{"id":12673,"date":"2017-12-07T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=12673"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T12:03:22","slug":"ed-sheerans-shape-of-you-is-the-most-streamed-spotify-track-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=12673","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran\u2019s Shape of You is the most-streamed Spotify track ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article821_slide.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article821_slide.jpg\" \/>Spotify released its annual list of the year\u2019s top tracks, artists, and genres this morning, and, in the words of chief content officer Stefan Blom, \u201cThere is no doubt that 2017 was The Year of Ed Sheeran.\u201d Oh, wow.<br \/>\nSheeran\u2019s \u201cShape of You,\u201d which is nominated for a Grammy for best solo pop performance, became the most-streamed track in the platform\u2019s history, racking up 1.4 billion streams since its January release. (Out of curiosity, I put that figure into a streaming royalty calculator. About $5.6 million, in case you were wondering!) His March album, Divide (stylized \u201c\u00f7\u201d, which is rude), was streamed 3.1 billion times, making it the top album on Spotify this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_83590\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGwWNGJdvx8?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>[instagram-feed id=&#8221;185546187&#8243; showheader=&#8221;false&#8221; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify released its annual list of the year\u2019s top tracks, artists, and genres this morning, and, in the words of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}