It’s that time of year again, when Spotify listeners flock to the app to pore over their most-streamed songs and top artists.
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It’s that time of year again, when Spotify listeners flock to the app to pore over their most-streamed songs and top artists. The music streamer released Spotify Wrapped on Wednesday, its annual report featuring personalized roundups of top songs, artists, genres, and podcasts, as well as wider analyses of trends across its millions of listeners. While findings like the world’s most-streamed artists — which included Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and BTS in 2021 — may be unsurprising, other trends are raising an eyebrow or two. From songs for plants to alien-inspired playlists, here are some of the most bizarre music trends this year, based on findings from Spotify. After sea shanties went viral on TikTok earlier this year, Spotify listeners were quick to compile playlists with their favorite tunes — compiling more than 187,000 sea shanty-related playlists, to be exact. The shanty “Wellerman,” by British folk musical group, The Longest Johns, was one of the most popular shanties added by listeners, according to Spotify. “Sea shanty Tok” quickly became a massive trend online as TikTok users around the world starting singing the seafaring songs in videos.
