This Insider Spotify Data Is MIND-BLOWING

These people didn't spend years getting to the top they started at the top and stayed there because kids aren't interested in music anymore, apparently 🤷‍♂

More data to show kids just don't care about music anymore huh?

I would say Bad Bunny is an embarrassment for Latin Music. But he doesn't make music. He makes organized noise.

Man this just really breaks down how the world went down hill musically lmao

Do those of us with rock leaning tastes belong on a different service? I’m more of a “Roq of the 80s” fan (KROQ) and have never subscribed to streaming.

where, oh, where is my Jimi...

“Bad Bunnybhas 71 million listeners.” Then makes a funny face, haha! I am going to use that for my Twitter post. I know, I’m missing rock n roll as much as anyone, but it is what it is.

Am I missing something here? How can The Weekend who is generally only going to appeal to people under 30 have that many more monthly listens than say The Beatles who appeal to virtual everyone alive at least to some degree. I mean how many 50 year olds are going to listen to The Weekend vs. 20 year olds that will listen to Hey Jude or I am the Walrus? And what is the likelihood that any of the lame pop artists in the top 10 this week will still be listened to 50 years from now? Tfoh

Brilliant ⚡️

War sehr interessant, vielen Dank!

Let’s see AI try Return to Forever.. A Stanley Clarke or Chick Corea.. I don’t believe It can be that personal or human;much less with that amount of personality and talent..

someone likes Jeans

great content as always.

Presumably The Beatles are artificially low down as they avoided the platform for many years?

I dont use any of them to listen to music , the artist deserves payment above the morons who take there music to make money for people to listen to it.. I stick with my own library of music that is 8 tb that I bought amd paid for and I get all the music that I want to listen to . Corporate America is a joke in this country , its almost as big if a joke as politicians. But it is what it is ..

Beatles should be No.1. They basically invented good music

I don't think that a music career with longevity has anything to do with success anymore. You recently reviewed a top 10 playlist in which a certain "peso pluma" appears, he got huge overnight and no one in Mexico knew about him before that happened, I've even heard that some cartel invested money in lifting him up on the charts. This takes me to the other point which is that I wouldn't be surprised if spotify or any other major platform , decides to invest on his own AI "artists" without the obvious royalties payments and they'll just make them huge with the aid of bots.

The only other artists I can kind of see close to the Beatles on the top 200, the stones and the bee gees. I’m glad these acts are still so relevant, such incredible music

Eye opening!

This only says something about Spotify which is that it is relatively insignificant to a majority of music listeners.

Rock and Metal also have a bigger portion of CD and Vinyl listeners which reduces the monthly listens on streaming platforms. One should add the recent Vinyl and CD sellings of a band to the monthly listens. How many for one CD? Don't know. Maybe 5$/0.003? Just a guess. 0.003 because 1 listen is 0.003$ (I think).

imho this is one of the most valuable music channels on yt

What do you mean, AI artists can't interact with their fans? I believe they'll be able to interact much more with their fans: how many people do both Siri and Alexa interact with on a daily basis, like gezilllions, non?

I don't use Apple Music and Spotify. Instead, I use Tidal and it wasn't discussed here. But yeah, the auto playlist is amazing.

So... lots of people listening for the classic of their youth; and lots of people listening to modern relevant music that can't top these chart because they are not fueled by nostagia ? (just another way to see the data)

70’s music rock disco etc this is what people over 60 are listening too

This is such a great video! Well done!

But that started with Gangman Style I guess...., ¿who remember him?

I'm curious where Elvis sat before and after 2020, due to the popularization of Baz Luhrmann's movie ELVIS that was released in 2022.

A.I better get networking and form a Union lest some unscrupulous music monopoly takes a big byte out of their Bitcoin.

This all makes me sad.

Rick older music listeners may still be listening to cds dvds different formats

The masses don't love listening to rock, and that is a big truth we (metalheads/rock listeners) have to come to terms with. And it's also ok!

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People follow media trends and media has been pushing rap, hip hop and Latin heavily over rock and metal. No surprise.

