The kind of song that sounds extremely meaningful, even if what that meaning actually is, is not immediately obvious to anyone. The song essentially took over the world upon its release, hitting the top ten in nine countries and featuring heavily in various advertising campaigns, including the likes of Nintendo Switch and the 2017 Superbowl, in addition to underscoring the season finale of Riverdale. With its stop-start dynamic rhythm and vague lyrics, this generic self-help tape is set over a burping clattering racket where every instrument seems to have been mixed to be louder than every other instrument advertising catnip. Imagine Dragons’ third US top ten single, and lead single for their third album, “Believer”, is almost exactly the same as their first two US top ten singles, at least as far as we can tell.

The most-streamed female artists were Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Cardi B, Taylor Swift, and Camila Cabello.A perfect introduction to both the sort of mainstream uber hits that will be populating this list, and the truly massive numbers we will be dealing with here. The gender equality news was no better on the band front, with Imagine Dragons, BTS, Maroon 5, Migos, and last-year's top dogs Coldplay turning Spotify's most-streamed groups into an unrepentant sausage party. If you twigged into the fact that hip-hop ruled Spotify this year, give yourself a gold star for being observant. Post Malone, deceased rapper XXXTentacion, and Columbia's J Balvin rounded out the top five. So how were such breakthrough artists celebrated on the mammoth streaming service known as Spotify? Predictably they were-along with every artist in the lacking-a-penis department-buried deep down.Īccording to the company's stats, the most popular artists on the site were all dudes, Drake taking over from Ed Sheeran (who slipped to number five) as the most-streamed artists of 2018.

Rico Nasty proved to be the rap star you don't want to fuck with her bareknuckled, punk-as-fuck 'Smack a Bitch', Casey Musgraves continued to reinvent classic country with 'Slow Burn', and boygenius suggested that maybe indie rock has a future after all with 'Salt in the Wound'. Video of Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin - I Like It

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