The Grammys and the Super Bowl are over, and we’re already halfway through February, a little late for a 2025 predictions piece. But as we await the melting of snow and the beginning of baseball season, it seems like a good time to delve into the biggest streaming surprises of the last year, and beyond.

So I teamed up with my pal Dan Runcie at Trapital to dig into a trove of data—Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report and the all-time Spotify numbers, which now span nearly two decades—you can listen to ...