The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2014

Clean Bandit, Sam Smith and Mr Probz songs are among the most streamed this year.
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Clean Bandit’s Rather Be has claimed the title of this year’s most streamed song of 2014, The Official Charts Company can reveal.

The classical-dance track, which features singer Jess Glynne, was streamed 39.7 million times this year on streaming services such as Deezer, Spotify, Napster and Google Play.

The news comes as it revealed that nearly 15 billion songs (14.8 billion) were streamed in 2014, according figures released by music trade body BPI based on Official Charts Company data. The number is almost double of that in 2013, where 7.5 billion tracks were streamed.

The massive growth means that streaming now accounts for 12.6% of all music consumed in the UK, compared to 6.2% in 2013. And with new services including Apple’s Beats and Google’s YouTube Music Key set to launch in 2015, the platform’s growth it set to strengthen even more in the next 12 months as it cements its position at the heart of mainstream music consumption.

Meanwhile, Rather Be – which hit Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in January this year – fends off competition from Pharrell Williams’ Happy, which takes second place with 35 million streams. Happy was recently topped the Official Singles Chart of 2014, which combined sales and streams since the latter was introduced into the chart in July.

John Legend’s All Of Me is the third most streamed track of the year on 34.9 million streams, and Mr Probz’s Waves is at Number 4 with 32.1 million streams.

Rounding out the Top 5 is Sam Smith’s Stay With Me, which topped the singles chart in May this year and has been streamed 29.1 million times in 2014.

Ed Sheeran lands at Number 6 with Thinking Out Loud, which racks up a streaming total of 27.5 million in 2014. Ed also takes the title of most streamed artist in the UK as well as globally this year, with his overal streaming count across all his music totalling over 1 billion. The Top 10 most streamed artists of 2014 in the UK are:

1 ED SHEERAN
2 SAM SMITH
3 ARCTIC MONKEYS
4 EMINEM
5 CALVIN HARRIS
6 COLDPLAY
7 ONE DIRECTION
8 BEYONCE
9 KATY PERRY
10 BASTILLE

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The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2014

1 RATHER BE CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
2 HAPPY PHARRELL WILLIAMS
3 ALL OF ME JOHN LEGEND
4 WAVES MR PROBZ
5 STAY WITH ME SAM SMITH
6 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN
7 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA
8 SING ED SHEERAN
9 TIMBER PITBULL FT KESHA
10 RUDE MAGIC
11 GHOST ELLA HENDERSON
12 SUMMER CALVIN HARRIS
13 MONEY ON MY MIND SAM SMITH
14 DON'T ED SHEERAN
15 FANCY IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX
16 POMPEII BASTILLE
17 DARK HORSE KATY PERRY FT JUICY J
18 RIPTIDE VANCE JOY
19 LET IT GO IDINA MENZEL
20 AM I WRONG NICO & VINZ
21 HIDEAWAY KIESZA
22 COUNTING STARS ONEREPUBLIC
23 CHANDELIER SIA
24 DO I WANNA KNOW ARCTIC MONKEYS
25 I SEE FIRE ED SHEERAN
26 MY LOVE ROUTE 94 FT JESS GLYNNE
27 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS MEGHAN TRAINOR
28 I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE SAM SMITH
29 PRAYER IN C LILLY WOOD & ROBIN SCHULZ
30 PROBLEM ARIANA GRANDE FT IGGY AZALEA
31 BLAME CALVIN HARRIS FT JOHN NEWMAN
32 HEY BROTHER AVICII
33 DRUNK IN LOVE BEYONCE FT JAY-Z
34 A SKY FULL OF STARS COLDPLAY
35 MAGIC COLDPLAY
36 WAKE ME UP AVICII
37 I GOT U DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES
38 LET HER GO PASSENGER
39 DEMONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
40 ROYALS LORDE

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