IFPI’s Top 10 Global Artists, Singles and Albums Chart for 2022

[storminthedark]

Top 20 Songs:

1. As It Was - Harry Styles: 2.28bn

2. Heat Waves - Glass Animals: 1.75bn

3. STAY - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber 1.74bn

4. Cold Heart - Elton John & Dua Lipa 

5. Save Your Tears - The Weeknd

6. Enemy - Imagine Dragons

7. Shivers - Ed Sheeran

8. abcdefu - GAYLE

9. Me Porto Bonito - Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone 

10. Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran

11. Tití Me Preguntó - Bad Bunny

12. Levitating - Dua Lipa (ft. DaBaby)

13. Easy On Me - Adele

14. Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

15. INDUSTRY BABY - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow

16. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush

17. We Don’t Talk About Bruno - Encanto Cast

18. Pepas - Farruko

19. First Class - Jack Harlow

20. PROVENZA - Karol G

(Source)

 

Top 20 Albums:

01. Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti

02. Taylor Swift – Midnights

03. Harry Styles – Harry’s House

04. BTS – Proof

05. Encanto Cast – Encanto OST

06. Stray Kids – MAXIDENT

07. SEVENTEEN – Face the Sun

08. BLACKPINK – BORN PINK

09. Olivia Rodrigo – SOUR

10. Ed Sheeran – =

11. ENHYPHEN – MANIFESTO: DAY 1

12. Morgan Wallen – Dangerous: The Double Album

13. Doja Cat – Planet Her

14. Stray Kids – ODDINARY

15. The Weeknd – Dawn FM

16. TOMORROW X TOGETHER – minisode 2: Thursday’s Child

17. Beyoncé – RENAISSANCE

18. SEVENTEEN – SECTOR 17

19. The Kid LAROI – F*CK LOVE (Mix Tape)

20. Drake – Certified Lover Boy

(Source)

 

Top 20 Artists:

1 Taylor Swift
2 BTS
3 Drake
4 Bad Bunny
5 The Weeknd
6 Seventeen
7 Stray Kids 
8 Harry Styles
9 Jay Chou
10 Ed Sheeran
11 Eminem
12 Kanye West
13 YoungBoy Never Broke Again
14 Kendrick Lamar
15 Lil Baby
16 Billie Eilish
17 Post Malone
18 Juice Wrld
19 The Beatles
20 Imagine Dragons

(Source)

Edited February 24, 2023 by storminthedark

[byzantium]

The number 1 single will be As It Was

the Number 1 Album will be Midnights

the Number 1 Artist will be Taylor Swift.

 

These are my predictions.

[Icarus]

6 minutes ago, byzantium said:

the Number 1 Album will be Midnights

Hmm with only a few months? Surely 30 or Harry’s House or Un Verano Sin Ti will take it 

Edited February 15, 2023 by Icarus

[TheArgonaut]

8 minutes ago, Icarus said:

Hmm with only a few months? Surely 30 or Harry’s House or Un Verano Sin Ti will take it 

The have two charts for albums now. So I think Midnights will def take the pure sales list.

[Green]

36 minutes ago, Icarus said:

Hmm with only a few months? Surely 30 or Harry’s House or Un Verano Sin Ti will take it 

 

30 was already #1 in the 2021 chart

 

Midnights will be #1 for 2022

[UnusualBoy]

Hopefully Taylor takes the album and the artist chart. AIW has the song one on lock.

[Green]

28 minutes ago, TheArgonaut said:

The have two charts for albums now. So I think Midnights will def take the pure sales list.

 

It will take the SPS chart too for sure

 

Harry will be #2

 

Not sure about Bad Bunny because most of his points are from streams and IFPI gives more weight to pure sales. That's why he never has made the IFPI top 10 artists.

[Hector]

Luminate's Top Global Songs Of 2022 based on audio streaming:

 

1 Harry Styles "As It Was" 2.312 billion

2 Glass Animals "Heat Waves" 1.871 billion

3 The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber "Stay" 1.520 billion

4 Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone "Me Porto Bonito" 1.476 billion

5 Bad Bunny "Titi Me Pregunto" 1.360 billion

6 Imagine Dragons X JID "Enemy" 1.341 billion

7 Elton John & Dua Lipa "Cold Heart" 1.337 billion

8 The Weeknd "Save Your Tears" 1.282 billion

9 Gayle "abcdefu" 1.245 billion

10 Ed Sheeran "Shivers" 1.232 billion

 

Expect some difference in positions with video streaming & downloads incorporated. Although they also said that Coldplay's "Hymn For The Weekend" was the most streamed song of the year globally overall  (with audio & user generated content video streams included).

 

As mentioned above, Midnights will be #1 on the overall album chart as it did more than 6 million album equivalents in 2022 according to Universal: https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/taylor-swift-achieves-more-than-6-million-global-units-for-midnights-and-37-billion-total-streams-in-2022/087168

 

Taylor will be #1 on the artists chart as she did 22.4M album equivalent units overall & 36.6 billion streams in 2022 according to Universal (and I doubt BTS or Bad Bunny will be above her in that regard). 

