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 estimated Spotify streams, not by 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. 694K people follow Yo-Yo Ma on Spotify.
Add up Yo-Yo Ma's top ten and you get 1.74 billion plays on Spotify. Number one alone accounts for 867 million of those plays. The gap at the top is enormous: around 25 times between first and tenth, and the leading track takes 50% of the whole list by itself. Expect one obvious answer and some much harder ones. The billion mark is still ahead of Yo-Yo Ma, but not by much. 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 | Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude | 867,423,741 |
| 2 | The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Cello and Piano) | 222,570,560 |
| 3 | Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan | 176,210,411 |
| 4 | Ave Maria | 98,598,453 |
| 5 | Nothing Else Matters | 86,391,178 |
| 6 | Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 (Arr. for Cello and Piano) [Brahms Lullaby] | 81,562,876 |
| 7 | Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan | 69,173,800 |
| 8 | The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe | 64,942,713 |
| 9 | Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 | 41,172,229 |
| 10 | Sayuri's Theme (From "Memoirs of a Geisha" Soundtrack) | 34,719,865 |
Stream figures from Kworb.net, refreshed weekly.
"Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude" is Yo-Yo Ma's most-streamed song on Spotify, with 867 million streams.
Ranked by total Spotify streams, they are 1. Unaccompanied 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. Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan, 4. Ave Maria, 5. Nothing Else Matters, 6. Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 (Arr. for Cello and Piano) [Brahms Lullaby], 7. Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan, 8. The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe, 9. Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1, 10. Sayuri's Theme (From "Memoirs of a Geisha" Soundtrack).