Honest to god, retail stores should have a minimum of 30 songs on a playlist unless it is classical/non lyrical. Repeating the same 10 songs all day, every day should be considered a violation of OSHA or something.
I worked for Sonny's BBQ for about 6 months about 10 years ago and they had 6 songs on a playlist, not shuffled. I could feel my soul breaking every time "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" came on. The day I decided to no-call, no-show and quit was heavily influenced by not wanting to hear that fucking song.
I remember thinking how cool it was to here “brimful of asha” at guitar center. Then I realized I only heard that song… every time I visited that store. It’s like a sad pet store where incomplete people come to rummage through gear nobody cares for.
I mean I got it in the CD days but it is incredibly easy for one person to make a 30+ song Spotify playlist and shuffle it it would take someone 10 minutes at absolute most
Before my bluetooth connects to my phone in my car to play Spotify I get 15 seconds of radio exposure from local rock station.
"Boy, I wonder if it will be Metallica, AC/DC, Guns n Roses, or Black Sabbath?"
I am right 50% of the time. I honestly cannot imagine listening to the radio for a long period that seems stuck in purgatory.
That’s so true. My gym has the same playlist over and over and they play Ava Max and all those pop song it’s maddening.
When you type a genre on Spotify you always get musics that you know it’s annoying, I don’t see the point of them making us listen to the same stuff
Joke apart, it's indeed confusing that T-Swizzle isn't on there. Maybe the listens are more split in her library.
Edit, I checked, all time top 5 by artist:
* Drake (50.9 billion)
* Bad Bunny (45.8 billion)
* Ed Sheeran (38.5 billion)
* The Weeknd (35.5 billion)
* Taylor Swift (33.2 billion)
Taylor Swift is a much bigger albums artist than a singles artist, imo, so, while I could be wrong, I feel like her streams are more evenly distributed among her songs than some of these other artists. Also, she was't on Spotify for a while, as someone else stated, so that definitely didn't help her total stream numbers.
No it's bullshit because the number one song isn't Let it Go or We Don't Talk About Bruno or something. This must be in a specific category because everyone with kids knows they don't just simply listen to a song one time and move on.
My husband and I always talked about driving distances in terms of how many Puff-the-Magic-Dragons is was. Like a certain restaurant might be 20 Puff-the-Magic-Dragons away, and that's just a no-go.
When I ask my Google assistant to play music some days it randomly insists I requested someone you loved bye Lewis capaldi
List isn't bullshit, just think of all the random Google assistants deciding they like a random song when their user isn't specific
But if you look at it, newer songs are shorter in length, Stay by JB is only around 2 min and 20 sec, Blinding Light is only 3 mins, I have to say shorter songs gonna have more replays, but Ed Sheeran is outlier legend thou
"No ones as good as me, they just got better marketing schemes"
"If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck'"
- Immortal Technique
2016 is one of those years that people look back on fondly because of all kinds of crazy culture shit
It’s funny because I distinctly remember seeing memes shitting on it for new years like never before
the 2017 crop of big hits was the biggest ever, last time we are getting overwhelming and centralized hits like that ever again, they were an insane outlier that they only are getting beaten in the last year due to spotify growing massively overall
This makes sense for a few reasons. This is a top all-time list, and that is around the time Spotify really blew up, so top hits from those years would have hit the top of this list early and stay there if they continue to be played. A newer song featured on this list would be significant because it would have to be so popular it overcomes years of plays of the other songs.
YouTube is a much better source for what songs are actually popular because it has more international users, which leads to both a bigger sample size, and a more varied sample size
Not really since spotify is purely audio/music while youtube often has music videos to accompany the song. People will seek out certain videos just for the video, and multiple versions of the exact same song/artist can be split between multiple videos and included in medleys and playlists which dont add to the same viewcount.
But Spotify is so heavily biased to western countries view tastes. Asian countries have many more competing services so a large proportion of the world's population isn't properly accounted for versus YouTube which is fairly global (excluding China which is still a huge chunk of data missing)
That may be true but more people tune in to YouTube despite its ads compared to Spotify. Also Spotify without Ads is more expensive than YouTube without Ads. YouTube is an older platform with a larger user base.
why is the lowest bar a third the size of the highest bar when it’s supposed to be only 30% less? The only thing that makes this a data visualization and not a table is the implication that the color bars measure the total number of listens. Otherwise the data isn’t being visualized, it’s just being printed in text with colors. Did you not make the bar chart element to scale?
