The digital music service that gives people access to millions of songs - Spotify, has unleashed its annual Year in Music top lists, seeing Drake (the Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and actor) as having a commanding influence without even releasing an album.
Drake, who was first recognized for his character as Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation, topped the Global Artist list. Shout outs to a prolific year in terms of mixtapes, releasing the barnstorming 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' and then just months later, the collaboration of the American hip hop recording artist Future, for the song 'What A Time To Be Alive.'
Over 75 million listeners took pleasure in the 20 billion hours of music on the streaming service Spotify in the last 12 months, with more than 2 billion playlists created.
The singer-songwriter and occasional actor - Ed Sheeran, gets hold of the title of most streamed artist of all time and most streamed UK artist of the year, with more than 3 billion streams to Sheeran to date. The artist behind the 'Thinking Out Loud' hit song, takes the top slot from the American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor - Eminem.
Drake, with over 1.8 billion streams on Spotify, became the world's most streamed artist of 2015, while the "Bitch Better Have My Money" singer - Rihanna, is the most streamed female artist of the year.
Justin Bieber, who was one of the top ten most powerful celebrities in the world, earned the most streams artist in a single day, where on the 13th of November, Bieber scored 36 million, before smashing the record for the most album streams in a single week with over 205 million streams for his album - Purpose.
In addition, "Lean On" by the electronic music group Major Lazer ft. MO and DJ Snake was the most streamed song of 2015.
