{"id":2423428,"date":"2026-05-19T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2423428"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:45:33","slug":"youtube-and-spotify-streaming-data-reveals-britains-music-tastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/youtube-and-spotify-streaming-data-reveals-britains-music-tastes\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube and Spotify streaming data reveals Britain’s music tastes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drake <\/b>is the most-played artist on Spotify in Birmingham, and it is the only place outside London to also have his rival Kendrick Lamar<\/b> in its top five.<\/p>\n

Brummie fans are the most devoted to US R&B singer Chris Brown<\/b> – it’s the only place to put him in its top 10 on Spotify (at nine), and also gives him his highest YouTube placing (at eight).<\/p>\n

D-Block Europe<\/b> are big in Birmingham, too – the London-based hip-hop duo are second only to Eminem <\/b>on the list of the year’s most-played artists on YouTube, and it’s also the only city to have them in its Spotify top 20 (at 15).<\/p>\n

Birmingham’s most played artists on Spotify:<\/p>\n

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  1. \n

    Drake<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    Taylor Swift<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    The Weeknd<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    Sabrina Carpenter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    Kendrick Lamar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    Kanye West<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    Rihanna<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. \n

    Billie Eilish<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  9. \n

    Chris Brown<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  10. \n

    SZA<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Birmingham’s most played artists on YouTube:<\/p>\n

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    1. \n

      Eminem<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. \n

      D-Block Europe<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. \n

      Alka Yagnik<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. \n

      Ed Sheeran<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    5. \n

      Drake<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    6. \n

      Karan Aujla<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    7. \n

      Arijit Singh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    8. \n

      Chris Brown<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    9. \n

      KPop Demon Hunters cast<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    10. \n

      Rihanna<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

      Surprise packages:<\/b><\/i> A string of Indian singers are bigger than many Western superstars on YouTube in Birmingham – Alka Yagnik<\/b> was the third most popular act of 2025 overall with more than 7.5 million views in the city (above Ed Sheeran<\/b> and Drake<\/b>).<\/p>\n

      Shake It To The Max by Ghanaian singer Moliy <\/b>and Jamaican producer Silent Addy <\/b>was also massive – it was the third most viewed track of the year on YouTube, higher than in any of the other featured locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

      \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

      \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Drake is the most-played artist on Spotify in Birmingham, and it is the only place outside London to also have his rival Kendrick Lamar in its top five. Brummie fans are the most devoted to US R&B singer Chris Brown – it’s the only place to put him in its top 10 on Spotify (at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2423429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/YouTube-and-Spotify-streaming-data-reveals-Britains-music-tastes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423430,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423428\/revisions\/2423430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2423429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}