According to analytics service Viberate, Queen is the most-played rock band on radio around the world and the fourth most-played artist across all genres.
“We crunched the annual numbers behind every relevant music and social media channel, from Spotify to Beatport and TikTok, and drew conclusions regarding music industry trends and markets in 2022,” the report said.
Viberate, after scanning nearly 50 million tracks and videos, also calculated that rock was the fourth-biggest genre on Spotify with 31.8 billion streams in 2021, compared with 145 billion for pop, 83.2 billion for hip-hop, and 55.9 billion for Latin. On YouTube, rock was also fourth-biggest with 8.9 billion views, compared with 71 billion for pop, 54.9 billion for Latin, and 44.9 billion for hip-hop.
In their analysis of over 24,000 radio stations in 150 countries around the world, rock proved to be the second-biggest genre over the airwaves with 79.7 million plays compared to pop, which had 141 million plays.
Queen came fourth in the list of most-played artists, after Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, and The Weeknd.
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