Wud Records: 20 Most Played Tracks of 2022

Posted in News on 07/01/2023

20 Most Played Tracks of 2022

We thought it might be fun to make two playlists of the 20 most played tracks of 2022, one each for SoundCloud and Bandcamp. We felt that such playlists would enable fans of our bands to hear what has been hot and to have the opportunity to enjoy listening to some of our most popular tracks of recent times.

SoundCloud

Wud Records had a moderate year on SoundCloud. Streaming activity was at its lowest for seven years. We gained around 250 new followers, ending the year with just over 3450 followers. It is very pleasing that more new fans across the world are discovering and enjoying the great music made by our amazing artists.

Making a SoundCloud playlist of the tracks that were popular there is easily done. To listen to the 20 Most Played Tracks of 2022 playlist at the SoundCloud website, simply click here to open that page in a new tab.

The 20 Most Played Tracks of 2022 were entirely dominated by three acts, with a single track from Alchemeon. This means that the three active bands we have on SoundCloud are all represented, as is the most recently retired legacy act.

Dark Company achieved eight of the top twenty songs, with each of their first four albums represented.

The Bastard Sons of Dennis claimed six of the twenty places, with five of those songs coming from their recently added Cosy Lube Turtle album.

All five of the Flicker tracks are the wonderful instrumentals from their much-loved album At Least 1000 Words. The most streamed track at SoundCloud in 2022, Oily Road Hideaway, was also the most streamed SoundCloud track in 2020. It was the number one track for four months in 2022, from February to May, and present in every top ten apart from Septmeber and October.

We are working on more tracks for Flicker’s second album, HappySad, and hope to bring some of them to you before long.

That leaves just one space for a solitary Alchemeon song.

It is worth noting that these are only the most streamed tracks at SoundCloud, rather than the most popular. The total amounts of likes, reposts and comments have been ignored. Taking these other factors into consideration would inevitably yield different results.

Top 20 Most Played SoundCloud Tracks 2022

Bandcamp

It’s been a reasonable year for Wud Records on Bandcamp. Sales and streams were fairly even across the whole year, with Mark Drower and the Everyones enjoying a spike in July and August for their 40th anniversary.

Bandcamp is the platform with the best ethos in the business. If you are not a member yet, it’s time to join.

One of the great features of Bandcamp is its Communities. You can join ours by clicking here. ;-)

Overall in 2022, both our streams and sales were down very slightly compared to 2021. The best-selling album was Dark Company‘s Rage in Heaven, and the best selling individual track (but it was a very close call!) was Moonpath from Flicker‘s At Least 1000 Words album.

The 2022 chart of most streamed tracks on Bandcamp sees a good spread of different artists, with no one act claiming domination for the year’s Bandcamp streams.

Over at Bandcamp it is not so easy to make a simple playlist of our popular tracks. Instead, what we have done is created some sort of playlist here, within this very news post, for your listening pleasure. Simply clicking on the links below will allow you to play the various tracks.