

2 and which, since its release in June 2020, has surpassed 2 billion worldwide streams in total on Spotify. Oxford band Glass Animals’ long-running hit Heat Waves is at No.

1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the fourth longest chart-topping run of all time and the most by a British artist since the chart’s inception in 1958. 1 hit across the world, including in Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the US where in October it spent its 15 th week at No. It also comes as UK artists occupy four of the top five places on Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 Songs chart for the first time ever.Īs It Was has been a No. Underlying the spectacular and enduring demand for British artists and music around the world, the strong UK presence on the world’s leading music streaming service is revealed as part of Spotify’s Wrapped for 2022 which unveils the most popular artists, tracks and albums of the past year. The first single from Styles’ third solo album Harry’s House was streamed an unrivalled 1.6 billion times worldwide on the streaming service last year, heading a year-end Top 10 that also included tracks by fellow UK artists Glass Animals, Elton John & Dua Lipa and Kate Bush.

UK artists are behind four of the ten most-streamed tracks globally on Spotify over the past year, led by Harry Styles’ As It Was.
