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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: A New Artist Has the Most Streamed Song of 2026 by Far at the Year’s Midway Mark · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: July Mark so midway point of every year, and the
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  Speaker 2: music data company Illuminate always uses that moment to reveal
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  Speaker 2: the most popular songs on streaming thus far. But twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six is different than usual because two relative newcomers
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  Speaker 2: are on topsis.
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  Speaker 3: Yet normally we have names like what Drake Taylor dominating streaming,
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  Speaker 3: but the most popular songs of twenty twenty six belong
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  Speaker 3: to Ella Langley and Olivia Dean.
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  Speaker 4: And Choosing Texas in particular is absolutely dominating everybody else,
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  Speaker 4: with Ella Langley's hit ranking in more than double the
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  Speaker 4: consumption numbers of any other song.
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  Speaker 2: So not only that Ella also is the fourth biggest
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  Speaker 2: song would be her. Olivia, to her credit, is at
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  Speaker 2: number two with men I Need and at number ten
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  Speaker 2: with so Easy.
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  Speaker 3: He used to have clearly cemented themselves as superstars.
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  Speaker 2: There's still plenty of time to go before we know
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  Speaker 2: who will have the most streamed song of the year,
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  Speaker 2: but with Ella's significant lead, Choosing Texas has got a
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  Speaker 2: real good shot of winning at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,