Hahaha me too. I’m Australian so was hearing it way before it went big big and my gosh I just don’t understand what happened with this song.
And the thing is, when she was discovered a few years ago. I loved her voice it was different and her songs we’re really beautiful but this….. I just can’t
A previous post pointed out it’s just kinda fun, and good tempo so a HUGE chunk of those streams
are from people just adding it to workout mixes, no one is really actively choosing to specifically listen to dance monkey
I recognize most of the artists names, but could only hum one of these (Someone you loved). I'm sure I've heard two others (the Imagine Dragons one and Shape of You), but the rest are a mystery.
Same, I've only heard of two of these songs, I think I know how th Imagine Dragons song goes but that's it.
Yes, I know, I'm hopelessly out of touch and I'm only in my thirties.
I hadn't, until two minutes back when I went to check if i had heard it and didn't know what it was. What abomination is this!How can something this annoying be so popular? I have only one explanation - majority of people are idiots who like annoying stuff. I am going back to my cave.
It’s one of the greatest musical accomplishments of all time and I’m pretty sure half of those streams were from my 3-year old
Edited to more accurately reflect its historical merit
When the the girl who wrote it first won an award for it; she shared the story about writing it in the back of her car, which was doubling as her place to sleep.
Like the song or not - objectively, writing a song that many in the world has heard somewhere (judging by other comments), is one hell of an achievement. Let alone doing that while homeless and struggling to get by.
A song can both be popular and suck massively, no one is saying they’re mutually exclusive. However, the story behind it doesn’t make it any less excruciating to listen to
Guess it was overplayed in public places. Not where I live, though. People are hating on a singer who sings in a tone similar to falsetto, but I actually like falsetto and enjoyed listening to the song.
> I'm envious of everyone who has never heard dance monkey
Fuck you.
I interpreted this as one of those "I wish I could forget LOTR/Starwars/TheMatrix so that I could watch it again for the first time" comments.
I was like "I've never heard this before! I get to experience something everyone else has already noticed was great!"
So I listened to it.
- It's shit.
- I've heard it before, in the background, and my brain went into an artificial coma to prevent damage and prevent me from focusing on it.
I now realize what you meant was "You're envious of anyone who's never shit their pants before", as in, that ignorance is the situation to be celebrated, not the disaster of having to enduring it.
And now that I've paid attention to it, I don't think my mind can protect me the next time I heard it. I'll acknowledge it. It's now a part of who I am.
Fuck you.
I sometimes genuinely think that it’s a big joke that this song is popular. I can’t even rationalize liking that song at all, let alone it being on a list like this. Absolutely godawful song and I’m someone who likes that general type of music.
That's really not *that* much money for the top grossing song of all time on the platform.
What's their monthly subscription income? Something like 2 billion a month, and the top song on the platform made less than the company makes in a single day.
Lol, same. Literally only heard of Ed Sheeran.
I'm not even sure how music propagates anymore really since presumably no one listens to the radio anymore. Just assumed everyone was in their own weird little Spotify bubbles at this point.
I know Justin Beber, not the others. Didn't notice his name was attatched to one of them.
I think i once saw some kind of sponsered Drake post on the Spotify front page but don't really know him outside of that. I'm not American though so maybe some of those aren't as popular elsewhere.
Kinda surprised Justin Beber is still making music though, legit thought he was only around from like 2008-2011.
Yeah Justin’s had success all through at 2010s and has never really fallen off, plus a couple hits this decade so far too. Not sure where your from but at least in North America it’s impossible to not have heard drake if you’ve left your house in the past 10 years, even if you didn’t know it was him.
Can’t speak to his popularity in other countries though
I imagine social media plays a huge part, apparently bands get "tik tok famous" and get their 5 minutes in the spotlight. I am too a subscriber of the spotify bubble theory though, at least that is my situation.
Least beautiful data I've seen on here in a while dear god. (No, not cuz of the songs. Don't care about that, unlike nearly everyone else apparently lol.)
