Spotify announced Drake as the most-streamed star of the 2010s with 28 billion streams, and Ed Sheeran's 'Shape Of You' as the most-streamed track with 2.4 billion streams.
Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
Elon Musk revealed Tesla's first electric cyber truck with shatterproof windows.
The Disney+ streaming service was launched.
Lana Del Rey's song 'Video Games' was named song of the decade at the Q Awards in London.
The Netflix movie 'Bird Box' and the TV series 'Stranger Things' was reported to be Netflix's most popular for 2019.
Three thousand five hundred women in Iran were allowed to attend a soccer match for the first time in 40 years.
Personal information of Ecuador's entire population (16.6 million) became available online on an unsecured cloud server in Miami.
Margaret Atwood published 'The Testaments,' a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale,' which she released 15 years prior.
YouTube was fined $170 million for collecting data on child users.
Jessi Combs broke the female fastest land speed record when her jet-powered vehicle reached a speed of 522.783 mph (841.338 kph).
Thousands of anti-government protesters disrupted Hong Kong International Airport.
Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' single reached a new record for the longest time on the Billboard charts after spending 17 weeks at number one.
Meghan Markle became the first-ever guest editor for UK Vogue.
Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' became the most financially successful movie of all time.
Babe Ruth's baseball jersey became the most expensive sports memorabilia when it sold for $5.6 million.
Toy Story 4 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in LA, California.
Simon Pagenaud of France finished the 2016 Indy 500 just two-tenths of a second ahead of Alexander Rossi.
Lauv released his single 'I Like Me Better,' which earned platinum recognition in seven countries, including the USA.
The last episode of the 12 season TV sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory' aired, starring Jim Parson, Johnny Galecki, and Kaley Cuoco.
A new study was published in the journal 'Nature Geoscience,' which showed that the moon is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools.
Uber became a public company, opening on the New York Stock Exchange.
HBO's Game of Thrones aired the longest battle ever to be shown on screen.
Aretha Franklin, who died August 16, 2018, won the Pulitzer Prize.
Billie Eilish released her first-ever album, ''When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"
Michelle Obama's memoir 'Becoming' surpassed 10 million copies sold after four months of circulation.
Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao broke a world record by calculating Pi right down to 31.4 trillion digits!
Li Na became the first Asian-born tennis player to be entered into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's stated their word of the year was 'justice.'
French couture house Chanel ended its use of fur and exotic skins, following suit of bans by other companies.
The 7-year old Ryan of 'Ryan Toysreview' was announced as the year's highest-paid YouTube star earning $22 million.
The computer-animated film 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' premiered in Los Angeles.
The Japanese broadcaster NHK launched the world's first super-high definition 8K television channel.
Ariana Grande released her 'Thank U Next' music video.
Michelle Obama published her memoir 'Becoming.'
Nigel Richards won the World Scrabble Championships for the fourth time in a row with the word 'groutier.'
Rockstar Games' hit Wild-West series returned with the release of Red Dead Redemption 2.
The biographic drama movie 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' about Freddie Mercury, premiered at Wembley Arena in London, UK.
A 2,400-year-old shipwreck found in the Black Sea became the world's oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered.
A remake of the American horror slasher movie ''Halloween” was released starring Jamie Curtis.
Banksy's famous 'Girl With Balloon' was sold for £1 million at an auction, then the piece automatically self-destructed by running through a shredder fitted into the frame.
The Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care declared that over 250 people had died since 2011 taking selfies.
Designer Michael Kors purchased the luxury fashion brand Versace for $2.1 billion.
The World Surf League closed the gender pay gap by giving equal prizes to all genders.
Amazon became the second company in the world to be worth over $1 trillion.
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was laid to rest in Detroit as thousands turned up to pay tributes.
Video gamer David Katz shot two people dead, injured nine then committed suicide at an NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
Singer Steven Tyler ordered Donald Trump to stop playing their Aerosmith songs at rallies.
TikTok star Loren Gray released her first song under Capitol Records called 'My Story.'
A plane stolen from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport flew for over an hour before crashing on a wooded island.
