We still have nearly an entire month left of 2024, but I digress: It’s apparently already time to start up the year-end lists machine.
Amid the carefully controlled chaos of it all, streaming platforms have started sharing their respective looks back at the year in music, starting with Apple Music on Tuesday. Today, Spotify Wrapped, for days now the subject of memes related to users’ impatience regarding the feature’s 2024 launch date, has been unveiled.
Taylor Swift, as expected, comes in at the top of the platform’s list of the top 10 artists globally. The singer’s 2024 included the rollout of her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, not to mention the continuation of her blockbuster Eras Tour. Per Spotify, Swift, who also topped the same chat in 2023, scored just under 27 billion streams.
Other highlights from the top 10 global artists on Spotify include The Weeknd (fresh off a record-setting run on the platform), Drake (whose historic back-and-forth with Kendrick Lamar has dominated music news coverage this year), and Ye (who released two albums with Ty Dolla Sign in 2024).
Swift is also the No. 1 artist in the U.S. on Spotify for 2024, followed by Drake and Zach Bryan. Rounding out the top five on that ranking are Morgan Wallen and Ye. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” meanwhile, stands as the top song in the U.S., while Kendrick’s “Not Like Us” lands at No. 2. As previously reported, the Grammy-nominated diss came out on top in Apple Music’s year-end stats.
Several of the big names in Spotify’s goodbye-to-2024 campaign are expected to be on the precipice of launching new projects, perhaps even before year’s end. Drake, for example, has been teasing a collaborative full-length with PARTYNEXTDOOR. Recent remarks suggested the project was nearing completion, though no firm date has been given.
The artist formerly known as Kanye West has also been teasing a new solo project, Bully, complete with a cover art reveal and live debuts of tentative album cuts. If the project doesn’t go the way of Yandhi, it’ll mark Ye’s first solo full-length since 2021’s Donda.