As the world gears up to the 40th anniversary of the death of superstar Elvis on August 16, Spotify has today revealed that Glasgow is the city in the world that can’t get enough of the King of Rock and Roll.
To commemorate the legacy left behind by the singer, the music streaming service has taken a look at the musical impact he continues to have today.
Surprisingly, no city in Elvis’ home country of the US has the biggest share of Elvis listeners - it’s actually Scotland’s very own Glasgow.
Three out of the top five cities with the largest share of Elvis listening come from the UK, with Glasgow, Manchester, and Birmingham coming in at numbers one, three, and five, respectively.
Sweden has the highest concentration of listeners in a country globally, with the UK coming second.
Overall, four decades on, listeners across the globe continue to stream the icon’s biggest hits, including ‘Jailhouse Rock’, ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’.
Listen to the King’s biggest hits on Spotify:
Elvis’s catalogue of songs have been streamed well over a billion times, the equivalent of almost 4,000 years of streaming.
The most-streamed Elvis song globally and in the US is ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’, which has been streamed more than 90 million times.
‘Suspicious Minds’ is at number two with 69 million streams worldwide, and ‘Jailhouse Rock’ rounds out the global top three with 68 million streams.
Top 10 cities in the world that stream Elvis the most (normalised*):
- Glasgow, Glasgow City, UK
- Santiago, Region Metropolitana, CL
- Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, SE
- Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Dublin, Dublin, IE
- Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, SE
- Oslo, Oslo, NO
- Melbourne, Victoria, AU
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
* Elvis listening was normalised by dividing his streams by all streams in a country or city
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