Wrap-Up 2018: Weekly Winners & Pop Stars

See who reigned supreme this year on Spotify and Apple Music’s leading new music and pop playlists

Wrap-Up 2018: Weekly Winners & Pop Stars
Jason Joven
Jason Joven
December 12, 20184 min read
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Chartmetric data as of Dec 12 2018 | Chartmetric podcast available on all major platforms

Right about now, you’re likely digging through your personalized “2018 Wrapped” playlists on Spotify (it’s in the Genres & Moods section), flipping through Billboard’s “Best Songs of 2018”, or otherwise taking stock of your 2018 resolutions and if you indeed actually went to the gym more.

We hope you did.

But if you didn’t, here’s what you can play when you hit the treadmill!

Removing duplicates and still counting “first billing” (the main artist) remixes, we’ve gone through 2018's biggest “new music” playlists on Spotify (“New Music Friday” or NMF) and Apple Music (“Best of the Week”), as well as their pop music flagships, “Today’s Top Hits” and “Today’s Hits”, respectively.

We pulled out the artists with the most unique track appearances on each list to see who’s been promoted the strongest this year, so enjoy Chartmetric’s 2018 wrap-up!