Music-streaming rises by 100% during 2013

The streaming of music online has doubled over the last twelve months, reports say.

Whilst criticism of music-streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer grows, the use of such software continues to rise rapidly also. The Official Charts Company note an increase of 100% during 2013, growing from 3.7 billion streams in 2012 to 7.4 billion.

Spotify in particular has been on the receiving end of much criticism over the past year, with the likes of Thom Yorke and David Byrne protesting against their low royalty payments.

Below you can find a list of the Top 10 most-streamed tracks of 2013:

1 Get Lucky – Daft Punk Ft Pharrell Williams And Nile Rodgers
2 Pompeii – Bastille
3 Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke/TI/Pharrell Williams
4 Let Her Go – Passenger
5 Wake Me Up – Avicii
6 Can’t Hold Us – Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Dalton
7 La La La – Naughty Boy Ft Sam Smith
8 Thrift Shop – Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Wanz
9 Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
10 Ho Hey – Lumineers

[via NME]