Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry and Pharrell top Spotify’s ‘most-streamed’ list for 2014

Only 14 artists have been streamed more than 1 billion times on Spotify – and you can find pretty much all of them in the Year in Music selection just revealed from Spotify, based on more than 7 billion hours of music played by nearly 50 million users. Meanwhile – in traditional music sales world – just a single artist’s album went platinum: Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ – one of the few you still can’t find on Spotify. The Top 5 charts here won’t surprise you: Katy Perry is the top female artist, and Ed Sheeran the top male. Both are…



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