Make Me Feel Good is followed by Elton John’s Cold Heart behind him is another boomer, Kate Bush, whose Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) benefited from a deal with Netflix that saw it feature prominently in season four of Stranger Things.Īnd not many Spotify artists rack up anything like enough to make a living from the service: globally, the music of an estimated 11 million artists is on Spotify only 9,000 of those artists are reported to have more than 100,000 streams a year. Otherwise it’s international pop all the way down, with Harry Styles’s sweet, slight As It Was claiming top spot, followed by Where Are You Now by the Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies, and Heat Waves by the UK indie band Glass Animals. If his solitary presence in those lists were not sobering enough for the domestic music industry, a sole Irish track features in the countdown of Spotify’s most popular songs in Ireland this year: Make Me Feel Good, a retro dance number from the Dublin duo Belters Only, which comes fourth.
Irish singers’ relative lack of success on Spotify will add fuel to the claim that it doesn’t do enough for artists, particularly when it comes to the royalties it pays each time a listener streams a song He comes in at number six – squeezed between Kanye West and The Weeknd – with his debut album, Without Fear, landing as Spotify’s fourth-most-streamed LP of 2022 here. Only one Irish artist, Dermot Kennedy, makes Spotify’s Ireland top 10. That’s no surprise: she’s also the most streamed musician in the UK and the number two globally, behind Bad Bunny. Taylor Swift has been the streaming service’s top artist in Ireland over the past 12 months. Spotify has revealed its most streamed songs in Ireland in 2022 – and the results are simultaneously less than earth shattering and more than revealing about the state of home-grown music.
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