Spotify introduced on Wednesday (November 30) that Unhealthy Bunny has develop into the service’s largest world artist for the third 12 months in a row, after his music was streamed over 18.5 billion instances on the platform.
However that 2022 quantity is much more knock-out than it would first sound – as a result of the unbiased Puerto Rican celebrity really managed to DOUBLE his stream depend on the service this 12 months vs. 2021.
Final 12 months, Unhealthy Bunny obtained over 9.1 billion streams, reaching that tally with out even having launched an album in 2021.
In 2020, he had achieved over 8.3 billion streams on Spotify by December 1.
In 2019, Submit Malone claimed the spot of most-streamed artist globally on Spotify with 6.5 billion streams.
The 12 months earlier than that, in 2018, Drake was the platform’s most-streamed artist globally, with 8.2 billion streams.
Spotify revealed Unhealthy Bunny’s world streaming stat for the 12 months Wednesday (November 30) as a part of the streaming-giant’s Spotify Wrapped feature for 2022.
Unhealthy Bunny additionally dominated the platform’s charts, with three of his tracks — Me Porto Bonito, Tití Me Preguntó, and Ojitos Lindos — showing on the High 10 Tracks globally.
Unhealthy Bunny’s studio album, Un Verano Sin Ti, launched in Might, took the spot because the most-streamed album worldwide in 2022, beating Harry Kinds’ Harry’s Home, Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR, Ed Sheeran’s = and Doja Cat’s Planet Her.
Earlier this 12 months, Spotify confirmed that on Friday, Might 6, Unhealthy Bunny became the all-time most-streamed artist globally on its platform in a single day.
He racked up 183 million Spotify streams inside 24 hours.
Spotify wasn’t the one streaming platform the place Unhealthy Bunny broke information this 12 months.
His album Un Verano Sin Ti was additionally essentially the most streamed album of 2022 on Apple Music in addition to “the largest Latin album of all time” on the platform.
He was named on November 9 as Apple Music’s ‘Artist of the Year’, in recognition, in line with the platform, of his “inventive excellence and affect on world tradition in 2022”.Music Enterprise Worldwide