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

[Papi Juancho]

Disappointing numbers for Harry, he has 2 big consecutive eras with monster hits.

Surprised, Justin, Beyonce, Adele and Blackpink didn't make the chart. 
 

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3 Drake
11 Eminem
12 Kanye West
13 YoungBoy Never Broke Again
14 Kendrick Lamar
15 Lil Baby
17 Post Malone
18 Juice Wrld

how? they aren't big outside North America 

[Sad Serenade]

Taylor global queen 

[Hector]

34 minutes ago, Papi Juancho said:

Disappointing numbers for Harry, he has 2 big consecutive eras with monster hits.

Surprised, Justin, Beyonce, Adele and Blackpink didn't make the chart. 
 

how? they aren't big outside North America 

The unique award is calculated according to an artist’s or group’s worldwide performance across digital and physical music formats during the year, from streams to vinyl, and covers their entire body of work.

 

The IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award and Top 20 chart is the only ranking to accurately measure consumption across all formats (including streaming formats, digital and physical album and singles sales) and all countries. It is weighted based on the relative value of each method of consumption.

 

Rap artists are HUGE on streaming, especially since they have a big back catalogue as they release music very frequently. 

[Armani?]

1 hour ago, Papi Juancho said:

Disappointing numbers for Harry, he has 2 big consecutive eras with monster hits.

Surprised, Justin, Beyonce, Adele and Blackpink didn't make the chart. 
 

how? they aren't big outside North America 

The way you just included every rap artist

 

None of them are local besides NBA Youngboy who's #s are so huge it doesnt matter

[Papi Juancho]

Just now, Armani? said:

The way you just included every rap artist

 

None of them are local besides NBA Youngboy who's #s are so huge it doesnt matter

Didn't mean to be disrespectful, sorry. Of course they're not local, but their numbers aren't bigger than Beyonce's, Adele's, or Justin's outside of the US. 

[Hector]

The top 20 artists list was based on revenue (how much money earned):

 

And then the crucial bit: “It is weighted based on the relative value of each method of consumption.”

 

What that means in practice: the IFPI’s Top 20 list reveals, in order, the artists who generated the most money last year globally across streaming, download, and physical record sales (combined) in 2022.

 

So how come Bad Bunny is down at No.4 on the IFPI’s money-generating list of global artists, behind Swift (No.1), BTS (No.2), and Drake (No.3)?

 

There are a few obvious factors:

1. The aforementioned Top 3 artists all have significant catalog history on mainstream pop charts around the world (especially, in the US) over the past decade. This means they all have a vast volume of catalog (and catalog listening) on streaming services that would have only been uplifted by their most recent releases. Midnights is Swift’s tenth studio album to date, for example, and her ninth US No.1 album. Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, by contrast, is only the Puerto Rican artist’s second Billboard 200 No.1 album, and his third Top 3. One killer stat: According to that Universal Music Group announcement issued on December 22 last year, combined global calendar-year streams of Taylor Swift’s catalog, at that point in 2022, stood at a massive 36.6 billion plays;
2. Remember: the IFPI list is based specifically on “value” i.e. revenue generated both at retail and on streaming services… and Taylor Swift did exceptionally well with Midnights when it came to physical album sales. The record sold over 1.8 million copies (i.e. real sales across download and physical) in the US last year, says Luminate – including 640,000 from CD sales, 219,000 from download sales, and a stunning 945,000 from vinyl sales. It was the first album to sell over 1 million physical albums in the US since 2015;
3. Taylor Swift had bigger and better success than ever before in one specific, huge global market that has traditionally been hard to penetrate for non-domestic artists: China. According to Universal, Midnights was the fastest-selling record by a ‘western’ artist in history in the territory.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/taylor-swifts-recorded-music-generated-more-money-globally-than-any-other-artist-in-2022/

[JorgeM]

14 minutes ago, Hector said:

The top 20 artists list was based on revenue (how much money earned):

 

And then the crucial bit: “It is weighted based on the relative value of each method of consumption.”

