Most-streamed track of the day by country

Post by rsynnott » Fri, May 29, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

IMTDb wrote: post #30

tonywastaken wrote: post #24

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Just because at the moment there is an American song leading the charts doesn't mean that is always the case. You look at those lyrics on their own and they are just words that don't may not make sense. But if you look at the song as a whole, it's an artist's expression. And it seems to resonate with a lot of people around the world. Criticizing the song contradicts your value for "diversity of human cultures".

Nevertheless, my answer explains why some people find a bit sad that today, people in most countries all seem to resonate with the exact same artistic expression. And that this expression which resonates with so many people involve lyrics like : "My daughter a G, she saw me kill a nigga in front of her before the age of two" Which to me don't really sound so happy. So if that is really what moves most of the world to…

Post by rsynnott » Fri, May 29, 2020, 10:04 AM UTC

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Bayart wrote: post #94

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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 s…

Post by thaumasiotes » Fri, May 29, 2020, 10:25 AM UTC

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #97

progre wrote: post #82

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I didn't think tabulated data was copyrightable

Facts are not copyrightable, collections of facts are, thats why you cant copy google maps but you can go outside and write down the same data from your own observations. They have to be significant enough to be covered by copyright. A top 40 is maybe copyrighted.

Post by satvikpendem » Fri, May 29, 2020, 10:35 AM UTC

ajuc wrote: post #145

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…

I heard this being refered to as the Muhammad Effect. Tabloids love to write articles about most popular name for newborn kids in each country. And in countries with non-negligible Muslim minorities that name is often Muhammad (or some variation of it), because Muslims names have higher peak. So there might be 50 times as much kids with non-Muslim names, but they have roughly even spread between names and don't show…

Post by C1sc0cat » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:01 AM UTC

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For anyone else who is unfamiliar with this usage of "NPC", here is the definition from Urban Dictionary: > NPC - Modern (2018): A term now used to describe a 'Social Justice Warrior' or SJW, as their behavior mirrors that of traditional in game NPCs, in that their thoughts and actions are limited to their programming (programming being mainstream media in this case) and lacking any critical and independent thought p…

Also, NPC stands for "Non-Player Character", those that you can talk to in computer games but can't play as.