2. Heat Waves - Glass Animals
3. Stay (with Justin Bieber) - The Kid LAROI
4. Me Porto Bonito - Bad Bunny
5. Tití Me Preguntó - Bad Bunny
6. Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) - Elton John and Dua Lipa
7. Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52 - Bizarrap
8. Enemy (with JID) - Imagine Dragons
9. Ojitos Lindos - Bad Bunny
10. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
Top Albums Globally:
1. Un Verano Sin Ti - Bad Bunny
2. Harry’s House - Harry Styles
3. SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo
4. = - Ed Sheeran
5. Planet Her - Doja Cat
Top UK Artists Globally:
1. Ed Sheeran
2. Harry Styles
3. Dua Lipa
4. Coldplay
5. Adele
6. Arctic Monkeys
7. Queen
8. One Direction
9. Calvin Harris
10. Elton John
Top K-Pop artists globally:
1. BTS
2. Blackpink
3. Twice
4. Stray Kids
5. Seventeen
Spotify Wrapped 2022 is available now on the Spotify app for iOS and Android.
The feature is available as part of an update to the Spotify app (version 8.7.78), so make sure you manually download it if you don’t have automatic updates enabled on your phone.
