Looking at Google Play’s most popular content over the past 5 years

A top 5 list doesn’t tell the whole story, but it’s still interesting.

Google Play has been around for five years now — a surprisingly long time — and to celebrate, Google has compiled multiple lists of the top five pieces of content in each part of the store. Games, apps, songs, albums, movies and books are the big categories here, and the lists round out just about as you’d expect.

Top installed games

Candy Crush Saga
Subway Surfers
Temple Run 2
Despicable Me
Clash of Clans

Top installed apps
(not including pre-installed apps)

Facebook
Facebook Messenger
Pandora Radio
Instagram
Snapchat

Top selling songs

Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
Lorde – Royals
Taylor Swift – Blank Space
Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
Pharrell Williams – Happy

Top selling albums

Adele – 25
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2 (Deluxe)
Taylor Swift – 1989
Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly

Top selling movies

The Interview
Frozen
Deadpool
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Guardians of the Galaxy

Top selling books

Fifty Shades of Grey, by E L 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

Do any of the top charts stand out to you? Everything seems about as you’d think if you were asked blind what would top the list on the Play Store. If you want to download any of this top content for yourself, Google Play has a handy page with all of it in one place.