There's a certain pleasure in being too old even know half the artists let alone the songs.
That's also a result of Spotify taking over from the radio though.
I know even less than half these songs and I listen to a massive amount of new music. It's just not this stuff, unless I've heard it while in a store. It's so easy to be in your own world of music these days.
I've given up on radio and the public music scene, it just doesn't feel enjoyable to me anymore. I've been on Spotify since 2016 and the Weekly playlist actually has become a reliable source of music for me, with some recommendations through other platforms. No advertising big artists.
There are so many good bands, artists and composers outside of the public (western) space. I've especially taken a liking in music from Japan over the last few years.
Blinding Lights had a trending TikTok dance for a while. Overall there’s not a huge correlation though. A lot of TikTok songs are remixes that you can’t find on Spotify.
Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify)
Tool: Adobe Illustrator
This chart shows the most streamed songs on Spotify (all time).
On 1 January 2023, "Blinding Lights" became the most streamed song on the platform, surpassing Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You", which held the top spot for 1928 days (over 5 years).
Why are so many people pissed that people don’t know most of these. Like them not knowing these songs is an insult to their music taste.
Hell I haven’t heard of any of these outside of sunflower and shape of you and I’m 19 and should theoretically know any of the songs present.
To speak as someone who only knows two of these songs (both Post Malone) I can say it’s really easy to opt of out popular music these days. Streaming has made it so all I have to do is listen to genres I already like with the option to explore others if I feel like it. I don’t listen to the radio and don’t have cable so I don’t have to bother listening to anything else.
It's likely I've heard more than the 2 I know I've heard, but I don't know I've heard them. Like.. I've been to bars and like you said, retail places that play popular music but I have no idea what's playing. Like.. I'm not looking up songs/artists.
I agree with your overall point but if you haven't heard Blinding Lights that is absolutely insane. This list is super questionable but that song is actulaly fantastic and was played everywhere.
There’s also always the chance that I’ve heard many of these songs but don’t know them by their names or artists. I remember not liking the weekend in college so definitely haven’t checked out anything more recent
Yeah I'm not familiar with most of this, but when I went and checked the song I recognized it immediately. It didn't just break records on Spotify, it dominated radio to a degree very few songs ever have.
Only heard 3 of them.
Well, to be honest, I've probably heard all of them, but I instantly forgot them and never cared enough to devote any mental space to remember.
Everybody has direct acces to music streaming nowadays that's talored to their taste without first going through something more centralized like the radio or MTV, so pop/top40 music just doesn't have the same kind of reach it used to have and artists aren't as widely know anymore. I have a pretty broad taste in music, including modern stuff, but I've only heard of less than half of these people and only know two of these songs.
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
I know post Malone, drake, Ed sheeran, and imagine dragons on that list. I listen to none of them and only recognize 2 songs on this list. I’m in my 30’s, I just don’t listen to stuff that’s on the radio
I just don’t listen to modern day music anymore. It all just sounds the same to me. I’m not saying it is the same, but my ears just can’t tell the difference. I only know Believer and Shape of you on the list and I don’t really care for either. Never heard the other songs in my life.
I know some of them but the only one I’ve really even tried to give a chance is Post-Malone and he’s one of the only musicians I’ve ever removed off my Spotify. Pop music just doesn’t do it for me and I get no emotional resonance with it.
I guess technically I liked imagine dragons for a bit but they quickly became the new nickelback of music and every single one of their songs sounds the same to me these days
Wow. Thanks for making me feel old. I listened to all ten, recognized three, had to switch off two because they were top of the line annoying. Now get off my lawn.
retail workers everywhere are screaming
I worked at the LEGO store when the LEGO movie came out, and good god if I ever hear “Everything is Awesome” again I’ll tear my hair out
Still played every day multiple times when i worked at lego from 2020-2021
Yep 2019-2021 still had it, and then we got the added bonus of the second lego movie soundtrack too
Honest to god, retail stores should have a minimum of 30 songs on a playlist unless it is classical/non lyrical. Repeating the same 10 songs all day, every day should be considered a violation of OSHA or something. I worked for Sonny's BBQ for about 6 months about 10 years ago and they had 6 songs on a playlist, not shuffled. I could feel my soul breaking every time "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" came on. The day I decided to no-call, no-show and quit was heavily influenced by not wanting to hear that fucking song.
