Spotify Wrapped: Taylor Swift reigns as the Philippines' top artist in 2022

Spotify Wrapped is finally here and we're just as thrilled as you are!

Along with everybody's personal Wrapped for 2022, Spotify on Thursday announced the Philippines' collective Wrapped, including top artists, top albums, and top podcasts of 2022.

"Anti-Hero" hitmaker Taylor Swift is the Philippines' top artist, followed by South Korean male group BTS.

"Habang Buhay" singer Zack Tabudlo secured the third spot — and was also named as this year's top local artist — with Ben&Ben and Justin Bieber completing the Philippines' list of Top 5 Artists of the year.

In a Spotify Wrapped event held at Astbury in Makati on Thursday, Spotify Asia's head of music, Kossy Ng said she's thrilled to see Filipino artists continue to prosper in the local and global scene.

"The Philippines are increasingly listening to and supporting their homegrown talent, and we have seen an almost 50% increase in streams of local music the past year," she told the press.

Apart from sitting on the third spot of Top Artists, Zack Tabudlo was also named as this year's top local artist, besting Ben&Ben, Arthur Nery, Moira dela Torre, and Adie.

The annual much-awaited Spotify Wrapped dropped late Wednesday evening. In addition to top artists, genres, songs, podcasts, and even minutes listened, Spotify this year added two new features. The first, dubbed "Your Listening Personality," which tells listeners their, well personalities based on the things they've been listening to. 

This year, Spotify also added "Your Artist Message," where eligible fans will get a personalized video feed with thank you messages from some of their top artists in 2022, followed by their most listened-to song from that artist this year.

Wanna see your personalized year-end music listening habits summary? Click here and join the Wrapped fun. On Philippine Twitter, Spotify Wrapped has been trending all Thursday long with nearly 2M tweets as of writing. — LA, GMA Integrated News