Global music streams top one trillion in Q1 2023, a new record speed according to Luminate, the entertainment data and insights company that powers Billboard Charts. The company revealed that global music on-demand audio streams crossed the one trillion mark on the 31st March 2023, marking 2023 as the first year for that milestone to be reached in just three months. The news follows Luminate’s 2022 Year-End Report data that showed a +22.6% growth in on-demand audio streams over 2021.
Top 5 most streamed songs globally in 2023 so far
- Miley Cyrus – “Flowers” (1.16 Bn on-demand global audio streams in 2023 so far)
- SZA – “Kill Bill” (885 million on-demand global audio streams in 2023 so far)
- The Weeknd – “Die For You” (629 million on-demand global audio streams in 2023 so far)
- Bizzarap & Shakira – “BZRP Music Sessions #53” (627 million on-demand global audio streams in 2023 so far)
- Rema & Selena Gomez – “Calm Down“ (601 million on-demand global audio streams in 2023 so far)
To put 1 trillion streams into perspective, Luminate have calculated that music listeners would have collectively spent 960,000 years streaming music in 2023 so far.
Luminate is an entertainment data and insights company, providing access to objective, and trustworthy information across music, film and television, with data compiled from hundreds of verified sources. Today, the company maintains its more than 30-year legacy of accurate storytelling by powering the iconic Billboard music charts, while also acting as the premiere database for the television and film industries.
