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Galena is the most listened to artist in Bulgaria last year, judging by the country's YouTube searches, according to the British website Liberty Games.

It ranks the most played songs by genre both globally and by country.

Users of the video platform in the country have played 129 million times Galena's songs in the last year.

Hers is also the most listened to song on "YouTube" from Bulgaria, as the duet with Azis "А + Д= VNL" has been played 32.4 million times.

Galena poked herself in the stomach.

He went to appointments with a doctor

When it comes to rock bands, Bulgarians most often listen to "Metallica" (6.26 million listens).

In this style, the leader in the world ranking is "Queen" (1.86 billion views of their songs), followed by "Guns and Roses", AC/DC, "Bon Jovi", "Nirvana" and "The Beatles".

Of the hip-hop artists, Tupac's songs are most often listened to in Bulgaria.

He is number 1 worldwide with over 1.4 billion views of his tracks.

A Tupac song was sung in a church

When it comes to classical music, last year Bulgarians listened to Mozart most often (63 thousand views).

On a global scale, the Austrian composer is second only to Chopin.

The most popular country musician in Bulgaria is Shanaya Twain (442 thousand views of her songs).

In the world ranking, she is second with 346 million plays, and the leader is Alan Jackson (412 million).

The most listened to artist in the world for 2022 is the Indian singer Alka Yagnik with 14.8 billion views of her songs on YouTube.

Interestingly, she performed tracks that later soundtracked popular Bollywood films.

In second place after her is the Puerto Rican singer, rapper and producer Bad Bunny (14.1 billion views during the year).

Next are three Indians, also singing for Bollywood, whose names hardly matter.

Koreans from BTS are sixth, and another popular K-pop band, Black Pink, is eighth.