Google’s Play Store was first released five years ago today, on March 6th, 2012. To celebrate, Google released a roundup of the best selling apps, games, movies, music, and books in the US since its launch.
If you’ve consumed any culture or downloaded an app in the last five years, the results probably won’t surprise you. The most installed apps are topped by a seemingly obvious list of popular social networks, and while top songs look like a complication of the biggest radio earworms from the last half-decade. Notably, many of the songs, albums, and movies are all recent releases, which speaks both to the popularity of that content, but also to increased Android growth (and therefore, Play Store usage) in recent years. It’s an...
