A victory in a pocket handkerchief. In the race for the title of the most listened to song of 2024 on Spotify, it was Sabrina Carpenter who topped the ranking. But at the last moment, on December 31, the new American pop sensation was dethroned by a compatriot. Who ? Billie Eilish! In a final twist, the singer phenomenon lands the most streamed song of the year thanks to her hit “Birds of a Feather”, acclaimed precisely 1,775,172,881 times. In comparison, “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter has 1,774,525,704 plays on the streaming platform. That’s a minimal difference of 650,000 listens! It should also be noted that his other hit “Please Please Please” is positioned eighth in the ranking thanks to 1.13 billion clicks. Proof that Sabrina Carpenter's popularity has exploded in recent months! Third place on the podium is occupied by “Beautiful Things”, a pop-rock hit by the revelation Benson Boone, which charmed 1.771 billion listeners.
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The hat-trick for Sabrina Carpenter!
The song that takes on bib number 4 puts in a great performance: it's the mega hit “Die With A Smile” by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga, which has been listened to 1.41 billion times… in just four months! The top 10 also contains several hits which have seen their popularity explode thanks to social networks, TikTok in the lead. In this respect, we can cite “Gata Only” by Cris MJ and FloyyMenor, “Too Sweet” by Hozier” or “I Like The Way You Kiss Me” by Artemas, which respectively accumulate between 1.36 and 1.12 billion of streams Finally, if Jimin from BTS made the difference with “Who”, Ariana Grande created unanimity with her pop hit “We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”, which records 1.13 billion listens.
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Between 11th and 20th place, we find other sensations like Sabrina Carpenter (“Taste”, 20th), Bruno Mars (“APT”, 18th) or Billie Eilish (“Wildflower”, 19th), but also Chappell Roan (“Good Luck, Babe!”, 11th), Kendrick Lamar (“Not Like Us”, 14th) or Taylor Swift (“Fortnight”, 17th), as well as “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”, the Shaboozey song which holds, tied with Lil Nas X's “Old Town Road”, the record number of 19 weeks spent at the top of the charts Americans. It is the 13th most popular track of the year on Spotify worldwide.
The 10 most listened to songs on Spotify in 2024
1. Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather” (1,775 milliard de streams)
2. Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso” (1,774 milliard de streams)
3. Benson Boone – “Beautiful Things” (1,771 milliard de streams)
4. Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga – “Die With a Smile” (1,41 milliard de streams)
5. Cris Mj, Floyymenor – “Gata Only” (1,36 milliard de streams)
6. Jimin – “Who” (1,28 milliard de streams)
7. Hozier – “Too Sweet” (1,2 milliard de streams)
8. Sabrina Carpenter – “Please Please Please” (1,14 milliard de streams)
9. Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” (1,13 milliard de streams)
10. Artemas – “I Like The Way You Kiss Me” (1,12 milliard de streams)