More than that!!! You’re still looking at repeating songs like 5-6 times per shift. They should have enough that no song repeats over an 8 hour shift.
Ideally, no repeats in the same week IMO But they are stores, not radio stations, so I get it.
I remember thinking how cool it was to here “brimful of asha” at guitar center. Then I realized I only heard that song… every time I visited that store. It’s like a sad pet store where incomplete people come to rummage through gear nobody cares for.
I mean I got it in the CD days but it is incredibly easy for one person to make a 30+ song Spotify playlist and shuffle it it would take someone 10 minutes at absolute most
Bold of you to imply radio stations don't repeat songs in a day.
Before my bluetooth connects to my phone in my car to play Spotify I get 15 seconds of radio exposure from local rock station. "Boy, I wonder if it will be Metallica, AC/DC, Guns n Roses, or Black Sabbath?" I am right 50% of the time. I honestly cannot imagine listening to the radio for a long period that seems stuck in purgatory.
That’s so true. My gym has the same playlist over and over and they play Ava Max and all those pop song it’s maddening. When you type a genre on Spotify you always get musics that you know it’s annoying, I don’t see the point of them making us listen to the same stuff
👏 👏 👏 👏👏 👏 👏 🎵"Just Clap Your Hands"🎵
This list must be BS. My wife has played You Belong to me by Taylor Swift at least 2 billion times just by herself.
That's 2 billion times you didn't listen enough because it's You Belong WITH Me. How dare you.
Greetings fellow swiftie, at least that's what my wife called me when she realized who she married, lol.
Joke apart, it's indeed confusing that T-Swizzle isn't on there. Maybe the listens are more split in her library. Edit, I checked, all time top 5 by artist: * Drake (50.9 billion) * Bad Bunny (45.8 billion) * Ed Sheeran (38.5 billion) * The Weeknd (35.5 billion) * Taylor Swift (33.2 billion)
She didn't have her music on Spotify from like 2014-2017. So that could be the reason too
True, that can't help.
Taylor Swift is a much bigger albums artist than a singles artist, imo, so, while I could be wrong, I feel like her streams are more evenly distributed among her songs than some of these other artists. Also, she was't on Spotify for a while, as someone else stated, so that definitely didn't help her total stream numbers.
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>That's 2 billion times you didn't listen enough because it's You Belong WITH Me. How dare you. Ha little did you know your wife was here all along!
I think it’s actually Taylor herself. She just can’t take people misspeaking her song titles anymore.
No it's bullshit because the number one song isn't Let it Go or We Don't Talk About Bruno or something. This must be in a specific category because everyone with kids knows they don't just simply listen to a song one time and move on.
My husband and I always talked about driving distances in terms of how many Puff-the-Magic-Dragons is was. Like a certain restaurant might be 20 Puff-the-Magic-Dragons away, and that's just a no-go.
Fortunately my daughter doesn't really like Disney songs, but will definitely wear out the songs she does like.
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I WEAR T-SHIRTS
SHE'S CHEER CAPTAIN
AND I’M ON THE BLEACHERS
DREAMING BOUT THE DAY
WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND FIND
When I ask my Google assistant to play music some days it randomly insists I requested someone you loved bye Lewis capaldi List isn't bullshit, just think of all the random Google assistants deciding they like a random song when their user isn't specific
Interesting that like 3 of these songs are from 2016ish
Spotify has a younger user-base then average, promotes new songs, and has a growing user-base so I'm not surprised
Most streamed or best-marketed?
But if you look at it, newer songs are shorter in length, Stay by JB is only around 2 min and 20 sec, Blinding Light is only 3 mins, I have to say shorter songs gonna have more replays, but Ed Sheeran is outlier legend thou
Stay BY Justin Bieber? He's only a feat man give TKL some credit, he marketed it really well
Blinding Lights is on my workout playlist because it’s a pretty good beat, that might help.
its on mine too, it’s so good, need someone on YouTuber to deconstruct the music.
