Ed Sheeran overtook Dua Lipa and The Weeknd as he won the title of the world's most played artist on radio with 4.3 million plays per year.
The Shape of You hit-maker managed to secure 100,000 more plays than his second-place teammate, Lip, who received 4.2 million plays a year.
According to the net music platform Vibrate, 24,000 radio stations in 150 countries were looked at to collect the data.
It was analyzed that pop music has been the most listened to genre. About 14 million plays were related to pop music while rock remained as the second most popular genre with approximately 80 million spins.
The Weeknd took third place on the list with three million plays, followed by Queen with 2.9 million. Maroon 5 finished fifth with 2.8 million spins.
Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor, told The Sun: "It makes me so happy that there's still so much love for us. It constantly shocks me."
The rock band's frontman, Freddie Mercury, died in 1991, but the group continued to make waves in the music industry with great fanfare.