Spotify introduced on Wednesday (November 30) that Dangerous Bunny has turn out to be the service’s greatest world artist for the third yr in a row, after his music was streamed over 18.5 billion instances on the platform.

However that 2022 quantity is much more knock-out than it would first sound – as a result of the unbiased Puerto Rican celebrity truly managed to DOUBLE his stream depend on the service this yr vs. 2021.

Final yr, Dangerous Bunny acquired over 9.1 billion streams, reaching that tally with out even having launched an album in 2021.

In 2020, he had achieved over 8.3 billion streams on Spotify by December 1.

In 2019, Publish Malone claimed the spot of most-streamed artist globally on Spotify with 6.5 billion streams.

The yr earlier than that, in 2018, Drake was the platform’s most-streamed artist globally, with 8.2 billion streams.

Spotify revealed Dangerous Bunny’s world streaming stat for the yr Wednesday (November 30) as a part of the streaming-giant’s Spotify Wrapped feature for 2022.

Dangerous Bunny additionally dominated the platform’s charts, with three of his tracks — Me Porto Bonito, Tití Me Preguntó, and Ojitos Lindos — showing on the Prime 10 Tracks globally.

Dangerous Bunny’s studio album, Un Verano Sin Ti, launched in Might, took the spot because the most-streamed album worldwide in 2022, beating Harry Types’ Harry’s Home, Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR, Ed Sheeran’s = and Doja Cat’s Planet Her.

Earlier this yr, Spotify confirmed that on Friday, Might 6, Dangerous Bunny became the all-time most-streamed artist globally on its platform in a single day.

He racked up 183 million Spotify streams inside 24 hours.

Spotify wasn’t the one streaming platform the place Dangerous Bunny broke data this yr.

His album  Un Verano Sin Ti was additionally probably the most streamed album of 2022 on Apple Music in addition to “the largest Latin album of all time” on the platform.

He was named on November 9 as Apple Music’s ‘Artist of the Year’, in recognition, in accordance with the platform, of his “creative excellence and affect on world tradition in 2022”.Music Enterprise Worldwide