The MENA region (short for Middle East and North Africa) has been a place of mystery for very long with no official charts and very few certifications ever coming out.
This resulted in very little awareness of sales happening there. Luckily these days are now over with streaming taking over the industry.
In this article, we will list the most popular international stars in the region, where does your favorite one lands?
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After posting multiple hits as part of No Doubt, Gwen Stefani decided to embark a solo career from 2004.
With instant hits like What You Waiting For?, Rich Girl and Hollaback Girl, she obviously did the right move.
She hasn’t been much productive through, so what’s left from her legacy nowadays?
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So, are you ready to see a countdown of the best selling artists of the 2010s?
A decade ago, the music industry was completely different. We still had record players at home, downloads was the big thing, Adele and Drake were promising newcomers at best and nobody had heard about streaming platforms.
For artists, that’s the tricky part. A decade is long enough to see a completely new generation of music consumers replace the former one.
That’s why it takes you a lot of appeal to remain on top and why this list is made of the truly biggest artists in the World…
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If you visit us, you surely saw a lot of news in recent years stating streaming records. What’s unlikely is that you ever saw a comprehensive list of Spotify most streamed artists, with numbers for all those who belong to the all-time top 200.
Thanks to our Spotify numbers tool, it’s now possible to retrieve an enormous quantity of data very efficiently. So, who are the most streamed male, female, bands, legacy artists on the platform?
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After going through the most streamed international songs in India, we want to get a larger view by looking at the top artists.
The likes Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, BTS, Ariana Grande all seem very strong, but who’s the according to the numbers?
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Not too long ago, we mentioned India as a dark horse to become a monster music market. It is really happening.
Now, 8 months later, the 3 largest local platforms are displaying streaming counts of all songs and figures are amazing already.
We did the job for you, collecting streams from all these platforms as well as from Spotify India to complete the list of the most streamed international hits in India!
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How many times are we going to bury Maroon 5 only to see them comeback as strong as ever?
Rare are the artists who exploded during the hey-days of CDs who are still making some serious waves on streaming platforms with new songs.
The Adam Levine band is clearly one of them. Their name is enough to bring back memories, and the memories bring them back, again.
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Every year China seems to be climbing several positions on IFPI’s top music market’s ranking and the growth doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
In just a few years we could see this country overtake markets like the UK, France and Germany and seriously challenging Japan! So who is benefiting the most from this? Just like we did with Gaana earlier this year we’re now looking at the most followed international artists on QQ Music, China’s biggest streaming service.
With 9 number one singles in her native country, Katy Perry is undoubtedly one of the biggest hit makers of the past 10 years. She shaped the digital era alongside artists like Rihanna, Adele, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars & Maroon 5.
Has this success managed to translate into other metrics? We’ll find out shortly enough!
