December is about compilations. In all the arts there are always productions that stand out from the rest of the market. In the case of the music industry, whether by fame or popularity of the artist, or by demonstrating a catchy as well as innovative style and rhythm, there are songs that permeate the audience’s unconscious and it’s impossible to get rid of them -to the point of hating them-.
Spotify has managed to win over audiences thanks to its ‘Spotify Wrapped’, an initiative that allows users of the application to interact with their most listened to artists and songs and then share them across their networks. If we scroll through their greatest hits lists, both global and domestic, there are some titles that grow exponentially and remain in the top fifty listener favorites for weeks. The number one position in the world was occupied for most of the summer by an artist whose success had begun to reap in Spain a few months earlier with the song ‘Cayó la Noche Remix’. Quevedo broke records just days after launching his collaboration with Argentinian music producer Bizarrap. your song, “Bizarre Music Sessions #52” -popularly known as ‘Stay’, it has passed three consecutive weeks in that world top 1. Although it also broke another less famous record: It is the best-selling song in the same year in Spain in all of history -both physical and digital- with over 600,000 units.
Despite being the song of the summer for many, it wasn’t shortlisted to be among them The 100 best songs of 2022 for the magazine’rolling stone’. Media specialized in music make this list after collecting the votes cast by critics, composers, artists, etc. This year, more than established names have made their way once again: Beyonce, Pharrell, Carly Rae Jepsen or Taylor Swift. Other young people who have been reaping the success of urban sounds for years have had their representation among these hundred, as is the case of the Colombian Karol G -together with Becky G in ‘Mamiii’- or Bad bunnywith three songs on the list: ‘Ojitos Lindos’, ‘X última vez’ -with Daddy Yankee’ and, as number one of the list, ‘Tweety asked me.
That first place is followed by Beyonce -‘Cuff it’-, Steve Lacy -‘Bad Habit’-, Taylor Swift -‘Karma’- and, in fifth place, the Catalan Rosalia. The singer, who in recent months has toured the world as part of her ‘tourMotomami World Tour’managed to break records with ‘despechá’, the song that occupies this place, even before it hit the market. As the page describes, “it’s the ignited energy in her voice that brings the summer song closer to the hallowed ground to which the artist aspires.”
It’s not the only one on the list. At number 70, a Valencian seemed to surprise those responsible for drafting the list. The “fragile voice pouring over a muffled and slightly strange arrangement” by Guitarricadelafuente he put his “Arabian Nights” at number 70 in the rankings. ‘Rolling Stone’, which recognizes the artist’s career as “promising”, wanted to highlight this song -which is also the first- among all those that make up his debut album, ‘La Cantera’.
