Songs, Artists and Podcasts
This Puerto Rican artist was Spotify's most streamed artist for the second year in a row in 2021.
Who is Bad Bunny?
This animated series from Studio Fortiche and Riot Games tells the story of two long-lost siblings caught in a war between the city and the slums.
What is Arcane?
This mobile app was the most downloaded app of the year, and the only non-Facebook (now Meta) app to crack the top 4 app downloads in 2021.
What is TikTok?
The United States won the most gold medals at the Tokyo games with 39, beating this country's gold medal count by only a single medal.
What is China?
This restaurant was the most popular fast food restaurant in the country, as well as over 20 states including Texas and Missouri.
What is Chick-Fil-A?
This storied electronic music duo announced their retirement in 2021 in a video simply titled "Epilogue"
What is Daft Punk?
This YouTuber spent 50 hours buried alive in 2021's most-viewed YouTube video and gathered over 150 million views in the process.
Who is MrBeast?
This SpaceX mission carried the first civilians into space in September 2021.
What is Inspiration4?
This artist's 2021 Super Bowl halftime show quickly spawned into a collection of online memes for being confused or disoriented.
Who is The Weeknd?
This roller coaster opened at Universal's Islands of Adventure and sends you flying through jagged rocks and an enclosure for some rather dangerous reptiles.
What is Jurassic World Velocicoaster?
This podcast remained the top podcast of 2021 after its first year on Spotify.
This sitcom brings three people obsessed with true crime together to solve a murder in their apartment building.
What is Only Murders in the Building?
This longtime electronics giant officially closed its mobile division in 2021.
Who is LG?
Who is Tom Daley?
This Major League Baseball club was the 2021 World Series champion, and is also the only MLB franchise to win the World Series in three different home cities.
Who are the Atlanta Braves?
Boston Braves won in 1914
Milwaukee Braves won in 1957
Justin Bieber is one of two Canadian artist to appear in Spotify's top five streamed artists of the year. Who is the other?
This Hazelight Studios game tells the story of a young girl navigating her parents' upcoming divorce, and won Game of the Year at the 2021 Game Awards.
What is It Takes Two?
This company's software remained the most popular operating systems for Smart TVs in 2021 - at least in the United States.
What is Roku?
This US Senator bundled up on their way to being the first big meme of 2021.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
According to Google, this was the top searched food term in 2021.
The album "Rumours" and hit song "Dreams" by this artist both appeared in Spotify's throwback hits this year.
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
This series took the world by storm upon its release in September, pitting hundreds of players against each other in twisted children's games for a chance at a massive monetary prize.
What is Squid Game?
This relic questions and answers board from the early days of the internet finally shut down on May 4, 2021.
This company's stock took a roller coaster ride to the moon and back thanks to some folks online.
What is GME?
Television reboots continued with the revival of this classic Nick series from the 2000s that focuses on a hit web show.