Spotify Wrapped 2023: the big winners and losers of this year's lists

Spotify Wrapped 2023 is here, which means that we all have to put up with seeing the breakdown of our friends’ listening habits splattered across social media for several days.

One good thing to come from Spotify’s end-of-year summary is that it gives us a chance to find out who were the most played artists on the streaming service. Given that Spotify now boasts 576 million yearly listeners, it means that this also serves as a decent indication of the year’s biggest and best-loved acts. 

This year’s top winner, perhaps predictably, is Taylor Swift, who raked in 26.1 billion streams globally. But there are still some surprises, with PinkPantheress’s Boy’s a liar Pt. 2 being the third most streamed song in the UK. The Weeknd’s Starboy also shares the fourth place spot for most streamed album globally – a pretty impressive comeback given the album was released seven years ago.

Of course, there are tons of extra factors to consider when thinking