2022 Top 10 Spotify Ghana streams, what Ghanaians listened to in 2022

2022 Top 10 Spotify Ghana streams, what Ghanaians listened to in 2022.

Every year, the digital music streaming platform, Spotify provides year-long data of streams by citizens of each country. Dubbed Spotify Wrapped, the data shows what people have been listening to throughout the year on the platform.

This year’s Spotify Wrapped data for Ghana showed Ghanaians listened to a lot of artists outside Ghana. Thus, aside from their Ghanaian artists, Ghanaians largely allowed foreign artists to also thrive in Ghana.

Thus, Ghanaian music lovers listened to a lot of global hits and hits from other African countries. This is another proof of Ghanaians’ extremely hospitable nature. It has also cemented Ghana’s place as the ‘Gateway to Africa’ as these songs resonated with many across the African continent.

Moreover, Spotify’s head of music for Sub-Saharan Africa, Phiona Okumu had this to say about Ghana:

“This year, Ghanaians have shown that music is indeed a universal language. Spotify Wrapped results show Ghanaians are as welcoming of international influences as local ones and those from the wider African continent.”

Meanwhile, check out Ghana’s Spotify Wrapped results for 2022. It is an annual round-up of the top artists and music of the year as streamed by users around the world, showing how Ghanaians are listening to music.

• Ghanaians love a good party, and they start this from 5:00 pm when the sun is about to go down through to 6:00 pm and 11:00 pm according to the latest Spotify Wrapped data. It is therefore no surprise that the day they stream the most music is Friday, followed by Saturday.

• The playlist they jam to the most is African Heat – Spotify’s curated playlist which compiles all the tracks heating up the continent.

• It goes without saying that Ghanaians love their own, as local music consumption keeps soaring with an impressive 193% year-on-year increase from 2021 to 2022.

• Nigerian artists are enjoying a sweet spot in Ghana, as Burna Boy takes the top spot as the most streamed artist in the country this year. Homegrown talent Black Sherif continues to have a stand-out presence in music, ending the year as the second most streamed artist locally.

• The two also clinched top spots for the most streamed albums of the year with Love, Damini by Burna Boy leading followed by Black Sherif’s The Villian I Never Was.

• Spotify RADAR Global Artist Ayra Starr topped the list as the most streamed female artist in Ghana. She’s followed closely by the Grammy-nominated Tems, with Africa’s first to join Spotify’s EQUAL Programme, Gyakie in third place.

• Black Sherif’s meteoric rise to fame which he chronicled in his Kwaku The Traveller got the most heart hits among Ghanaians.