List of most streamed songs in the United Kingdom

"Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran is one of the most streamed in the United Kingdom, with over 79 million streams.

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 2012. They are taken from on-demand audio streaming services, including Spotify, Deezer, Napster, O2 Tracks, Music Unlimited, Xbox Music and rara, members of the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).[3]

In July 2014, the OCC announced that Pompeii by Bastille was the most streamed song in the UK with 26.6 million streams.[3] Since then this number has been passed by several songs including "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran, which has been streamed over 79 million times. "Cheerleader" by OMI) was the most streamed song of 2015 with 71.7 million[4] and "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne was the most streamed song in 2014 with just short of 40 million.[5]

The song that has been streamed the most times in a chart week is "One Dance" by Drake, which was streamed 7.86 million times in the week ending 5 May 2016,[6] before breaking breaking its own record the following week with 8.95 million streams.[7] 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,[8] "Uptown Funk" broke the 2 million streams barrier at the end of 2014[9] and in April 2015 "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth passed 3 million streams for the first time. In November 2015, "Hello" by Adele almost doubled the record to 7.32 million streams and, in the same week, Justin Bieber also passed 4 million.[10]

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[11] 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.[12][13]

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[14] and 17 more than 20 million times.[15]

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.

No. Song title Artist Released Streams (millions)
"Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran June 2014 79.3+[5][4]
"Love Yourself" Justin Bieber November 2015 77.05[16]
"Cheerleader" OMI April 2015 71.7[4]
"Uptown Funk" Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars December 2014 70+[4][14]
"Lean On" Major Lazer & DJ Snake featuring MØ April 2015 65.4[4]
"Take Me to Church" Hozier January 2014 65+[4][14]
"All of Me" John Legend August 2013 62+
"What Do You Mean?" Justin Bieber May 2015 58.3[4]
"Where Are Ü Now" Jack Ü and Justin Bieber May 2015 51.8[4]
"See You Again" Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth March 2015 48.3+[4]
"Sorry" Justin Bieber October 2015 48.3[4]
"Rather Be" Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne January 2014 41.0+[17]
"Happy" Pharrell Williams November 2013 40.0+[18]

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, Daniel (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 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Copsey, Rob (6 January 2016). "The Official Top 40 most streamed songs of 2015 revealed". Official Charts Company.
  5. 1 2 Copsey, Rob (January 1, 2015). "The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2014". Official Charts Company.
  6. ↑ Copsey, Rob (29 April 2016). "Drake's One Dance smashes Official Chart record to score a third week at Number 1". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Copsey, Rob (6 May 2016). "Drake beats Calvin Harris and Rihanna to Number 1". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  8. ↑ Kreisler, Lauren (28 September 2014). "Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass becomes first song to chart on streams alone". officialcharts.com.
  9. ↑ Kreisler, Lauren (21 December 2014). "Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk breaks all-time streaming record!". officialcharts.com.
  10. ↑ Copsey, Rob (30 October 2015). "Adele smashes Official Chart records with comeback single Hello". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ "UK Singles Chart 13 December 2014". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Top 40 UK Single Sales". 13 December 2014.
  14. 1 2 3 Copsey, Rob (3 July 2015). "The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2015 so far". Official Charts Company.
  15. ↑ "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.
  16. ↑ Copsey, Rob (4 April 2016). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2016 so far revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  17. ↑ #ChartFact: #BRITs2015 @cleanbandit's Rather Be FT @JessGlynne has been streamed 41m times! Official Charts Company on Twitter. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  18. ↑ Copsey, Rob (11 June 2015). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles of the Millennium so far revealed". Official Charts Company.

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