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Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by polytely » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:14 AM UTC

I love complaining about 'kids these days' & their music tastes as much as the next guy, but don't lose sight of the fact that we now have more access to amazing music than ever before. You just have to find it. I thought I would share some cool links that help me find music.

NPR Tiny Desk concerts are one of my favourite ways to discover new music. Their audio team is so great the recording often sound better than the studio versions:

Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferZnZ0_rSM

Snarky Puppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzu33BfRHE&t=107s

KEXP has an amazing YouTube channel where they post full performances of an amazingly diverse array of artists. Discovered my currently favourite artist ADHD via them:

ADHD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHSpy_Iy_g

Public Service Broadcasting:

https://youtu.be/mScesON6Kx4?t=41

Paste Magazine also has some really great sets:

Kate Tempest:

https://youtu.be/gM4aPRiZJbk?t=57

Avishai Cohen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Bulmk2MzY

There is so much going on that doesn't involve Spotify at all, for example funk band Vulfpeck sold out Madison Square Garden without any charting songs, manager or big label, just by having a passionate internet fandom. They recorded it on like a gimballed iphone, It's glorious: https://youtu.be/rv4wf7bzfFE?t=591

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by im3w1l » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:27 AM UTC

freetime2 wrote: post #101

[deleted] wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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…

I think that's wrong. An SJW's life revolves around politics and they have extreme opinions. An NPC doesn't really care about politics. Their involvement is restricted to repeating slogans they heard someone else say. Like game NPC's they all say the same thing, and if you probe further there is no depth. Of course if you change the subject to something non-political that all changes.

Many years ago, before the word NPC had even been invented and when the political battle lines were drawn differently I passed by a small demonstration. I walked up to them and asked what they were demonstrating about and got a short reply. I asked a natural follow up question and got the response that I "should talk with that guy over there, he's the one in the know".

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by kinow » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:27 AM UTC

bananamerica wrote: post #20

Brazil’s song could be translated as “Get fucked in the ass with a huge slap”. As a Brazilian, I don’t know what I was expecting.

Same here. For one second I thought I was going to listen to some local rock, or MPB. But forgot it could be a funk, sertanejo, etc. Really funny (funnier in Portuguese) title tho.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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

yellowapple wrote: post #138

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 i…

Brazil never fails to surprise me. I thought I was going to catch up with some new song and talk with friends.

But turns out it was a funk. And the title "Na raba toma tapão" in Portuguese is hilarious, something like "Slap that arse"?

Nothing like the old style funk, but a style that mixes other styles and very popular in the outskirts of Rio and Sao Paulo, and also in the favelas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_carioca

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by Maxion » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:40 AM UTC

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!

Auto-tune is like special effects in movies, virtually every movie has special effects but they're only noticed when it's badly done.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by mFixman » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:50 AM UTC

freetime2 wrote: post #101

[deleted] wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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…

I feel that everyone gets the point backwards.

If we were in a videogame, you would be an NPC: you don't have a person controlling you and don't know anything about the world outside the world.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by joe5150 » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:50 AM UTC

jariel wrote: post #109

yyy888sss wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Absolutely - if Ed and Bruno were more prevalent, no doubt. But look at the actual Hot100. It's just not that, it's very dominated by unlistenable stuff.

clearly the songs are all very “listenable”—they’re the most popular songs in the country and apparently the world right now

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by mFixman » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

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'm old enough to hate the topsong from almost every country, but I really like Indonesia's: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ksK7gpPDFdY4JLHr1hKfY?si=dgj...

I wonder why that is. Maybe 2020 Indonesian music is similar to the music I heard as a teen?

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by netcan » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:56 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…

I like this. It's concise, and captures something I've been saying about pop statistics for a while.

Statistics are such a big part of information these days (eg covid), and the poor intuitions people have about statistics are getting to be impactful.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by mFixman » Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:57 AM UTC

yellowapple wrote: post #138

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 i…

When I hear the songs from Central Europe I think more "German style rap" than "American style rap".

I guess your biases depend on what you base yourself on.