It’s Valentine’s Day in 2019, but you might as well call 2019 the year of bad boys.
In this smutty way, we give you the world’s top 10 streaming artists in the first half of 2021, according to a study by Spotify, who give recommendations about which artists you should check out if you’re in the market for some dirty music.
Forget “anthemic” rock outfits like Coldplay, A Thousand Horses, Imagine Dragons, or even that other band from the Great White North, Troye Sivan. South of the border, a trio from Guadalajara, Mexico, was found to be the sultry artists to hear in 2020 and beyond.
According to the study, which is Spotify’s attempt to discover “the next Ten” as promised by the streaming giant, “bad boys” get the highest number of streams in terms of duration. We’d consider this to be a Grammy-approved self-professed god of bad boy-dom.
First up is Brazil’s sensual electro-pop sensation, Bad Bunny, followed by the soulful purveyor of bad-boy love Olivia Rodrigo. This is your guide to male escapism for the first half of the year.