Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper Top Spotify’s 2024 Wrapped Lists

Taylor Swift was the most streamed artist globally on Spotify in 2024, while Joe Rogan and Alex Cooper topped the platform’s podcast charts.

This is the fifth year in a row The Joe Rogan Experience has been the top podcast on Spotify and comes after he interviewed former President Donald Trump on his show leading up to the election. Cooper, who is the host call her daddy interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris on her show, taking second place for the second year in a row.

Notably, the two podcasts still topped the chart after Spotify relinquished exclusivity of both titles. The top five podcasts globally also included Huberman Lab and This last weekend with Theo Von in third and fourth place and The Diary of A CEO with Steven Bartletta British video podcast, in fifth place.

While the top four are well-known titles, Jordan Newman, Spotify’s head of content partnerships, said the popularity of The diary of A CEO ppeak to the increasing globalization of podcasts, driven by video.

“I think there are a lot of new podcasts launching today that start with video,” Newman shared The Hollywood Reporter. “It certainly feels like it’s becoming an endemic part of the podcast industry for the right podcast that can support those kinds of creative formats.”

It’s the second year in a row Swift has topped the music chart with 26.6 billion streams globally, and her dominance this year came after the release of her album, Department of Tortured Poets, in April, which was also the most streamed album globally on Spotify in 2024, and in the middle of her Eras Tour. The list of top five artists was rounded out by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish. Sabrina Carpenter had the most streamed song globally with “Espresso”, which had more than 1.6 billion streams.

For the first time, Spotify included a ranking of the best audiobooks on the platform, after introducing the offer in 2022 and then expanding it in November 2023 by offering 15 hours of free audiobook listening to premium members in the US and select other countries. A dish of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Maas claimed first place, followed by Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien, I’m glad my mother died by Jennette McCurdy, A court of mist and furyanother book in the series by Maas, and It ends with us by Colleen Hoover.

Sci-Fi and Fantasy were the most popular audiobook genres in the US, followed by Romance. The platform also saw big increases in listening related to book-to-screen adaptations, with Evil (which was up 1,400 percent after its opening weekend)It ends with us (up 200 percent after the opening weekend and 570 percent for Hoover’s entire catalog on Spotify) and Bridgerton (which had a 143 percent increase after the premiere).

Part of the trend toward book-to-screen titles comes as Spotify works in partnership with movie studios to promote titles on the platform, said Rebecca McGuire, Spotify’s head of audiobook partnerships and licensing. But the most popular titles and genres also speak to the user base on the platform.

“In general, the Spotify demographic is a bit younger,” McGuire said. “So I think we’re kind of in that sweet spot of that romance (romance and fantasy) that we’re really seeing translate,”

Spotify didn’t create audiobook playlists for individual users this year, but offers authors, as well as podcast creators and other artists, access to data about listener demographics and habits on the platform.

In the first year, Spotify will also offer users an AI-generated podcast, built with Google’s NotebookLM, which provides an audio overview of the user’s personal music listening habits to those in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Sweden.

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