Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Guess Yo-Yo Ma's ten most-streamed songs on Spotify in as few guesses as you can. Every answer is ranked by real play count, not by chart position or opinion.
Yo-Yo Ma records classical, chamber music and baroque, and the Spotify numbers below show which of those tracks listeners keep coming back to. With 500 tracks tracked on Spotify, there is a lot of catalogue to sort through before the top ten falls out. 692K people follow Yo-Yo Ma on Spotify.
Add up Yo-Yo Ma's top ten and you get 1.17 billion plays on Spotify. Number one alone accounts for 408 million of those plays. The drop-off is steep: about 12x separates first from tenth. These are solid rather than stadium-scale numbers, which tends to make the ordering harder to guess. Last place on the list comes in at 35 million streams, out of 500 tracks tracked in total. That is the line you need to find to complete it.
| # | Song | Streams |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude | 408,490,198 |
| 2 | The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Cello and Piano) | 221,890,967 |
| 3 | Ave Maria | 97,435,211 |
| 4 | Nothing Else Matters | 86,110,287 |
| 5 | Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 (Arr. for Cello and Piano) [Brahms Lullaby] | 81,277,379 |
| 6 | Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan | 68,936,062 |
| 7 | The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe | 64,782,093 |
| 8 | Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude | 62,684,232 |
| 9 | Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 | 41,064,153 |
| 10 | Sayuri's Theme (From "Memoirs of a Geisha" Soundtrack) | 34,660,808 |
"Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude" is Yo-Yo Ma's most-streamed song on Spotify, with 408 million streams.
Ranked by total Spotify streams, they are 1. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude, 2. The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Cello and Piano), 3. Ave Maria, 4. Nothing Else Matters, 5. Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 (Arr. for Cello and Piano) [Brahms Lullaby], 6. Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan, 7. The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe, 8. Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude, 9. Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1, 10. Sayuri's Theme (From "Memoirs of a Geisha" Soundtrack).