What is the best rated song on Spotify and which Argentine conquered the top 10

New technologies have revolutionized the music industry, which is now battling on digital playback platforms, with Spotify leading the market. In this new world Ed Sheeran is the king: your song “Shape of You” (from disk% (Deluxe), 2017) was played 2,724,013,193 times in that application, so the profit generated there is US $ 13,347,665 (taking US $ 0.0049 per listen).

Yes OK the 8 “most expensive” songs are English-speaking, In the top 10 of this international ranking there are two songs in Spanish. On the one hand, it is “Criminal”, of the Dominican singer Natti Natasha and from the Puerto Rican Ozuna, which ranks 9th. Cordoba also appears Paulo London, who reached 10th place. Some 627,517,660 times someone somewhere in the world gave him play to the song “Adam and Eve” (single, 2018) of the Argentine artist most listened to globally in 2018 and 2019, so that single generated a profit of US $ 3,074,837.

New rule number 1: Today you no longer need to release an album with 10 or 12 songs to enter the competition, but each song is used as a self-sufficient unit. This made many artists release singles and EPs (acronym that in English means “extended play” and translated means “extended duration”) which is an intermediate format between a acronyms and an album, which usually do not have more than 6 songs.

New rule number 2: The songs should no longer be copied onto a CD for each person to compile (what an old term!), But the real wish is that the song be selected to integrate any of the playlists More popular. Entering these places is even more important, for some artists, than having their work reproduced on the radio. Some call it “the democratization” of music.

New rule number 3: Why is it important to enter these listings? A new concept emerged, “the viralization” of music. It could be said that in the old days the first viral topic on the Internet was “El Sensei”, from Las Pastillas del Abuelo, which exploded because it was available for those who wanted to download it for free. Today the path to that sudden popularity is given from the possibility of sharing a song and making it interact with other underworlds, such as that of social networks. Thus, traveling and accumulating kilometers in the republic of the Internet, an artist can go from anonymity to fame. And even transcend borders.

New rule number 4: The first few seconds are the key. For this reason, when composing, some musicians no longer wait for the first two verses to pass for their song to “explode”, but the start is usually more powerful than before.

The Spanish site Condé Nast Traveler conducted a study taking the data provided by the site Kworb, which analyzes figures from the entire music industry. From there, he made the ranking of the most listened to songs and multiplied the amount of reproduction by US $ 0.0049, which -he pointed out- is the value that Digital Music News He says he charges an artist for each listen.

This is how he built the top 10 of the best rated songs on Spotify. On the podium, Ed Sheeran is accompanied: the American Post Malone and the british rapper 21 Savage with its version in featuring from “Rockstar” (del álbum Beerbongs & Bentleys, 2018, with 2,124,372,156 views and a profit of US $ 10,409,424) and the Australian singer Tones and I with “Dance Monkey” (single, 2019).

4. The Canadian Drake with “God’s Plan” (Scorpion, 2018): 1,695,958,873 views and US $ 8,310,198

5. The British-Norwegian DJ Alan Walker with “Faded” (from EP Faded, 2015), the song that bears the voice of the singer -also Norwegian- Iselin Løken Solheim: 1,350,560,280 views and US $ 6,617,745

6. The Swedish DJ Avicii with “Wake me up” (True, 2013), sung by American Aloe Blacc: 1,227,990,897 views and US $ 6,017,155

7. The Danish pop-soul band Lukas Graham with “7 Years” (Lukas Graham, 2016): 1,201,787,625 views and US $ 5,888,759

8. The DJs Dynoro (Lithuania) and Gigi D’Agostino (Italy) with its version of “In My Mind” (single, 2018), the song by the Australians Ivan Gough and the duo Feenixpawl (Aden Forte and Josh Soon), where the Anglo-Australian Georgi Kay sings: 962,677,266 reproductions and US $ 4,717,119.

9. Natti Natasha Y Ozuna with “Criminal” (single, 2017): 652,964,683 views and US $ 3,199,527

10. Paulo London with “Adam and Eve” (single, 2018): 627,517,660 views and US $ 3,074,837

The Cordoba Paulo London had a dizzying career in the music industry. The rapper / rapper began uploading songs to Spotify in 2017 (the first was “Confiado & Tranquilo”) and the following year he won the gold medal by becoming the most listened to Argentine artist on Spotify. The following year, he released his first (and only) album, Homerun, and kept the record.

Thus, on this platform it has 8,430,637 monthly listeners. The largest soccer stadium in the world, Rungrado May Day (in Pyongyang, North Korea), has a capacity for about 114,000 people. So, if everyone who listens to it on the app were to see it, it would fill it up 74 times in just one month.

Londra conquered this audience with only 2 years in the ring, in which he also had the luxury of collaborating with artists of the stature of Ed Sheeran (“Nothing on you”), the American Becky G (“When I kissed you”) and the Colombian band Piso 21 (“I love you”).

In full expansion, and LA NACION,” class=”com-link” data-reactroot=””>tal como explicó THE NATION, in 2020 he stopped making music, after a conflict with the Colombian music producer Ovy On The Drums (Daniel Oviedo) and the Puerto Rican Christ (Cristian Salazar). The successful 21-year-old artist speaks of “betrayal,” which led to Londa’s resignation from the label. Big Ligas.

In a letter, the man from Córdoba explained that “he always shouted ‘Big Leagues’ and ‘Kristo y Ovy’ in all his songs because they asked him to do so” and because of the confidence he had in that duo. In the document, he said that the beginning of the end of the bond occurred after they made him sign a contract on a trip to Colombia, in 2017, alone and without explaining what it was about. According to him, they had told him that it would be for a video that would be uploaded to the networks, although he later discovered that there was a clause copyright that he took rights to some of his songs.

So when he was offered to make a record with Warner Music and the singer refused, the fight escalated. Attorney Matt Greenberg sent him and his father an intimidation letter. “He showed us the true face of the contract I signed with Ovy and Kristo, where he was not a true partner / artist. Matt Greenberg’s letter said that I could be harmed for anything that causes the company to lose, and that I should sign if it could not have serious financial consequences. At that moment, I realized that we were not a team ”.

This attitude, the handling that Ovy and Kristo had with artists interested in Cordoba (like Ed Sheeran) and the way they treated him (“They always wanted to appear in the videos, they always told me what to say, I couldn’t decide anything”) made the bond break and that today they are faced in the judicial plane, where the royalties of some of their subjects are disputed.

Last year before this legal conflict and his flamanete paternity, Londra was silent, but now it is expected that he will return to the ring since in December the clause of the contract that took away the rights on some of his issues expired. Who knows, with the new stage of this artist, he might break some record in the industry again.

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