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Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by ponker »

indigodaddy wrote: post #113
sacred_numbers wrote: post #105

Something to keep in mind: the top track in the world right now is ROCKSTAR, with about 5 million streams per day. The song lasts about 3 minutes, which means the song was streamed for 250k hours around the world. Spotify streams an average of 234 million hours per day, though, which means the number one song represents about 0.1% of the total. We have an unprecedented level of access to all sorts of different genres…

Interesting took me a bit to get what you were trying to say but of course it makes sense. Basically, 99% of people are listening to “anything besides ROCKSTAR”, it’s just that that “anything else” doesn’t overlap with too many others “anything else”

And very different from terrestrial radio where the top song was probably multiple percentage points of the total music airtime.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by ponker »

joegahona wrote: post #85
null0pointer wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Spotify is very public about the huge role that their recommendations play in listening behaviors. Sources are everywhere for anyone not too lazy to lift a finger.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by ponker »

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.

I think you’re misunderstanding the purpose of pop music nowadays. People are not sitting down in front of a hi-fi to listen to this music. It’s background audio for when they’re driving or texting or both, or a catchy bit of background for a TikTok video. It needs to have a beat that slaps, and not too much discernible verbal content which could interfere with other verbal tasks like sending a text.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by aksss »

wodenokoto wrote: post #129
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.

I believe that a very important aspect of making music for young people is to ensure that old people don't like it.

Consciously or not but agreed that it must necessarily be so

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by toxik »

indigodaddy wrote: post #113
sacred_numbers wrote: post #105

Something to keep in mind: the top track in the world right now is ROCKSTAR, with about 5 million streams per day. The song lasts about 3 minutes, which means the song was streamed for 250k hours around the world. Spotify streams an average of 234 million hours per day, though, which means the number one song represents about 0.1% of the total. We have an unprecedented level of access to all sorts of different genres…

Interesting took me a bit to get what you were trying to say but of course it makes sense. Basically, 99% of people are listening to “anything besides ROCKSTAR”, it’s just that that “anything else” doesn’t overlap with too many others “anything else”

I've referred to this as hyperfragmentation, you see it everywhere. You can find your match on anything -- if you like green boots displayed in a slightly warm light under a palm tree, you can find other people who do.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by runeks »

rdiddly wrote: post #47
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.

I would've thought we'd at least be "over" the auto-tune thing by now, but it's more popular than ever!

I don’t see why it would ever disappear. It’s essentially a device that transforms your vocal chord into an instrument. So you can sing roughly the tone you have in mind. That’s huge. I often think of melodies that I have no ability to reproduce on any instrument — but I can roughly hit the notes with my voice.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by yellowapple »

Some assorted notes / points of fascination:

- With the sole exceptions of Brazil and Argentina literally all of the "green" countries in Latin America have top songs with the Same. Exact. Beat. "One and-Three Four, One and-Three Four..." all throughout. And interestingly Spain, Italy, France, and Turkey have a very similar feel, albeit with some deviation. Not that I mind that beat (it's perfect for the club), but it's still interesting how little deviation there is.

- On that note, Brazil's top song is delightfully weird. Not a single drum except for a ludicrously-overdriven kick. I hate it but love it at the same time.

- Literally every predominantly-English-speaking country has the same exact top song. I would expect at least some variety, but nope, America's got their musical tastes by the balls, apparently.

- A surprisingly large amount of Europe has generally embraced American-style rap, though there are some exceptions (e.g. Spain, Italy, France, most of Eastern Europe).

- Poland's, on that note, has got a neat vaporwave/seapunk vibe to it that's pretty cool. Probably my favorite of the bunch.

- Japan's top song is exactly what I would expect Japan's top song to sound like, lol

- Indonesia's top song fuckin' slaps. Very close second-favorite.

- India managed to introduce me to Melanie Martinez, and I gotta say I'm a fan; very similar in theme, style, and catchiness to Lily Allen's "Not Fair", which is another favorite of mine.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by cosmodisk »

Archit3ch wrote: post #31
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…

Also, just because it's popular doesn't mean that people actually prefer that lifestyle. It reminds me of the opening scene in Office Space where a white man listens to rap during traffic on his way to a typical 9-to-5.

Some rap songs have very interesting lyrics but the whole environment attached to this genre makes it complete trash: all that hood style, bling bling, idiotic oversized cars,money,drugs,etc. Oh,and visible underware too.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by yellowapple »

Bayart wrote: post #94
tonywastaken wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that saddening? I'm glad to see that American hip hop is as popular as it is in those countries. Makes me even happier when it's an African American hip hop artist.

Just the steamroller of American mass-market pop culture crushing any diversity where it can find a footing. It's the cultural equivalent of a species making it into a new biome and wiping every species with the same niche. Americans find it flattering and even positive (because how couldn't be positive it the rest of the world becomes more like yourself ?) but it's really quite dramatic.

I mean, I guess it's cool that a large swath of the world seems to like listening to my country's music, but I was really hoping for something distinctly Australian or Irish or English or Icelandic or South African or what have you, and yet in all those cases it was the exact same song.

I do wonder if expanding the site to show, say, the top 5 instead of just the absolute top song would be a better indicator; as it stands, it feels like Rammstein was right: "We're all living in Amerika".

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