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Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by pixxel »

hedora wrote: post #64
derefr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure you'd say that about songs from whatever decade you grew up in, if those could be sorted by "most listened to" as well. Top40 is already pablum, but it still has some tiny amount of curation (and therefore elitist dictation of taste) driving it. This chart, meanwhile, represents pure populist sentiment—it's "what the people want to hear." And populist sentiment has always been pretty much all of those thi…

From a quick spot check of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_number-one... I’d say the quality of “most listened to” music peaked in the 80’s, with each decade that followed being the worst ever. Most of my favorite artists are from the 90’s-2010’s, with a few exceptions scattered in the 40’s, 70’s and 80’s. It could be that music got more diverse in the 90’s, and the billboard chart stopped bei…

Intrigued that you mentioned the 1940s. Glenn Miller?

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by progre »

Exmoor wrote: post #39
fein wrote: post #22

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And they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments. I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is. I liste…

I have some spreadsheets* that have every charting hit on the billboard charts. I haven't gone through the general charts that much, but I'd say the ones I have gone through are really surprising. We tend to think we know what the most popular music from the past is, but if you look at the singles that charted the highest throughout modern history you'll find a lot of forgettable crap. *Technically the data is copyri…

I didn't think tabulated data was copyrightable

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by raytracer »

jariel wrote: post #68
holografix wrote: post #13

I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip! Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.

You're not old. Or maybe a little. Music on the charts is absolutely getting worse due to globalization, attention span, production, competitive marketing, margins, video/image/brand before song, definitely removal of the 'gatekeepers', lower barriers to entry, mass-market/direct audience. Yes, yes, a lot of pop music has always been crap, but 'this time it's different'. Truly. It's more derivative, fewer chords, lyr…

> Also - one big difference - most 'good music' today is not very 'up' or 'hit' oriented.

+1. Pop music is just a genre. There is plenty of other new stuff out there. Just gotta put in the effort to find it and enjoy it.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by joegahona »

null0pointer wrote: post #79
derefr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure you'd say that about songs from whatever decade you grew up in, if those could be sorted by "most listened to" as well. Top40 is already pablum, but it still has some tiny amount of curation (and therefore elitist dictation of taste) driving it. This chart, meanwhile, represents pure populist sentiment—it's "what the people want to hear." And populist sentiment has always been pretty much all of those thi…

I don't think it's fair to say it's pure populist though. A _huge_ portion of Spotify users don't actively select their music, they just select an autogenerated (or even manually curated) playlist to go in the background. So the most streamed will inevitably be songs from whichever record company has bought algorithmic favour from Spotify.

Do you have sources to back up these claims?

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Post by yyy888sss »

jariel wrote: post #69
derefr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure you'd say that about songs from whatever decade you grew up in, if those could be sorted by "most listened to" as well. Top40 is already pablum, but it still has some tiny amount of curation (and therefore elitist dictation of taste) driving it. This chart, meanwhile, represents pure populist sentiment—it's "what the people want to hear." And populist sentiment has always been pretty much all of those thi…

Yes but: 1) Chart toppers from previous eras are still listenable. Almost nothing on the charts today will be listenable in 2 years. Out-of-touch grandparents in the 1960s could have been convinced to listen to the Beatles. Nobody of a certain age will put up with Top 40 today. 2) It's not quite as democratic as you'd imagine. There are promotions, placements, trends, people sucking kids into clicks in big herds. A m…

Plenty of Top 40 is still generic easy listening for anyone. Ed Sheeran - Perfect is the 8th most streamed song on Spotify and could have been released in basically any era. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk is the 6th most viewed video on Youtube and sounds straight out to the 70s to me.

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Post by stubish »

PetahNZ wrote: post #46
alejogutierrez wrote: post #45

Agree with many comments. If music were the way to describe society everything went to the hell. The problem is not only the computers usage in the music, is that in terms of composition, lyrics, emotions, everything sucks. Any of these songs are crap that someone with the most basic knowledge on a DAW could make. "Roses" which is the less shity song sounds like a crap version of "Moonlight" from Gaullin. It would be…

Wow... just let people enjoy things.

Or let people know what they are missing?

I've always hoped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-oBpLZ0WY was genuine, someone listening to Led Zeppelin for the first time. There is a lot of good music out there, including current releases, but Spotify doesn't seem to be how to learn about it. So many with their tastes still set on 'default'.

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Post by gabruu »

nunez wrote: post #66

Stream count is super low for India. I don’t think Spotify is used there. From my limited experience, YouTube and local apps seem to be way more popular.

to many competitors for spotify Gaana, Saavn, Youtube, Apple, Amazon, hungama, Jio, Wynk, but it only launched a yearish ago and nearly has all local music + excellent algorithm to find songs, so will not take time to catch up.
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