The Beatles may be the best band ever, but they have not been together in the lifetime of anyone who is not a pensioner. Think about that. Older people need to teach younger people about music history, they're not going to have it presented to them by spotify or any other service, bc of course all involved want current artists to get the attention.

Rick should do a deeper dive into Greta Van Feet and listen with a little more patience. Its amazing what those kids are doing and they are just getting started. I know I will look back in 40 years (if Im still alive) and see them in a similar light that Rick sees these bands from 1978 in.

I know you know this Rick, but one of the best way for older artists to get new recognition is to allow their music to be used on Youtube and other streaming locations, instead of blocking it almost instantly like Don Henley, Guns N Roses and so many others do. Remember when the guy used Stevie Nicks' Dreams as he was long boarding to work and it went viral? Well if he had have used a Lindsey Buckingham song, it would have been blocked and nobody would have even seen the video or heard the song. Since he used a Stevie song and she doesn't block, Spotify and all the other music streaming locations blew up as a new generation were streaming Dreams. Now that is smart! I tried using iTunes years ago and got so frustrated with the way I needed to put music on my phone that I decided I didn't want any program I was using to dictate what I was listening to, so I found a better program and started burning all my CD's to mp3's. I have over 8000 songs on my phone with tons of room to spare. If I find new music, like Oliver Anthony for example...I just add it to my phone. I don't need to be online to listen to music. I can still listen to my JBL speaker when I'm out in the bush as long as I have a charge. No streaming for me...Ha!

I pay no mind to Tik-Tok, because my President Banned Tik-Tok!

There is active listening and there is background noise. When three teenage girls are putting on makeup, talking random nonsense, spamming Instagram stories and getting ready for the night out while playing Ed Sheeran on their (tiny mono speaker) phone in the corner, that's not listening, that's background noise.

If only it were possible to compile lists of what people are playing at home from music they "own" on CD or downloaded from way back. I have subs to Amazon Music, Spotify and (I think, it may have lapsed) iTunes - but I seldom use them as compared to playing from my own local music library of stuff I have bought over the years.

I find so much more music down my particular avenue on Spotify, which can vary from epic power metal, to Deathcore and Prog-metal and all the cool new stuff that constantly comes out, that trying to follow the top 10 is just a waste of time. I couldn't listen to and enjoy my diverse metal playlists with the time I have left on this earth, least of all if I spent any of that time worrying about how to make metal more famous. I love all forms of metal and Spotify has done nothing but blessed the community with unlimited exposure.

Can you get some kind of super microscope to find jazz and classical!? 😢

what surprises me more that noone is talking about deezer, great platform with hifi (even tho I have bad ear so might be lied)

From working in a place were we get to listen to music, I've noticed people tend to stat-pad their listening on Spotify. I've heard reports of people listening to one artist on repeat to see how high they can get on that artists listening list. Some have reported leaving their Spotify playing at home on repeat to boast their listening stats. This one guy plays the first 30 seconds of a song, starts over, and repeats more than 50 times a day. Observing this has actually made me kind of depressed. How is any small/local artist supposed to compete? It doesn't matter how good your music is, you're not going to be able to compete with thousands of stat-padders all trying to be Ed Shearan's top listener. And I think Spotify even has a point system based on how popular the music you're listening to is. It's algorithm will regularly suggest popular songs, even if you don't listen to that style, and it seems to prioritize popular songs more than unpopular ones when on shuffle. Everything about it is designed to champion those on top and keep them on top.

You talk to 5 different metal heads and it's possible they are all listening to different things across multiple years, bands and subgenres. It's a very pulverized market and in no way it will have enough of an accumulated audience to rise in those charts.

Didn´t Coldplay release their first album in the late 90's? You put Shakira and Eminem there.

oh so there are just two genderes huh? good

You also have to consider what kind of people listen to spotify instead of a real physical CD or even Vinyl. I guess many "rockers" listen to music on CD or other physical formats. That contributes to the low rates for rock music you find on spotify. But its not only as I said rockers. It`s also about music-lovers....they definately prefer superior audio formats to streaming. So to me, the spotify list and dta you talked about is not telling everything you might suggest. ;-)

I think pop stars are in fact AI artists.