Music
30 Nov 12

Gotye top Spotify end of year charts

'Somebody That I Used To Know' was the most listened to track on Spotify this year...

The Swedish based music streaming website, which recently launched in Ireland, has just released details of what it's 15 million estimated worldwide users have be listening to this year.

There are no real surprises on the lists. Most of the tracks and artists will be familiar to almost anybody who listens to chart music on a regular basis.

Most-streamed tracks of 2012

1. Gotye featuring Kimbra - ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’
2. Carly Rae Jepsen - ‘Call Me Maybe’
3. Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe – ‘We Are Young’
4. Flo Rida - ‘Whistle’
5. Flo Rida featuring Sia - ‘Wild Ones’
6. One Direction - 'What Makes You Beautiful'
7. Flo Rida featuring Sia - 'Wild Ones'
8. M83 - 'Midnight City'
9. The Wanted - 'Glad You Came'
10. Nicki Minaj - 'Starships'

Most-streamed albums of 2012

1. David Guetta - ‘Nothing But The Beat’
2. Gotye - ‘Making Mirrors’
3. Drake - ‘Take Care’
4. Lana Del Ray - ‘Born To Die’
5. One Direction - ‘Up All Night’

Most-streamed bands of 2012

1. Coldplay
2. Maroon 5
3. Fun
4. Mumford and Sons
5. Florence and the Machine