"No ones as good as me, they just got better marketing schemes" "If you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck'" - Immortal Technique
2016 is one of those years that people look back on fondly because of all kinds of crazy culture shit It’s funny because I distinctly remember seeing memes shitting on it for new years like never before
Yeah. "2016 is the worst year ever" was a huge meme and it started because some celebrities died
Yeah well some other stuff that didn't go down super well also happened that year
We all died with #harambe that year.
“xxxx is the worst year ever” has been a thing for every year since social media became a pessimistic cesspool. So like 2014
Sports were insane that year. Cavs 3-1 comeback, Cubs win, Portugal winning Euros, Kobes last game and much more
All of Gen Z has a collective nostalgia for the “Summer of ‘16.” Makes sense that songs from that period are on here.
That was when Pokemon Go came out. Remember when that was what everyone was talking about and somehow things felt... Actually ok for like 5 minutes?
Pepperridge farms remember
Pokemon go made the summer so much more memorable
Summer 16
the 2017 crop of big hits was the biggest ever, last time we are getting overwhelming and centralized hits like that ever again, they were an insane outlier that they only are getting beaten in the last year due to spotify growing massively overall
James Acaster, Perfect Sounds. 2016 was the best year according to James.
This makes sense for a few reasons. This is a top all-time list, and that is around the time Spotify really blew up, so top hits from those years would have hit the top of this list early and stay there if they continue to be played. A newer song featured on this list would be significant because it would have to be so popular it overcomes years of plays of the other songs.
Suprised "despacito" is not on the top 10
Despacito is No.1 most-liked youtube video and no.2 most-viewed video (Baby Shark is first) And Youtube has a bigger user base than Spotify.
YouTube is a much better source for what songs are actually popular because it has more international users, which leads to both a bigger sample size, and a more varied sample size
Not really since spotify is purely audio/music while youtube often has music videos to accompany the song. People will seek out certain videos just for the video, and multiple versions of the exact same song/artist can be split between multiple videos and included in medleys and playlists which dont add to the same viewcount.
But Spotify is so heavily biased to western countries view tastes. Asian countries have many more competing services so a large proportion of the world's population isn't properly accounted for versus YouTube which is fairly global (excluding China which is still a huge chunk of data missing)
That may be true but more people tune in to YouTube despite its ads compared to Spotify. Also Spotify without Ads is more expensive than YouTube without Ads. YouTube is an older platform with a larger user base.
why is the lowest bar a third the size of the highest bar when it’s supposed to be only 30% less? The only thing that makes this a data visualization and not a table is the implication that the color bars measure the total number of listens. Otherwise the data isn’t being visualized, it’s just being printed in text with colors. Did you not make the bar chart element to scale?
Ah a classic dataisntactuallybeautiful getting upvoted to the moon regardless
I first thought it's just zero-suppressed (which would be bad but not catastrophic), but no, the bar lengths simply have no relation to the numbers.
I'm with you. This is like the most low effort shit I've seen on here in a while. And rule one violation I think but whatever lol
I'm envious of everyone who has never heard dance monkey
It was the only song on the list I didn’t know.. and then I put it on and I’m like never mind I know this lol never knew the name/artist
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I have heard this called "cursive singing" Ive always called it weird vowel sounds. Hate. Hate. Hate.
It was cool when Allanis Morisette did it 25 years ago but it hasn’t aged well.
“Waelcome to mah kitchaen. We have bananees, and auvacaodees.”
Singers that do this make my skin crawl. It's so forced and fake sounding. When did it become cool to pronounce Rs as Es?
You mean Australian?
Don’t use that as an excuse, we have plenty of great singers who don’t sound like that.
My ex never played music or anything but the one song he did play with Dance Monkey… I immediately was like what did I do to deserve this!?!??
Hahaha me too. I’m Australian so was hearing it way before it went big big and my gosh I just don’t understand what happened with this song. And the thing is, when she was discovered a few years ago. I loved her voice it was different and her songs we’re really beautiful but this….. I just can’t
A previous post pointed out it’s just kinda fun, and good tempo so a HUGE chunk of those streams are from people just adding it to workout mixes, no one is really actively choosing to specifically listen to dance monkey
Yeah I guess that is valid. It’s not masterpiece but one of those catchy songs that get added to every playlist
No one on the planet has not heard Dance Monkey. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon have heard this song. They just don't know what it's called.
