Google is celebrating a major milestone, with the company having launched Google Play five years ago (on March, 2012). In order to mark the occasion, Google has revealed the most popular apps, games, books, movies, songs, and albums of all time on Google Play.
Since 2012, Google Play has grown to serve 1 billion active users in 190 countries. Millions of apps, games, books, movies, songs, and albums are available from Google’s digital retail park. And thanks to a post on Google’s The Keyword blog, we now know the most popular content.
The Top Fives of Google Play
What follows are the top fives of Google Play across a number of categories. The lists of apps and games only take downloads into account, so any that are pre-installed on Android devices are excluded. Which is why no Google apps make the cut despite being generally brilliant.
The Most Popular Apps
- Facebook Messenger
- Pandora Radio
- Snapchat
The Most Popular Games
- Candy Crush Saga
- Subway Surfers
- Temple Run 2
- Despicable Me
- Clash of Clans
The Most Popular Books
- Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Most Popular Movies
- The Interview
- Frozen
- Deadpool
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Guardians of the Galaxy
The Most Popular Songs
- Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran
- Royals by Lorde
- Blank Space by Taylor Swift
- Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars
- Happy by Pharrell Williams
The Most Popular Albums
- 25 by Adele
- The Marshall Mathers LP2 by Eminem
- 1989 by Taylor Swift
- If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late by Drake
- To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
