SoundExchange has created a list of the new tracks that received the most non-interactive streams in 2022 and there are some glaring differences from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and the other interactive streaming top track lists.
Lil Nas X took the top spot on the SoundExchange list of Top 22 Tracks of 2022 with “That’s What I Want,” and appears at No. 17 with “Industry Baby,” his collaboration with Jack Harlow.
No. 2 is “Big Energy” from Latto, the lead single from her second studio album, 777. Sitting at No. 3 is Adele with “Easy On Me,” from her fourth studio album 30, while Justin Bieber takes the No. 4 spot with “Ghost,” and Ed Sheeran posts “Shivers” at No. 5.
Doja Cat shows up more than any other artist, notching three tracks in our Top 22 – “Need To Know” (No. 6), “Woman” (No. 11),” and “You Right,” her collaboration with The Weeknd (No. 20).
But missing are two artists that top every other streaming list - Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift. Are interactive and non-interactive steams really that different?
GAYLE tops the SoundExchange Top 22 Breakout Creators of 2022. The Plano, Texas native broke through this year with “abcdefu,” which featured at No. 16 on the SoundExchange Top 22 Tracks of 2022 list. Released as a single, the viral TikTok hit topped charts around the world and was later included on her six-song EP A Study of the Human Experience Volume One. She will be among the opening acts on Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023.
Em Beihold, took the second spot on the Breakout Creators list. Her “Numb Little Bug” from the Egg in the Backseat EP was a hit in multiple countries, and she toured with Anson Sebra and King Princess this year.
Lists are based on a 12-month period spanning November 1, 2021, through November 30, 2022.
Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.
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