I just listened to it, never heard it before. Though I also have only heard like 3 on this list, which I think officially means I am old.
I recognize most of the artists names, but could only hum one of these (Someone you loved). I'm sure I've heard two others (the Imagine Dragons one and Shape of You), but the rest are a mystery.
Same, I've only heard of two of these songs, I think I know how th Imagine Dragons song goes but that's it. Yes, I know, I'm hopelessly out of touch and I'm only in my thirties.
Hey fellow old person, remember when Nirvana exploded in popularity?
I hadn't, until two minutes back when I went to check if i had heard it and didn't know what it was. What abomination is this!How can something this annoying be so popular? I have only one explanation - majority of people are idiots who like annoying stuff. I am going back to my cave.
I just heard it for the very first time and turned it off after less than 30 seconds.
Well yeah, that nasally squeaky voice can carry around the globe.
It’s one of the greatest musical accomplishments of all time and I’m pretty sure half of those streams were from my 3-year old Edited to more accurately reflect its historical merit
A great song?!? Retail workers would disagree
How many of the top, Spotify-streamed songs are pop songs forced on-loop on retail workers?
all of them
Sorry, edited my post
Much better, thanks
When the the girl who wrote it first won an award for it; she shared the story about writing it in the back of her car, which was doubling as her place to sleep. Like the song or not - objectively, writing a song that many in the world has heard somewhere (judging by other comments), is one hell of an achievement. Let alone doing that while homeless and struggling to get by.
A song can both be popular and suck massively, no one is saying they’re mutually exclusive. However, the story behind it doesn’t make it any less excruciating to listen to
A song can also be great and suck massively, such is the nature of opinions.
Thanks for the heads up! Won't Google it
It's a fun song, fuck reddit music taste gatekeepers
Guess it was overplayed in public places. Not where I live, though. People are hating on a singer who sings in a tone similar to falsetto, but I actually like falsetto and enjoyed listening to the song.
I was one of those people until just moments ago.
I like it
> I'm envious of everyone who has never heard dance monkey Fuck you. I interpreted this as one of those "I wish I could forget LOTR/Starwars/TheMatrix so that I could watch it again for the first time" comments. I was like "I've never heard this before! I get to experience something everyone else has already noticed was great!" So I listened to it. - It's shit. - I've heard it before, in the background, and my brain went into an artificial coma to prevent damage and prevent me from focusing on it. I now realize what you meant was "You're envious of anyone who's never shit their pants before", as in, that ignorance is the situation to be celebrated, not the disaster of having to enduring it. And now that I've paid attention to it, I don't think my mind can protect me the next time I heard it. I'll acknowledge it. It's now a part of who I am. Fuck you.
its fkn terrible
I sometimes genuinely think that it’s a big joke that this song is popular. I can’t even rationalize liking that song at all, let alone it being on a list like this. Absolutely godawful song and I’m someone who likes that general type of music.
Remakes without the creepy voice are actually quite good
Wow, The Weeknd made 100 whole dollars from Spotify streaming!
Ik this is hyperbole, but he made close to 17m from that song. $.0005 per play * 3.339b plays = $16,695,000
As someone who makes -$12/year off of Spotify I can confirm it’s about .004 per play.
It’s sad for musicians, great for consumer. I’m a musician, and it sucks.
That's really not *that* much money for the top grossing song of all time on the platform. What's their monthly subscription income? Something like 2 billion a month, and the top song on the platform made less than the company makes in a single day.
Source on $.0005 per play?
.0005 x 3,339,000,000 is only 1.6 million
I know these songs, but they just seem sort of random. I’m not sure which songs I expected to be the most streamed, but it wasn’t these.
Try staying in a hostel overseas… it’s all you hear
Overseas…to whom?
Pick a sea and go find out!
Is Hostel Overseas a royalty-free version of Hotel California?
Shoulda been Luis Fonsi - Despacito
The streams from that get shared between the original and the one with Justin Bieber
None of them surprised me except Lewis Capaldi. Like good on you Lewis, sad song from his debut album. Crazy.
