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# Spotify Names Most Streamed Songs Of 2012
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-names-most-streamed-songs-of-2012/
- Published: 2012-11-29T10:31:39.000Z
- Updated: 2012-11-29T10:31:39.000Z
- Description: Last time I checked, we still had a month to go, but Spotify has already named Gotye's "Somebody I Used to Know" the top song of the year – the. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/11/spotify-names-most-streamed-songs-of-2012.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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Last time I checked, we still had a month to go, but Spotify has already named Gotye's "Somebody I Used to Know" the top song of the year – the most streamed track globally in 2012\. At #2 was Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", and fun.'s "We Are Young" came in at #3.

**More 2012 Spotify hits:**  

- Gotye's "Somebody I Used to Know" was most streamed in the United States and most shared on social netowrks globally
- David Guetta's "Nothing But the Beat" was the most streamed album worldwide
- Guetta is also 2012's most streamed male artist
- Rihanna is 2012's most streamed female artist
- Coldplay was the top group.

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