 

What that means in practice: the IFPI’s Top 20 list reveals, in order, the artists who generated the most money last year globally across streaming, download, and physical record sales (combined) in 2022.

 

So how come Bad Bunny is down at No.4 on the IFPI’s money-generating list of global artists, behind Swift (No.1), BTS (No.2), and Drake (No.3)?

 

There are a few obvious factors:

1. The aforementioned Top 3 artists all have significant catalog history on mainstream pop charts around the world (especially, in the US) over the past decade. This means they all have a vast volume of catalog (and catalog listening) on streaming services that would have only been uplifted by their most recent releases. Midnights is Swift’s tenth studio album to date, for example, and her ninth US No.1 album. Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, by contrast, is only the Puerto Rican artist’s second Billboard 200 No.1 album, and his third Top 3. One killer stat: According to that Universal Music Group announcement issued on December 22 last year, combined global calendar-year streams of Taylor Swift’s catalog, at that point in 2022, stood at a massive 36.6 billion plays;
2. Remember: the IFPI list is based specifically on “value” i.e. revenue generated both at retail and on streaming services… and Taylor Swift did exceptionally well with Midnights when it came to physical album sales. The record sold over 1.8 million copies (i.e. real sales across download and physical) in the US last year, says Luminate – including 640,000 from CD sales, 219,000 from download sales, and a stunning 945,000 from vinyl sales. It was the first album to sell over 1 million physical albums in the US since 2015;
3. Taylor Swift had bigger and better success than ever before in one specific, huge global market that has traditionally been hard to penetrate for non-domestic artists: China. According to Universal, Midnights was the fastest-selling record by a ‘western’ artist in history in the territory.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/taylor-swifts-recorded-music-generated-more-money-globally-than-any-other-artist-in-2022/

It is not basing in revue they just weight formats, for example premium streams value more than free streams and physical more tab streams, this is just common for all chart companies 

[Squall]

5 hours ago, Holiest Dreams said:

Adele and Blackpink not being top 20 is very weird. I get them not being top 10, but  I assume BP’s sales were reported incorrectly again? No other logical explanation. For Adele though it’s very surprising.

 

Only 2 women in the top 20 is definitely disappointing. Also surprised Justin and Ariana aren’t there tbh. Also also kinda thought aespa would be there somewhere but I guess they only had one release, so even though it smashed it wasn’t enough to get them there. 

It's really not. 30 has been performing awfully through 2022 and strangely, even 21 stopped having its usual longevity.  

[byzantium]

3 hours ago, Mystic Boy said:

Do we have some predictions for the album chart? 

Renaissance should make it right? along with Taylor, Harry, who else?

 

Considering the kpop albums, I’m not sure if Renaissance will make it.  

[Green]

The top 10 albums will be Taylor, Bad Bunny, Harry and a bunch of k-pop/asian artists albums

[Broken]

7 hours ago, Wolf Alice said:

https://www.musicweek.com/talent/read/taylor-swift-wins-ifpi-s-2022-global-recording-artist-of-the-year-award/087478

 

Full top 20 here @storminthedark

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

Another L for Ms. Impact and her cult.

 

 

 

[Mystic Boy]

1 hour ago, byzantium said:

Considering the kpop albums, I’m not sure if Renaissance will make it.  

 

4 hours ago, Squall said:

Honestly, I don't think Renaissance will be in the top 10. Considering the top 10 for artists, we're most likely getting 3 asian albums: Proof (BTS), Face The Sun (Seventeen), Greatest Works Of Art (Jay Chou). As for the 7 others, I would say Midnights, Harry's House & Un Verano Sin Ti are on lock. That would leave 4 other albums and there's still Drake (Certified Lover Boy might be there?) + other albums that kept selling last year.

 

Maybe on pure? Idk what were her shipments for Renaissance.

