These are the most popular artists on Spotify

By Hard News 11 December 2015

The end of 2015 is near and Spotify launched its new function ‘Year in Music’, which provides you with a neat summary of all the music that you listened to in the past year. On Spotify.com/2015 you can see how much music you have listened to and who were your favorite artists. Spotify will also create a special ‘Play It Forward’ playlist based on your preferences to let you discover new music.

We were curious how the hardstyle artists performed on Spotify in the past year, so we decided to dive into the Year in Music to create a list of artists with the most listeners in 2015. To prevent the list of becoming too long we only chose the artists who had over 50.000 unique listeners that streamed their tracks.

Spotify listeners in 2015
52.000 – Crisis Era
53.000 – Deetox
54.000 – Devin Wild
56.000 – Delete
61.000 – Slim Shore
62.000 – Geck-o
65.000 – Cyber
68.000 – The Machine
69.000 – Phuture Noize
72.000 – Phrantic
73.000 – Sound Rush
74.000 – The Vision
79.000 – Donkey Rollers
81.000 – Chain Reaction
81.000 – Titan
82.000 – Energyzed
82.000 – Josh & Wesz
83.000 – Jack of Sound
84.000 – Omegatypez
86.000 – Alpha²
88.000 – Luna
99.000 – Warface
101.000 – Tatanka
106.000 – Adaro
106.000 – Adrenalize
107.000 – A-lusion
111.000 – Scope DJ
115.000 – Outbreak
117.000 – Neilio
119.000 – Waverider
133.000 – Kronos
133.000 – Deepack
142.000 – E-Force
147.000 – Frequencerz
159.000 – Gunz for Hire
159.000 – Digital Punk
162.000 – The Pitcher
164.000 – B-Front
172.000 – Isaac
179.000 – Crypsis
183.000 – Radical Redemption
196.000 – Tuneboy
205.000 – Endymion
218.000 – Dr. Rude
233.000 – Rebourne
237.000 – Zany
242.000 – Audiofreq
259.000 – Toneshifterz
260.000 – Hard Driver
275.000 – Technoboy
285.000 – Audiotricz
292.000 – Ran-D
292.000 – Max Enforcer
314.000 – The Prophet
324.000 – Psyko Punkz
335.000 – Wasted Penguinz
338.000 – Bass Modulators
348.000 – Da Tweekaz
420.000 – D-Block & S-te-Fan
438.000 – Code Black
472.000 – Atmozfears
534.000 – Frontliner
674.000 – Zatox
1.000.000+ – Coone (54 years)
1.000.000+ – Wildstylez (82 years)
1.000.000+ – Noisecontrollers (89 years)
1.000.000+ – Brennan Heart (100 years)

Unfortunately Spotify limits the details about your amount of listeners once an artist exceeds the one million barrier, but you can however see the total amount of streams translated in years. Coone had 54 years worth of streams, Wildstylez 82, Noisecontrollers 89 and Brennan Heart had a staggering 100 years worth of streams in the past year. This makes it pretty obvious that Brennan Heart is the #1 of 2015.

It’s incredible if you imagine that Brennan Heart alone has had 100 years worth of streams in the past year on Spotify. 100 years equals 36.524 days, 876.581 hours and an unbelievable 52.594.875 minutes! It seems like hardstyle is more alive than ever! No wonder that Spotify advertising becomes more popular for Hardstyle artists and events each year. Let’s hope it will be even more next year.