other stats Most streamed albums & tracks on Spotify by british acts by year of release(1963-2023

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This is the list of most streamed albums and tracks on Spotify by british artists by year of release since 1963 when The Beatles started the british invasion until 2023.

 

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
1963	Please Please Me The Beatles	1,090,212,376	Twist And Shout The Beatles	418,731,742
1964	The Animals  The Animals	892,081,454	House of the Rising Sun The Animals	875,912,145
1965	Help! The Beatles	1,362,951,364	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones	650,546,178
1966	Aftermath The Rolling Stones	1,195,781,819	Paint It, Black The Rolling Stones	1,032,476,457
1967	Blowin' Your Mind! Van Morrison	931,194,578	Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison	910,121,938
1968	The Beatles (White Album) The Beatles	1,838,515,381	Hey Jude The Beatles	544,531,630
1969	Abbey Road The Beatles	2,862,693,286	Here Comes The Sun The Beatles	1,139,949,245

 

  

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
1970	Paranoid Black Sabbath	1,817,782,262	Paranoid Black Sabbath	931,211,295
1971	Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin	1,952,803,428	Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin	898,748,926
1972	Honky Château Elton John	1,112,556,790	Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) Elton John	983,181,968
1973	The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd	2,075,329,493	Money Pink Floyd	463,200,260
1974	Sheer Heart Attack Queen	953,466,249	Killer Queen Queen	743,568,976
1975	A Night At The Opera Queen	3,318,516,445	Bohemian Rhapsody Queen	2,315,522,843
1976	A Day At The Races Queen	1,235,355,881	Somebody To Love Queen	822,608,924
1977	Rumours Fleetwood Mac	4,736,543,873	Dreams Fleetwood Mac	1,436,494,183
1978	Jazz Queen	2,336,591,260	Don't Stop Me Now Queen	1,768,526,066
1979	The Wall Pink Floyd	2,730,802,204	Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2  Pink Floyd	806,421,489

 

 

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
1980	The Game Queen	2,633,692,126	Another One Bites The Dust  Queen	1,676,364,082
1981	Non Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Cell	772,868,295	Under Pressure Queen & David Bowie	1,457,043,154
1982	Hot Space Queen	1,590,805,868	Should I Stay or Should I Go The Clash	941,126,645
1983	Synchronicity The Police	1,948,858,343	Every Breath You Take The Police	1,761,897,189
1984	The Works Queen	1,675,035,869	Last Christmas Wham!	1,262,140,620
1985	Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears	1,980,330,246	Everybody Wants To Rule The World Tears For Fears	1,384,847,014
1986	The Queen Is Dead The Smiths	1,108,852,378	There Is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths	491,187,412
1987	Tango In The Night Fleetwood Mac	1,495,284,068	Everywhere  Fleetwood Mac	782,944,898
1988	Sunshine On Leith The Proclaimers	786,968,427	I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) The Proclaimers	686,745,726
1989	...But Seriously Phil Collins	723,911,680	Another Day in Paradise Phil Collins	399,398,049

 

 

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
1990	Violator Depeche Mode	621,214,148	Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode	564,131,346
1991	Innuendo Queen	707,537,055	The Show Must Go On Queen	387,627,557
1992	Wish The Cure	780,657,410	Creep Radiohead	1,428,874,221
1993	Pablo Honey Radiohead	1,568,587,042	Fields Of Gold Sting	307,166,655
1994	The Lion King Soundtrack Elton John	1,504,421,318	Can You Feel The Love Tonight Elton John	297,247,588
1995	(What's The Story) Morning Glory? Oasis	3,680,311,939	Wonderwall  Oasis	1,818,668,594
1996	Spice Spice Girls	1,401,228,096	Wannabe Spice Girls	985,619,819
1997	OK Computer Radiohead	1,935,653,977	Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve	950,379,609
1998	Mezzanine Massive Attack	509,752,335	Teardrop Massive Attack	262,555,607
1999	Tarzan Soundtrack Phil Collins	918,488,559	Dancing in the Moonlight Toploader	768,793,711

 

 

