One of the year’s most unlikely streaming success stories came in the form of Kate Bush, whose 1985 hit ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’ became the tenth most streamed song, after it played a pivotal role in the latest season of Stranger Things. Similar British success stories came in the form of Glass Animals, who secured the second biggest song both in the UK and globally with ‘Heat Waves’, which secured a staggering 1.1bn streams across the globe.īut there was room for older artists too. The track is the lead single from Styles’ third album Harry’s House, which also became the UK’s biggest album of the year on Spotify.

That success spread to the rest of the world, too, with the track also sitting pretty as Spotify’s biggest global track of 2022 with 1.6bn streams. Styles, meanwhile, bagged the year’s biggest UK song with ‘As It Was’, which notched up close to 97m streams in the UK since its release in April.

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It accelerated her to over 805m streams in the UK, while the album became the streaming platform’s most streamed album in a day. Pop icon Swift is the most listened to artist for 2022, helped in part by the release of her latest album Midnights in October.

Spotify has revealed its biggest artists and songs in the UK for 2022 – with Taylor Swift and Harry Styles leading the charge.

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