After three consecutive years of reign, Taylor Swift has managed to dethrone Bad Bunny like themost listened to artist in the world on Spotifythe largest streaming audio platform, but not in Spain, where the Puerto Rican is still clinging to number 1.

The silver medal is not his here either, but Quevedowhich thus becomes not only the Spanish artist most listened to in his own countrybut also in the rest of the world, as reported this Wednesday by the Swedish company. It is not surprising, considering that three of his songs are among the most successfulespecially ‘Playa del Inglés’, which was the most played in 2023, as well as ‘Columbia’, which appears in third place, behind ‘Yandel 150’, by Yandel and Feid.

In eighth position is another cut of his authorship, ‘Punto G’. “I am very grateful to the people who listen to me and he likes my music, which is what makes me up there. It has been a very complete year, with my first album and many collaborations that have made me have a lot of fun making music,” Quevedo said in statements collected by Spotify.

Top artists 2023 in Spain: no trace of Taylor Swift

The list of most successful songs in Spain is completed by: in fourth place, ‘The meringue’, by Marshmello with Manuel Turizo; ‘La Bachata’, by Manuel Turizo, in fifth; Shakira with ‘Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53’ is sixth; ‘Lala’by Myke Towers, seventh; ‘Kiss’, by Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro, eighth; and ‘Night’by Vicco, tenth.

A symbol of the uniqueness of this country in terms of its listeners is that Taylor Swift is not even among the ten artists with the most views, a list filled with figures from Latin urban music. In this order, they are: Feid, Myke Towers, Rauw Alejandro, Anuel AA, Mora, Eladio Carrión, Karol G and Bizarrap. If the reproduction data of the most successful female artists in the country are separated, Swift appears in fifth position, behind the aforementioned Karol G (first), Shakira (second), Rosalía (third) and Aitana (fourth).

Top artists 2023 Global

These Spotify Spain lists are very different in their results from those of global hits, where Taylor Swift yes reigns with a total of 26 billion listeners ahead of Puerto Rican Bad Bunny. It should be noted that the author of ‘Midnights’ has also been chosen in 2023 as the ‘Artist of the Year’ by another important audio platform such as Apple Music, after having managed to get 65 of her songs to reach the global ‘Top 100’, more than any other figure in music.

Regarding Spotify, they complete the positions of honor: the Canadian The Weeknd, in third place; his compatriot Drake in the room and, what is even more curious, the Mexican climbs up to the fifth Featherweight as one of the main bastions of the rise of regional Mexican music.

It is not the only triumph for this genre, since the song ‘She Baila Sola’ that this artist performs together with his compatriots from Eslabón Armado is the fifth most listened to song of the year around the world. The classification of most listened to songs, which opens ‘Flowers’ by Miley Cyrus (with 1.6 billion views since its launch in January of this year), complete it ‘Kill Bill’ by the also American Sza, ‘As it Was’ by the British Harry Styles(which sneaks into this classification for the second year, after being the most listened to of 2022) and ‘Seven’, by South Korean and former member of BTS Jung Kook, fourth.