Apple Music has today unveiled the complete list of the most streamed songs on the platform in history, with a bunch of Aussie names cracking the top 500.
ICYMI, Apple Music has been gradually counting down its most-played songs in honour of the platform’s ten-year anniversary, with the remaining top 10 tracks revealed today to complete the list.
In a slice of homegrown pride, two Aussie artists managed to crack the top 20, namely Tones and I at number 16 with a little song by the name of “Dance Monkey”. Heard of it?
The Victorian singer was bested just slightly by The Kid Laroi, whose Justin Bieber-assisted hit “STAY” placed 14th on Apple Music’s most-streamed of the decade.
Australia still fared well outside of the top 20, with Masked Wolf’s track “Astronaut In The Ocean” landing at number 465 and Tame Impala just ahead with “The Less I Know The Better” at 463.
Elsewhere, Sia did her country proud with both “Chandelier” and “Cheap Thrills” cracking the list, while Gotye and Kimbra scored a spot with “Somebody That I Used To Know”.
The Aussie pool was rounded-out by 5 Seconds Of Summer (for “Youngblood”), Dean Lewis (for “Be Alright”), Vance Joy (for “Riptide”) and AC/DC (for both “Back In Black” and “Thunderstruck” — rock on!).
Outside of Australia, Apple Music’s list was topped by Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You”, which I still can’t get out of my head no matter how hard I try, while The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” landed in second place.
Three Drake songs, two Post Malone songs and another Sheeran joint (“Perfect”) rounded out the top five. Criminally only one woman was represented in the top 10 — Billie Eilish’s “bad guy”.
On that point, pop girlie stans needn’t fret too much, with Taylor Swift scoring a whopping 14 entries on the list followed by Rihanna, Eilish, SZA, Cardi B and Ariana Grande.
Anyway, I’m off to wash my ears out with soap in the hope it’ll rid “Shape of You” from my brain once and for all.
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