When The Weeknd released “Blinding Lights” in 2019, it marked the start of a new era in pop music. The track—crafted with songwriting giants Max Martin and Oscar Holter—not only took The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye into his imperial phase, it also made history, becoming the No. 1 song of all time on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. So it’s little surprise that it tops this playlist, which reveals the 200 tracks from the 2010s still on heaviest rotation in the UK now. The top 10 also features “Shape of You”, the Ed Sheeran megahit that’s so popular it has never dropped out of the Top 200 on Apple Music since its release in 2017. If the 2000s birthed streaming, the 2010s revealed its true impact, with a new generation of artists being propelled to the top via dizzying numbers—from Sheeran (who appears 12 times here) to Drake, Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi, Dave and Harry Styles. Then there are the decade’s viral hits that we still can’t get enough of: see Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey” and CKay’s “Love Nwantiti (ah ah ah) [feat. Joeboy & Kuami Eugene] [Remix]”, both in the top 10. But the 2010s’ streaming revolution also gave birth to a breed of powerful new pop stars: genre-evasive trailblazers who have helped break down music’s frontiers. There’s Lil Nas X, who rode into superstardom via the country hit “Old Town Road”; Post Malone, whose music straddles hip-hop, R&B and pop; and Doja Cat, who has continually leveraged social media to morph from viral sensation to hit machine, shuffling through genres like a pack of cards as she goes. This playlist also hints at what was to come by the time the 2010s closed out, with enduring hits by Dave, Stormzy, J Hus and AJ Tracey signalling UK-made rap as the next unstoppable force of British music. Dive into this playlist for a look at the most lasting songs from an era that transformed music—and upended who was creating its biggest hits.