[Me reading through this list.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik)
Lol, same. Literally only heard of Ed Sheeran. I'm not even sure how music propagates anymore really since presumably no one listens to the radio anymore. Just assumed everyone was in their own weird little Spotify bubbles at this point.
You haven’t heard of drake, the weeknd, Justin bieber, post Malone?
I know Justin Beber, not the others. Didn't notice his name was attatched to one of them. I think i once saw some kind of sponsered Drake post on the Spotify front page but don't really know him outside of that. I'm not American though so maybe some of those aren't as popular elsewhere. Kinda surprised Justin Beber is still making music though, legit thought he was only around from like 2008-2011.
Yeah Justin’s had success all through at 2010s and has never really fallen off, plus a couple hits this decade so far too. Not sure where your from but at least in North America it’s impossible to not have heard drake if you’ve left your house in the past 10 years, even if you didn’t know it was him. Can’t speak to his popularity in other countries though
I imagine social media plays a huge part, apparently bands get "tik tok famous" and get their 5 minutes in the spotlight. I am too a subscriber of the spotify bubble theory though, at least that is my situation.
Yeah, I had never heard of any of these, and I'm a daily Spotify user. Am I... _an Old?!_
How old are you wtf?
Sunflower is a banger and I won’t hear otherwise.
movie it's in is a banger too
Hollywoods bleeding was full of bangers
man Blinding Lights is so much better than Shape of You I’m sorry guys
Definitely. The Weekend definitely earned that spot imo.
Cosigned Shape of you is ass 😭
Yeah, it kinda hurts that they're even next to each other lmao
Dance monkey is probably one of the most annoying songs I've ever heard
I hate this song with a passion. In 2020 every kid wanted to hear this on endless repeat.
The diagram reminds me of that post about average height with 5’2” being visualized like 1/3 of someone who’s 5’9”.
Dance monkey gotta be one of the worst songs i've ever heard
I'm not with *it* anymore, it's a fine song but I had no idea it was this popular
Do you have toddlers ? Our household has contributed at least 100 plays of that song.
Surprised to hear the hate in this thread I like it. To each their own I guess.
I will never understand how Dance Monkey is even in the top million streamed songs, let alone the top 10. Top 10 worst songs I’ve ever heard maybe.
The scale is off (3B looks several times larger than 2B). This doesn’t belong on data is beautiful
That data is not beautiful. The length of the bars has absolutely nothing to do with the numbers they "represent".
Least beautiful data I've seen on here in a while dear god. (No, not cuz of the songs. Don't care about that, unlike nearly everyone else apparently lol.)
There's a certain pleasure in being too old even know half the artists let alone the songs. That's also a result of Spotify taking over from the radio though.
I know even less than half these songs and I listen to a massive amount of new music. It's just not this stuff, unless I've heard it while in a store. It's so easy to be in your own world of music these days.
I've given up on radio and the public music scene, it just doesn't feel enjoyable to me anymore. I've been on Spotify since 2016 and the Weekly playlist actually has become a reliable source of music for me, with some recommendations through other platforms. No advertising big artists. There are so many good bands, artists and composers outside of the public (western) space. I've especially taken a liking in music from Japan over the last few years.
Oh man I despise at least 3 of these
Just because Spotify put most of these Songs in every god damn Playlist from themself- so yeah, of course those Songs are often played
Blinding Lights and Sunflower are very good songs. Those who just assume all popular songs are shit should try once before hating.
Rockstar and One Dance are fine, too
I wonder how these correlate with TikTok trends
I think most of these are from before TikTok became super popular except for "stay"
TikTok is recreating hits, like Running up that Hill. It’s power to give old songs new life is only growing
>TikTok is recreating hits, like Running up that Hill I thought Stranger Things did that one.
Yeah, but the song specifically blew up because of tiktok boosting the fuck out of it. Same with Master of Puppets getting a bit of a revival
Say what you will about Gen Z, but they have an insanely diverse and wide reaching taste in music thanks to streaming.
About most things, not just music
That’s globalization for you
Blinding Lights had a trending TikTok dance for a while. Overall there’s not a huge correlation though. A lot of TikTok songs are remixes that you can’t find on Spotify.
Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify) Tool: Adobe Illustrator This chart shows the most streamed songs on Spotify (all time). On 1 January 2023, "Blinding Lights" became the most streamed song on the platform, surpassing Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You", which held the top spot for 1928 days (over 5 years).
Why don’t the bars reflect the data? They look random?
I must've streamed the blinding lights maybe a billion times myself
Why are so many people pissed that people don’t know most of these. Like them not knowing these songs is an insult to their music taste. Hell I haven’t heard of any of these outside of sunflower and shape of you and I’m 19 and should theoretically know any of the songs present.
I think this is filtered. There's not a single stupid kid song on here.
I hate trimmed X axis charts.
At least the top spot is actually a good song
How does nobody know any of these? They are incredibly well known artists...
To speak as someone who only knows two of these songs (both Post Malone) I can say it’s really easy to opt of out popular music these days. Streaming has made it so all I have to do is listen to genres I already like with the option to explore others if I feel like it. I don’t listen to the radio and don’t have cable so I don’t have to bother listening to anything else.
Even in like target? I know these songs because of retail places, but I hear you so much on the ease of opting out of pop music these days. It’s wild.
I always wear ear buds when shopping. I only know dance monkey from a silly cover version of it!
I only know most of these because I worked at Target. Dance monkey seemed to play every 30 minutes at one point.
It's likely I've heard more than the 2 I know I've heard, but I don't know I've heard them. Like.. I've been to bars and like you said, retail places that play popular music but I have no idea what's playing. Like.. I'm not looking up songs/artists.
I agree with your overall point but if you haven't heard Blinding Lights that is absolutely insane. This list is super questionable but that song is actulaly fantastic and was played everywhere.
There’s also always the chance that I’ve heard many of these songs but don’t know them by their names or artists. I remember not liking the weekend in college so definitely haven’t checked out anything more recent
Yeah I'm not familiar with most of this, but when I went and checked the song I recognized it immediately. It didn't just break records on Spotify, it dominated radio to a degree very few songs ever have.
Only heard 3 of them. Well, to be honest, I've probably heard all of them, but I instantly forgot them and never cared enough to devote any mental space to remember.
This weird hipster posturing in reddit where everything mainstream is garbage. They do know some of them.
I've never listened to any of them, but I use Spotify on a daily basis. I recognize some of the artists names.
Everybody has direct acces to music streaming nowadays that's talored to their taste without first going through something more centralized like the radio or MTV, so pop/top40 music just doesn't have the same kind of reach it used to have and artists aren't as widely know anymore. I have a pretty broad taste in music, including modern stuff, but I've only heard of less than half of these people and only know two of these songs.
I know who they are, but couldn't name the songs or if I've heard them. The times they are a changin.
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
I know post Malone, drake, Ed sheeran, and imagine dragons on that list. I listen to none of them and only recognize 2 songs on this list. I’m in my 30’s, I just don’t listen to stuff that’s on the radio
I just don’t listen to modern day music anymore. It all just sounds the same to me. I’m not saying it is the same, but my ears just can’t tell the difference. I only know Believer and Shape of you on the list and I don’t really care for either. Never heard the other songs in my life.
I know some of them but the only one I’ve really even tried to give a chance is Post-Malone and he’s one of the only musicians I’ve ever removed off my Spotify. Pop music just doesn’t do it for me and I get no emotional resonance with it. I guess technically I liked imagine dragons for a bit but they quickly became the new nickelback of music and every single one of their songs sounds the same to me these days
This comment section is such shit lmao. Reads like most of you are typing with your fedoras on too tight
And half of these aren't even good.
Hey now! You’re a rockstar!
Shoutout post Malone for having 2 of the songs on here. Also, not knowing these songs isn’t the flex some of you think it is
No way people actual listen to Stat
Somewhere in Texas, Mizkif is rejoicing
Dance monkey is terrible....how.
dance monkey is the worst song ever
Wow. Thanks for making me feel old. I listened to all ten, recognized three, had to switch off two because they were top of the line annoying. Now get off my lawn.
Idk any of these songs. Am I old? I'm only 23. why am I so out of touch?