SoundCloud reveal their most popular artists and tracks of 2017

SoundCloud took a look back at the year that was and told us their top-ranking artists and tracks of 2017.

At the top, rapper Lil Uzi Vert has the Top Album of the year with Luv is Rage 2, while the Top Electronic Track went to Unlike Pluto with ‘Everything Black.’

Dutch DJ and producer R3hab took home the gong for Top Remixer, while the most remixed track of the year was Ed Sheeran’s massive pop hit ‘Shape Of You’ (which Alison Wonderland took on earlier in the year.) The Top Remix though, was VMK and That Behaviour’s edit of ‘Despacito’.

SoundCloud also identified those cities that are driving creativity in the music world, with New York, London, Berlin, Jakarta, Hanoi, and Seoul all making the cut.

Check out the full 2017 review below:

Top Album

Lil Uzi Vert, LUV is Rage 2

Top Remixer

R3hab

Most Remixed Track

Ed Sheeran, ‘Shape of You’

Top Podcast Personality

Shane & Friends

Top Playlist

Created by ilyanaazman, ‘Best of Chill/House Nation’

Top DJ Set

Two Friends, ‘Big Bootie Mix, Volume 11’

Tags with Buzz

LoFi Hip-Hop
ChillHop
Soca
Phonk
Synthwave
Vaporwave
Future Bass

Top R&B/Soul Track

SZA featuring Travis Scott, ‘Love Galore’

Top Pop Track

Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, ‘1-800-273-8255’

Top Rock Track

Linkin Park featuring Kiiara, ‘Heavy’

Top Remix

Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber, ‘Despacito (VMK, That Behavior Remix)’

Top Electronic Track

Unlike Pluto featuring Mike Taylor, ‘Everything Black’

Top Rap/Hip-hop Track

Lil Uzi Vert, ‘XO Tour Llif3’

Artists who were on SoundCloud first and owned the internet in 2017

Kehlani
Khalid
Lil Uzi Vert
Lil Pump
Marshmello
Post Malone
Trippie Redd

Top Cities Driving Creativity

New York
Cairo
Los Angeles
Chicago
Paris
Houston
Berlin
Jakarta
Atlanta
Philadelphia
Toronto
London
Tokyo
Hanoi
Seoul

2017’s Buzziest Drops

May 16th: Travis Scott drops three tracks ‘Butterfly Effect’, ‘Green & Purple’ and ‘A Man’

June 8th: BTS drops ‘4 o’clock’

July 15th: Chance the Rapper drops ‘Big B’s’ featuring Young Thug

Artists to Watch in 2018

Ro Ransom
Melo Makes Music
Cautious Clay
Jori Vague
Mabel
Nilufer Yanya
Lil Wop
Bosco
Cobi
DNMO