List of most streamed songs in the United Kingdom

"Sorry" by Justin Bieber was the first song with over 100 million streams in the UK.

In June 2014, the Official Charts Company (OCC) started including audio streams in the official UK Singles Chart, recognising their importance as an indicator of current popular trends and tastes in music. From this point onward, the popularity of a single or album track can be measured by both sales (which include paid downloads) and streams on officially recognised subscription and ad-funded on-demand services.[1][2] Although the OCC added these figures to the chart in July 2014, they started compiling them in May 2012 through the Official Audio Streaming Chart. They are taken from on-demand audio streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Deezer and Tidal, all of which are members of the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).[3]

As of June 2016, the most streamed song in the UK was "Sorry" by Justin Bieber, the first song to pass 100 million streams.[4] By September 2016, it had been joined by two other Bieber songs: "Love Yourself" and "What Do You Mean?" as well as "One Dance" by Drake (the first song to achieve 100 million streams in a calendar year).[5]

"One Dance" is also the song with the most streams in a chart week, with 8.95 million streams in week ending 5 May 2016 (chart week 12 May 2016).[6]

History

In July 2014, the OCC announced that "Pompeii" by Bastille was the most streamed song in the UK with 26.6 million streams.[3] "Cheerleader" by OMI was the most streamed song of 2015 with 71.7 million[7] and "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne was the most streamed song in 2014 with just short of 40 million.[8]

The record for most streams in a week has been broken many times since 2012 when the OCC started measuring it as streaming levels have continued to grow. In 2013, "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk was the first song to achieve 1 million streams in a week,[9] "Uptown Funk" broke the 2 million streams barrier at the end of 2014[10] and in April 2015, "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth passed 3 million streams.[11] In November 2015, "Hello" by Adele almost doubled the record to 7.32 million streams and, in the same week, Bieber also passed 4 million with "Sorry".[12]

In the week ending 4 October 2014, "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor became the first single ever to reach the UK top 40 on streams alone before it was available to buy[9] and in the week ending 13 December 2014, "Thinking Out Loud" became the first song to reach number one despite selling less than the number-two song, due to streaming.[13][14]

During 2015, streaming continued to grow with an 80 percent increase in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2014, with 59 songs being streamed more than 10 million times[15] and 17 more than 20 million times.[16] In total 53.7 billion songs were streamed in the UK in 2015, equating to almost 2,000 songs played in each UK household.[17]

Most streamed songs

These are the most streamed songs using streams from 2014, 2015 and 2016. Due to the rapid rise of streaming levels since 2014, it is unlikely that any songs released before then would have enough to make it onto this list.

Song name Artist Released Streams Ref(s)
"One Dance" Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla April 2016 119,000,000 [18]
"Sorry" Justin Bieber October 2015 100,000,000 [4]
"What Do You Mean?" Justin Bieber May 2015 100,000,000 [5]
"Love Yourself" Justin Bieber November 2015 100,000,000 [5]
"Cheap Thrills" Sia featuring Sean Paul March 2016 91,000,000 [19]
"Uptown Funk" Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars December 2014 88,400,000 [20]
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran June 2014 79,300,000 [8][7]
"7 Years" Lukas Graham February 2016 78,900,000 [18]
"See You Again" Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth March 2015 77,100,000 [21]
"Cheerleader" OMI April 2015 71,700,000 [7]
"Closer" The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey 2016 70,169,500 [22]
"This Is What You Came For" Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna April 2016 70,000,000 [23]
"Work from Home" Fifth Harmony February 2016 70,000,000 [24]
"Lean On" Major Lazer and DJ Snake featuring MØ April 2015 65,400,000 [7]
"Rather Be" Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne January 2014 65,000,000 [25]
"Take Me to Church" Hozier January 2014 65,000,000 [15][7]
"Stitches" Shawn Mendes September 2015 64,900,000 [26]
"I Took a Pill in Ibiza" Mike Posner April 2016 62,100,000 [27]
"All of Me" John Legend August 2013 62,000,000 [28][29]
"Sugar" Maroon 5 January 2015 52,000,000 [30]
"Where Are Ü Now" Jack Ü featuring Justin Bieber May 2015 51,800,000 [7]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams November 2013 50,000,000
As of November 2016

References

  1. ↑ Lane, Dan (23 June 2014). "Streaming and the Official Singles Chart: Everything you need to know!". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Lane, Dan (23 June 2014). "Infographic: The growth of music streaming in the UK". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 Lane, Dan (23 July 2014). "The top 10 most streamed songs and artists of all time revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 Kreisler, Lauren (10 June 2016). "Justin Bieber breaks massive all-time UK streaming record". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 Copsey, Rob (1 September 2016). "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of Summer 2016 revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Copsey, Rob (6 May 2016). "Drake beats Calvin Harris and Rihanna to Number 1". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Copsey, Rob (6 January 2016). "The Official Top 40 most streamed songs of 2015 revealed". Official Charts Company.
  8. 1 2 Copsey, Rob (1 January 2015). "The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2014". Official Charts Company.
  9. 1 2 Kreisler, Lauren (28 September 2014). "Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass becomes first song to chart on streams alone". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Kreisler, Lauren (21 December 2014). "Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk breaks all-time streaming record!". officialcharts.com.
  11. ↑ Hooper, Ryan (20 April 2015). "Wiz Khalifa Fast & Furious 7 tribute 'See You Again' tops UK chart to become fastest-selling single of 2015". The Independent. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  12. ↑ Copsey, Rob (30 October 2015). "Adele smashes Official Chart records with comeback single Hello". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "UK Singles Chart 13 December 2014". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  14. ↑ "Top 40 UK Single Sales". 13 December 2014.
  15. 1 2 Copsey, Rob (3 July 2015). "The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2015 so far". Official Charts Company.
  16. ↑ "Here are the singles that have gone past the 20 million streams mark this year in the UK!". British Phonographic Industry. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  17. ↑ "Only 14% of the UK pays to stream music". BBC Online. BBC News. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  18. 1 2 Copsey, Rob (4 October 2016). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2016 so far revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  19. ↑ Myers, Justin (18 November 2016). "Sean Paul's Official Top 20 biggest selling singles revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  20. ↑ Myers, Justin (12 October 2016). "Bruno Mars' Official Top 10 biggest songs revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  21. ↑ Copsey, Rob (4 April 2016). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2016 so far revealed". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  22. ↑ Jones, Alan (2 December 2016). "Official Charts Analysis: Clean Bandit score fourth week at No.1". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 3 December 2016. (subscription required (help)).
  23. ↑ White, Jack (21 September 2016). "Calvin Harris' Official Top 20 biggest UK singles revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  24. ↑ Corner, Lewis (17 November 2016). "Fifth Harmony win their first ever million-selling single in the UK". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  25. ↑ Copsey, Rob (24 March 2016). "The Top 40 biggest British hits of the decade so far revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  26. ↑ Jones, Alan (20 May 2016). "Official Charts Analysis: Sixth week at the top for Drake's One Dance". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 20 May 2016. (subscription required (help)).
  27. ↑ Jones, Alan (17 June 2016). "Official Charts Analysis: Drake's One Dance sees longest chart reign for nearly a decade". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 17 June 2016. (subscription required (help)).
  28. ↑ "Certified Awards". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  29. ↑ Myers, Justin (10 February 2016). "These are the UK's 20 biggest selling love ballads of all time". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  30. ↑ Jones, Alan (1 July 2016). "Official Charts Analysis: Adele's 25 back on top as sales surge 231%". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 3 July 2016. (subscription required (help)).

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