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
2000	Parachutes Coldplay	3,688,811,772	Yellow Coldplay	1,963,822,161
2001	Gorillaz Gorillaz	1,235,743,083	Clint Eastwood Gorillaz	723,111,981
2002	A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay	3,369,946,874	The Scientist Coldplay	1,715,054,465
2003	Absolution Muse	759,814,821	White Flag Dido	318,336,127
2004	Hopes And Fears Keane	1,985,348,819	Somewhere Only We Know Keane	1,254,987,613
2005	Demon Days Gorillaz	2,471,041,045	Fix You Coldplay	1,317,466,455
2006	Back To Black Amy Winehouse	3,536,854,108	Chasing Cars Snow Patrol	1,195,775,035
2007	Favourite Worst Nightmare Arctic Monkeys	3,301,763,345	505 Arctic Monkeys	1,389,512,403
2008	Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends Coldplay	2,583,145,146	Viva La Vida Coldplay	1,790,583,558
2009	Lungs Florence + The Machine	2,180,603,739	Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons	663,445,519

 

 

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
2010	Tourist History Two Door Cinema Club	1,609,541,812	Rolling in the Deep Adele	1,610,724,202
2011	21 Adele	6,293,919,509	Someone Like You Adele	1,743,188,125
2012	18 Months Calvin Harris	4,178,795,746	Another Love Tom Odell	2,067,146,147
2013	AM Arctic Monkeys	8,095,271,285	Do I Wanna Know? Arctic Monkeys	1,952,063,809
2014	Multiply (x) Ed Sheeran	10,225,174,613	Thinking out Loud Ed Sheeran	2,370,949,325
2015	25 Adele	6,181,824,130	Hello Adele	1,475,204,466
2016	Back From The Edge James Arthur	4,375,341,996	Say You Won't Let Go James Arthur	2,559,441,114
2017	Divide (÷) Ed Sheeran	14,096,713,483	Shape of You Ed Sheeran	3,704,366,081
2018	Speak Your Mind Anne-Marie	5,484,301,790	Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi	3,085,738,143
2019	Fine Line Harry Styles	8,585,969,751	Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles	2,468,967,142

 

 

 

Year	Albums	Spotify Streams	Tracks	Spotify Streams
2020	Future Nostalgia Dua Lipa	11,502,559,561	Heat Waves Glass Animals	2,744,873,924
2021	Equals (=) Ed Sheeran	5,412,941,813	Cold Heart - PNAU Remix Elton John & Dua Lipa	1,766,981,704
2022	Harry's House Harry Styles	6,859,190,986	As It Was Harry Styles	2,850,433,783
2023	Another Friday Night Joel Corry	2,916,618,861	Boy's a Liar Pt. 2 PinkPantheress	731,189,688

 

 

 

[dejmieeen]

Not Adele having „Rolling in the Deep” with more streams than Two Door Cinema Club’s whole album.

[Yoko]

pinkpantheress the icon you are

[Yakult]

This is an interesting list. Though I feel like total streams is an odd way to rank albums on a platform that favours singles.

 

I’d love to see the least streamed track(s) from albums to see which were boosted by big singles and/or long track lists.

 

There’s no way Joel Corry had the most successful British album of 2023 with what is essentially a greatest hits + a few album tracks.

 

I presume A/C type artists don’t really appeal to Spotify’s user base. Dido dominated the early 2000s and her streams seem so low compared to that prior success.

[AidanUnderYou]

I had no idea Two Door Cinema Club were that popular wtf 

[pearlmercury]

Two Door Cinema Club talents won

[nostalgic]

Soft Cell, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, the icons you are 

[poki]

Bitter Sweet Symphony

Heat Waves

 

[Zaynsus]

I had no idea some of these artists were British

[Delirious]

Technically 2015 is love me like you do if you combine both versions 

[Mystic Boy]

 

Reading this was such a journey, The Beatles,Pink Floyd,Queen,Elton

 

British People,y all can be proud of your country for creating this much masterpieces and monuments of music. Music would be nothing without British touch

 

Had no idea Fleetwood Mac "Everywhere" was so popular  

Definitely my fave from them after "Dreams".