Spotify Wrapped 2024 Has Spoken: The Most Streamed Song In The UK Probably Isn't What You Think

Last week, we wrote about how Spotify Wrapped’s launch would probably be today (4 December) as it’s called on the first Wednesday of December or the last of November over the past three years. 

Music lovers will know the prophecy has been fulfilled (is that a bit dramatic? Oh well). 

But while you might be looking at your own data this afternoon, you might also wonder what the stats for the nation are. 

We’ve already shared the unexpected most-streamed song of all time on Spotify. So we thought we’d tell you the one that won out in the ears of UK listeners this 2024. 

Let’s do a Spotify Wrapped, wrapped

According to Spotify’s data, the most-streamed song in the UK in 2024 is Noah Kahan’s Stick Season. 

Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso came in second place, meanwhile, with Beautiful Things by Benson Boone sitting in third and Hozier’s Too Sweet in fourth. 

Predictably, the most-streamed album in the UK this year was Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Sabrina Carpenter comes in second on the album stakes too, with Short ‘N’ Sweet reaching second; Noah Kahan’s Stick Season album is in third, and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft comes in fourth. 

Taylor Swift actually appears twice on the album charts in the UK, with 1989 (Taylor’s Version) being the fifth most-streamed album in 2024 too. 

Overall, the stats were:

UK Most-Streamed Artists:

1. Taylor Swift
2. Drake
3. Kanye West
4. Billie Eilish
5. The Weeknd
6. Eminem
7. Sabrina Carpenter
8. Rihanna
9. Travis Scott
10. Noah Kahan

UK Most-Streamed Songs:

1. Stick Season by Noah Kahan
2. Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter
3. Beautiful Things by Benson Boone
4. Too Sweet by Hozier
5. Lose Control by Teddy Swims 
6. BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Billie Eilish
7. Good Luck, Babe! by Chappell Roan
8. A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey
9. Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter
10. Austin (Boots Stop Workin’) by Dasha 

UK Most-Streamed Albums:

1. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY by Taylor Swift 
2. Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter 
3. Stick Season by Noah Kahan
4. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish 
5. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift
6. Fireworks & Rollerblades by Benson Boone
7. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan
8. GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo
9. Lover by Taylor Swift 
10. eternal sunshine by Ariana Grande 

UK Top Podcasts:

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
3. The Rest Is Football
4. The Rest Is Politics
5. The Rest Is History
6. The Louis Theroux Podcast
7. Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
8. The Rest Is Entertainment
9. Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
10. Call Her Daddy

What about the rest of the world?

Those numbers are just for the UK ― you might not be shocked to learn that Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso is number one across the globe this year.

Noah Kahan did not feature at all in the global top five songs, with other places going to Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things in second place and Billie Eilish’s Birds Of A Feather hitting a respectable third. 

Again, we doubt you’ll be astonished to find out that Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology is the world’s most-streamed album worldwide. 

Spotify introduced a Global Top Artist to their Wrapped Day for the first time this year ― it’s gone to none other than Miss Swift. The streaming service has also added an in-app Easter Egg animation feature to her riddle-laden eras.