 

Thanks for your answers ! We'll see then but yeah it will be flooded with Kpop acts....

[Cloröx]

I didn't expect Bey and Adele to miss Top 20 

[anti-bitch]

3 hours ago, Squall said:

It's really not. 30 has been performing awfully through 2022 and strangely, even 21 stopped having its usual longevity.  

30 yes, but wtf are you talking sh*t about 21. it's doing 3.5M daily on Spotify. and #157 on the BB200. like it was out of Billboard for the whole of 2019-2020. but now it's bounced back with the hits blowing up on tiktok.  If you're gonna speak on Adele, at least get your facts updated.

[BloodLuster]

and ATRLers a month ago were claiming bunny is bigger than Drake with such ease the BACKFIRE

[Holiest Dreams]

4 hours ago, Squall said:

It's really not. 30 has been performing awfully through 2022 and strangely, even 21 stopped having its usual longevity.  

Yeah, it’s not that shocking I guess when you really look at the numbers. But I just mean that it’s weird to think Adele isn’t top 20 artists of 2022 with an album released only a month before the year started  

[Holiest Dreams]

Side question: will we get numbers for the top artists list? I remember people making claims for 2021 (Taylor and BTS around 16.5M and 16M and then Adele around 8M) but I absolutely don’t know if those were true or not. So… do we have any legit info for the past year/s?

[Gerardo]

Glad Benito made it 

Anyone has the top 20 from last year?

[anti-bitch]

2 hours ago, Holiest Dreams said:

Yeah, it’s not that shocking I guess when you really look at the numbers. But I just mean that it’s weird to think Adele isn’t top 20 artists of 2022 with an album released only a month before the year started  

But this list is for the entire discography consumption last year, not just the most recent album and singles. That's why the Beatles can be there. People buy their vinyls a lot. But Adele has released just 4 albums in her career, so that is disadvantage when it comes to total consumption figures. More albums and songs released equals more sales and streams. And yes, Harry Styles has just 3 albums out but he released in May. Once we get the individual albums list, 30 should be in top 20.

[Orsay]

some are missing 

[Yuanyu]

9 hours ago, Papi Juancho said:

Didn't mean to be disrespectful, sorry. Of course they're not local, but their numbers aren't bigger than Beyonce's, Adele's, or Justin's outside of the US. 

Eminem, Kanye and Kendrick probably have better number than those artist outside US.

And it's a global list where the country of origin of the artists also counts, and the rest of the rappers have had a great year in the US which makes them above those artists. 

[Orsay]

wait I just realized only 2 women in the whole top 20... we lost huh

[Scott Borchetta]

12 hours ago, storminthedark said:

(Estimated) Track and album averages for the top 10

 

Taylor: 12 albums • 229 songs
BTS: 15 albums • 235 songs
Drake: 14 albums • 372 songs
Bad Bunny: 6 albums • 158 songs
The Weeknd: 7 albums • 178 songs
Seventeen: 7 albums • 145 songs
Stray Kids: 16 albums • 169 songs
Harry Styles: 3 albums • 35 songs
Jay Chou: 21 albums • 274 songs
Ed Sheeran: 8 albums • 216 songs

cute attempt

 

[Squall]

7 hours ago, anti-***** said:

30 yes, but wtf are you talking sh*t about 21. it's doing 3.5M daily on Spotify. and #157 on the BB200. like it was out of Billboard for the whole of 2019-2020. but now it's bounced back with the hits blowing up on tiktok.  If you're gonna speak on Adele, at least get your facts updated.

From what I see, it was out by June 2022, it’s not like it’s changing much anyway

Edited February 23, 2023 by Squall

[anti-bitch]

13 minutes ago, Squall said:

From what I see, it was out by June 2022, it’s not like it’s changing much anyway

How can you say it's not changing much when both 21 and 25 are back on Billboard 200 now?? I know you're a Swiftie, but my god, TRY to be objective and fair sometimes.