Drake and Rihanna: The King and Queen of Digital Music 2016

The famous singing duo and rumored lovers Drake and Rihanna are dominating the Spotify system, the world's largest online music listening service.

Drake is the male singer with the most online listeners on Spotify.

On December 1, Spotify announced the list of artists, songs, and albums with the most listeners on this online music service. Among them, Canadian singer Drake continued to take home the title of Most Streamed Male Artist in 2016 with 4.7 billion listens on Spotify. This number is even double the achievement of 1.8 billion listens he achieved last year.

In addition, the song One Dance as well as the album Views released this year also lead the categories of Most Streamed Song, Most Streamed Album. The hit song One Dance has broken the record of Lean on, becoming the most streamed song in Spotify history with 970 million streams since its release in April.

Rihanna was honored in the female category.

Meanwhile, Drake's rumored girlfriend Rihanna also won the title of Most Streamed Female Singer of 2016. This is the second consecutive time the Barbados-born beauty has been honored with this achievement.

With the release of her album ANTI in 2016, Rihanna racked up 2.5 million streams. ANTI also became the third most streamed album of all time, behind only Drake’s Views and Adele’s “British Nightingale” 25. The duo’s duet “Works” also ranked fourth on the list of most streamed songs this year.

Behind Drake are equally famous names such as Kanye West, Justin Bieber and two boy bands Coldplay and Twenty One Pilots. Meanwhile, in the female category, Sia, Adele, Ariana Grande and Beyoncé are the remaining artists in the top 5.

Spotify is one of the world's leading online music services, currently having more than 75 million users worldwide with more than 20 million paying users. In the age of technology, music listeners increasingly prefer this form instead of buying original discs because of the simplicity and convenience that these applications bring.

It cannot be confirmed to be accurate, but the data from Spotify also partly gives observers an overview of the public's musical tastes in recent years, especially among young people.

According to TNO