Spotify Wrapped 2024: The UK’s top artists, songs and albums revealed

After much anticipation, Spotify Wrapped 2024 has finally dropped. And, as always, it’s revealed more about each of us than we’d care to admit. That song you were obsessed with back in March but now can’t stand? There it is, top of the pile. All those tunes that feature heavily on playlists you use to sleep, work or gym? Now you know exactly how many times you’ve heard them. 

But this year’s Spotify Wrapped goes beyond mere individual listeners. Spotify has also released data for the UK as a whole, offering insights into all the biggest artists, songs, albums and audiobooks that Britain has gorged on in 2024. 

The UK’s Spotify Wrapped for 2024 reveals the biggest musical trends of the past 12 months, featuring plenty of the year’s hottest names plus several established favourites. So, without further ado, what have we all been listening to? 

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The top artist listened to in the UK was, surprise, surprise, Taylor Swift. Her dominance is easy to understand, given that Taylor’s Eras Tour over the summer was one of the year’s biggest musical events. Swift also scooped up the title of ‘most-streamed album’ in the UK this year, with 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. 

The most-streamed individual song by Brits this year was Noah Kahan’s ‘Stick Season’. There’s no denying that Kahan is now a bona fide superstar and massively popular over here – he’s even headlining London’s massive BST Hyde Park next summer. 

The UK’s Spotify Wrapped is also broken down into genres, revealing the nation’s top picks for rock and indie artist (Arctic Monkeys) and song (‘I Wanna Be Yours’ by Arctic Monkeys), metal artist (Bring Me The Horizon) and song (‘Paranoid’ by Black Sabbath), and rap artist (Central Cee) and song (‘BAND4BAND’ by Central Cee feat. Lil Baby).

Here’s the breakdown of the top five artists, albums and songs in the UK’s 2024 Spotify Wrapped. 

The UK’s most streamed artists in 2024

1. Taylor Swift
2. Drake
3. Kanye West
4. Billie Eilish
5. The Weeknd

 The UK’s most streamed songs in 2024

1. ‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan
2. ‘Espresso’ by Sabrina Carpenter
3. ‘Beautiful Things’ by Benson Boone
4. ‘Too Sweet’ by Hozier
5. ‘Lose Control’ by Teddy Swims

The UK’s most streamed albums in 2024

1. The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology by Taylor Swift
2. Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter
3. Stick Season by Noah Kahan
4. Hit Me Hard And Soft by Billie Eilish
5. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift 

The country’s top podcast was the The Joe Rogan Experience, while most-listened-to audiobook was JRR Tolkein’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Can’t beat a classic, eh? 

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