Edited February 15, 2023 by Hector

[Moonlight Nation]

42 minutes ago, Hector said:

Luminate's Top Global Songs Of 2022 based on audio streaming:

 

1 Harry Styles "As It Was" 2.312 billion

2 Glass Animals "Heat Waves" 1.871 billion

3 The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber "Stay" 1.520 billion

4 Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone "Me Porto Bonito" 1.476 billion

5 Bad Bunny "Titi Me Pregunto" 1.360 billion

6 Imagine Dragons X JID "Enemy" 1.341 billion

7 Elton John & Dua Lipa "Cold Heart" 1.337 billion

8 The Weeknd "Save Your Tears" 1.282 billion

9 Gayle "abcdefu" 1.245 billion

10 Ed Sheeran "Shivers" 1.232 billion

 

I swear if "Save Your Tears" still makes the top 10 after topping last year's list 

 

 

Justice for "Dawn FM", though. 

[Feanor]

Artist: BTS

Song: "As It Was"
Album (SPS): Proof'
Album (Sales): 'Proof'
Album (Vinyl): 'Midnights'

 

… will be the #1s imo.

[Green]

32 minutes ago, Feanor said:

Artist: BTS

Song: "As It Was"
Album (SPS): Proof'
Album (Sales): 'Proof'
Album (Vinyl): 'Midnights'

 

… will be the #1s imo.

 

Proof? How? Did it sell 6 million in Asia?   

[Feanor]

1 minute ago, Green said:

 

Proof? How? Did it sell 6 million in Asia?   

It had ~4.5M global shipments in 2022, which is about as much as '30' had in 2021 and that was #1.

 

Also depending on how their label report the streams, a lot of BTS' catalog streams could count for it too.

On Spotify for example it's constantly charting in the top 10 on their albums chart, despite being a compilation album.

[byzantium]

1 hour ago, Icarus said:

Hmm with only a few months? Surely 30 or Harry’s House or Un Verano Sin Ti will take it 

If 30 was the number 1 of 2021, Midnights will definitely be the number 1 of 2022.  Didn’t it sell about 3m units in its first week worldwide?  

[Hector]

IT BEGINS TOMORROW  

 

 

Top 5 prediction:

 

01 Taylor

02 BTS

03 Bad Bunny

04 Harry Styles

05 Ed Sheeran

[Hector]

Expect to see a good amount of K-Pop acts in the overall top 20 artists list due to strong album sales:

 

BTS may be taking a break but it’s still HYBE’s sales leader in album-loving Korea. Four HYBE artists were in the top 10 of Korea’s year-end album tally: BTS was No. 1 with 5.75 million units, Seventeen was No. 3 with 5.56 million units, Tomorrow X Together was No. 5 with 2.78 million units and ENHYPEN was No. 8 with 2.64 million units. Le Sserafim was the No. 15 artist with 1.29 million units. 

 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/hybe-2022-results-sm-entertainment-investment/

[Feanor]

14 hours ago, Hector said:

Expect to see a good amount of K-Pop acts in the overall top 20 artists list due to strong album sales:

 

BTS may be taking a break but it’s still HYBE’s sales leader in album-loving Korea. Four HYBE artists were in the top 10 of Korea’s year-end album tally: BTS was No. 1 with 5.75 million units, Seventeen was No. 3 with 5.56 million units, Tomorrow X Together was No. 5 with 2.78 million units and ENHYPEN was No. 8 with 2.64 million units. Le Sserafim was the No. 15 artist with 1.29 million units. 

 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/hybe-2022-results-sm-entertainment-investment/

Yes, according to Korea's 2022 year-end Circle Chart, 4 different K-Pop acts had album shipments of over 4M, and this number doesn't include additional sales from Japan and the US etc.

I expect 3-4 of the acts in the top 10 to be K-pop acts, because of how much pure sales seem to weigh on IFPI's chart.

[Green]

55 minutes ago, Feanor said:

Yes, according to Korea's 2022 year-end Circle Chart, 4 different K-Pop acts had album shipments of over 4M, and this number doesn't include additional sales from Japan and the US etc.

I expect 3-4 of the acts in the top 10 to be K-pop acts, because of how much pure sales seem to weigh on IFPI's chart.

 

oh well  

 

When Bad Bunny charts lower than all those random k-pop acts just because his pure sales are almost 0   

[storminthedark]

10. Ed Sheeran

 

[Green]

Are the 3 charts coming today? or just the Artists chart?

[FolkLover1989]

4 minutes ago, Green said:

Are the 3 charts coming today? or just the Artists chart?

Just artist today

[storminthedark]

9. Jay Chou

[Green]

[FolkLover1989]

 

 

Yeah BTS can be number 1. Let's see

[Hector]

Chinese figures are added so I think Taylor will be #1. Unless BTS' pure sales units outweigh Taylor's overall consumption. 

[Feanor]

BTS is also massive in China iirc, so this can also be in favor of them.