{"id":173132,"date":"2025-12-03T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/173132\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:20:08","slug":"taylor-swift-is-irelands-spotify-wrapped-most-streamed-artist-but-loses-global-crown-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/173132\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is Ireland\u2019s Spotify Wrapped most-streamed artist but loses global crown \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOh hey, so if this is popping up on your phone, then chances are you listened to a lot of my music on Spotify<\/a> this year. It\u2019s Taylor by the way,\u201d says Taylor Swift<\/a>, dressed in festive red before a Christmas<\/a> tree backdrop. \u201cThank you for doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is part of the \u201cword from one of your favourites\u201d segment of Spotify Wrapped, by now almost as familiar as the annual Wrapped streaming recap itself.<\/p>\n

Swift was the most-streamed artist on Spotify in Ireland for the third consecutive year in 2025, the Swedish audio platform announced today, as it unveiled a tranche of statistics. This year it told users their \u201clistening age\u201d, tried to pinpoint their favourite genres and identified their most \u201crepeat-heavy day\u201d.<\/p>\n

Swift \u2013 who released her 13th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>, in October \u2013 was also the top artist in her native US. Globally, however, she was dethroned by the only other real contender for this crown in recent years, rapper and singer Bad Bunny.<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican artist was also the number one global artist on Spotify from 2020 to 2022, before Swift took over in 2023 and 2024 as she embarked on her record-breaking Eras tour.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny makes no appearance in this year\u2019s Irish top five, which is rounded out by Zach Bryan<\/a>, Kingfishr, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> and Drake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most-streamed song on Spotify in Ireland was Kingfishr\u2019s folk hit Killeagh, which came out ahead of Alex Warren\u2019s Ordinary and Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Irish folk band Amble, the sixth biggest artist on Spotify in Ireland this year, had the most streamed album with Reverie, their debut, which was released in May.<\/p>\n

Showing the power of enduring favourites, Noah Kahan\u2019s 2022 album Stick Season was in second place, ahead of Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s 2024 album Short n\u2019 Sweet in third.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0R\u00f3is\u00edn Ingle: I\u2019m not ashamed to admit I have a serious parasocial relationship with Taylor SwiftOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Globally, the top song was the heartfelt duet Die with a Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, while the top album was Bad Bunny\u2019s DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1s FOToS.<\/p>\n

The top podcast globally on Spotify was The Joe Rogan Experience. In Ireland, the American was beaten by both The 2 Johnnies Podcast and The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett. The top Irish audiobook was Deadly Silence by Jacqueline Connolly, while the top global audiobook was Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.<\/p>\n

This is the 11th time that Spotify has released a personalised rundown of the year to its users, with past features including telling people their \u201caudio aura\u201d and \u201csound town\u201d, or place in the world where listening habits are most similar to theirs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAge is just a number. So don\u2019t take this personally,\u201d it cautioned this year before telling users their \u201clistening age\u201d.<\/p>\n

If, for example, \u201cyou listen to mostly new music\u201d and \u201cyour taste is trending\u201d, you might happily be informed your listening age is 17, despite your actual ears being 46.<\/p>\n

Although Apple Music has a similar annual feature called Replay and Google-owned YouTube has introduced a new one this year called Recap, Spotify Wrapped attracts the most anticipation and attention on social media.<\/p>\n

The company remains the market leader in music streaming, with 696 million monthly active users, including 276 million premium subscribers who pay to access the service, and it says music fans view Wrapped as a \u201ccultural report card\u201d of their year.<\/p>\n

Spotify, which encourages users to share \u201cstories\u201d from their Wrapped, typically includes a dollop of dry humour in its annual summaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaste like yours can\u2019t be defined,\u201d it ventures this year. \u201cBut let\u2019s try anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOh hey, so if this is popping up on your phone, then chances are you listened to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21593,61,60,7241,43,1834,14735,6543,44731],"class_list":{"0":"post-173132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-chappell-roan","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-laura-slattery","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","14":"tag-spotify","15":"tag-taylor-swift","16":"tag-zach-bryan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}