Spotify’s highest earning songs mapped globally

• Experts plotted the world’s highest-earning Spotify songs in a study that might surprise you
• The Killers’ hit ‘Mr. Brightside’ is the UK’s biggest grosser with over £1 million in royalties.
• Meanwhile, The Weekend’s hit “Blinding Lights” topped the charts in ten countries.

Experts have revealed the world’s highest-earning Spotify songs in a study that might surprise you.

Lewis Capaldi, The Killers, and Lady Gaga are among the many artists who have taken Spotify by storm, according to research.

According to NetCredit, ‘Mr. Brightside’ is the UK’s biggest earner, with The Killers earning over £1 million ($1,254,087) in royalties for the 2003 classic.

Meanwhile, Scottish pop star Capaldi took the lead. Ireland wins $160,403 (£128,234) for his ballad ‘Someone You Loved’, Post Malone The price of a sunflower in the United States is $4,507,241 (£3,603,313).

Post Malone’s Spider-Man soundtrack made more money than any other song on Spotify, and The Weekend’s Blinding Lights topped the charts in 10 countries.

NetCredit said:

“Whereas enjoying music used to mean flipping through stacks of CDs and paying (and waiting) for downloads, Spotify makes 100 million music available at the push of a button. provide the track.

“But the world’s most popular streaming service can’t access these songs for free.In 2021 alone, Spotify paid the music industry $7 billion in royalties.”

Big names like Avicii have also hit big records in Sweden and are now on Spotify. $653,671 (£522,577) and James Arthur swept Singapore at $162,162 (£129,640).

Conversely, Tom Odell’s 2013 hit “Another Love” was the highest-grossing song in Saudi Arabia, earning $35,287 (£28,210), while Lady Gaga’s “The Shallow” earned $10,000. It beat Iceland at $6,904 (£13,513).

Nevertheless, when grouped by genre, the results often looked quite different. Rock, hip hop, latin and electronic dance music (EDM).

To calculate this, the researchers considered streaming data for chart hits in addition to Spotify’s pay-per-stream rates. Quave.

be understood as Artists earn approximately US$0.005 (equivalent to £0.004) each time their songs are streamed on Spotify.

bestselling sweater weatherr by The Neighborhood were top rock earners not only in the United States, but also in Poland and Romania.

But Brightside again topped the charts as the UK’s highest-grossing rock hit, while also topping the charts in Australia and Ireland.

In the hip-hop category, Drake’s One Dance hit topped the charts in the UK and 13 other countries.

The papers were mainly from South and Central American countries such as Chile, Argentina, Honduras and Guatemala.

In the United States, Juice WRLD’s Lucid Dreams hit the hip-hop box office charts with $4,371,446 (£3,494,752), while Post Malone’s rock star conquered Ireland and Canada.

In terms of EDM, SAINt JHN’s Roses (Imanbek Remix) was the highest-grossing of the 14 countries, but was the highest-grossing in Canada at $369,492 (£295,390).

In the UK and Ireland, it was Joel Corry’s hit ‘Head & Heart’ that grossed $651,519 (£520,856) and $90,619 (£72,445) in their respective countries.

Elton John’s Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) also topped 12 other countries, but still took home $602,910 (£481,996) in Mexico.

Although the results were highly variable across previous categories, it can be argued that Latin genres saw more uniform results.

Luis Fonsi’s Despacito took the world by storm, topping the charts in 17 countries, including the UK, where it earned $529,885 (£423,616).

At its peak, the pop track topped the charts in 47 countries, and its music video was the second most-watched song on YouTube of all time.

In 19 other countries, Farruko’s Pepas was the highest-earning song, and the other nine were united by their love for Balvin’s 2019 hit LA CANCIÓN.

MailOnline reached out to Spotify for comment.

The research comes less than a month after Spotify released its new Niches playlist tool.

“Angry Whistling” and “Sad Cooking” are among tens of thousands of new playlists you can create thanks to the music platform’s new Niche Mixes Maker.

Whatever the case, Spotify claims that the tool will allow you to create playlists filled with both songs you already know and other songs that match all kinds of moods.

Spotify said: ‘don’t be shy. Be creative. The more mixes you search, the more music you discover.