Ed Sheeran is Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2014, new figures from the online music service have revealed.
The ubiquitous singer songwriter clocked up more than 860m listens on Spotify while his latest, million selling album X, is globally the most streamed album with 430m streams.
Elsewhere, Spotify’s report showed that Katy Perry was the most streamed female, Coldplay the most streamed group and alt-j were the breakout artist of 2014.
Pharrell's huge hit Happy was the most streamed song of the year globally while a total of seven billion hours was streamed on the service by a total of 50m users.
View Spotify’s latest report from the last year.
These latest achievements add up to a big year for Ed Sheeran with the release of his second LP. Official Charts Company (OCC) data, released earlier this week, showed that X has reached million seller status in the UK this year.
According to figures, the album joins the likes of Adele in 2011 (21 and 19), Take That in 2010 (Progress) and Susan Boyle in 2009 (I Dreamed a Dream) in hitting this million seller mark.
The ubiquitous singer songwriter clocked up more than 860m listens on Spotify while his latest, million selling album X, is globally the most streamed album with 430m streams.
Elsewhere, Spotify’s report showed that Katy Perry was the most streamed female, Coldplay the most streamed group and alt-j were the breakout artist of 2014.
Pharrell's huge hit Happy was the most streamed song of the year globally while a total of seven billion hours was streamed on the service by a total of 50m users.
View Spotify’s latest report from the last year.
These latest achievements add up to a big year for Ed Sheeran with the release of his second LP. Official Charts Company (OCC) data, released earlier this week, showed that X has reached million seller status in the UK this year.
According to figures, the album joins the likes of Adele in 2011 (21 and 19), Take That in 2010 (Progress) and Susan Boyle in 2009 (I Dreamed a Dream) in hitting this million seller mark.
