The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2014

Clean Bandit, Sam Smith and Mr Probz songs are among the most streamed this year.

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

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