Speaking tho of hooky and compact, "Immigrant Song" boasts Zep's most famous hook in a handy 2:26 package.
except for the 2:26 run time, that explains barracuda's reign atop the heart catalog.
as for zep, the classic rock radio i grew up with in the northeast played whole lotta love, black dog and rock and roll more than any other zep tracks, if memory serves. stairway and kashmir a little less, presumably because of the length. (d'yer mak'er might've been in the top bucket, too, but i've tried to block out that memory.) immigrant song - probably my fave zep hit - got less play than any of those, which, besides the god-like hook and the superhuman vocal, may have had something to do with why i loved it so much. radio never gave me the chance to get sick of it.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that sounds like my experience. Tbh, I think heard "Hey Hey What Can I Do" (the B-side of "Immigrant Song") more often on the radio than "Immigrant Song".
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
(in the 80s and 90s)
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
i don't recall "immigrant song" being played when i was regularly listening to classic rock radio in the late 90s-early 2000s.
― visiting, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
Barracuda appears to have been on many more soundtracks than other Heart songs xps
https://www.tunefind.com/artist/heart
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 08:37 (three years ago) link
why is 'Harness Youre Hopes' Pavement's most played song?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
oh, I see we discussed it a bit upthread but no satisfactory conclusions
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
There's a brief reddit thread that suggests it's a Spotify algorithm as it always seems to come up on shuffle.
Interestingly, if you look at their Last FM page it's the most scrobbled track for any of the charts up to the last year but when you change it to 'All Time' it doesn't even make the Top 60.
And going off the Last FM figures it's been scrobbled 56 thousand times in the last year but only received 2,500 scrobbles in all the years before
(it also appears again on the list with slightly different metadata)
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
there was talk earlier in the thread that Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" was one of these songs. Strangely, his most streamed track on Spotify is "Solsbury Hill" though that may have to do with a lot of his work not being available on there for so long
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
and Mike + the Mechanics' #1 track is "Over My Shoulder"--which didn't chart in the US.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
Solsbury Hill doesn't seem that incongruous tbh - it's one of his most famous songs and has been used in countless TV shows and movies
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
yeah, but "In Your Eyes" isn't even as popular as PG's covers of Bowie and Arcade Fire
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 August 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
that is 100% because for a while those cover albums were gabriel's only music on spotify.
i think solsbury hill might've been up there too on an OST
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 August 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
The 12-inch mix of "Outstanding" by The Gap Band is 11 Million spins ahead of the next most popular "You Dropped A Bomb On Me", and over 25 million more the regular mix of "Outstanding".
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
"Yearning for Your Love" or GTFO
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
"You Are My High" has 108 billion streams.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 14 August 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
that's cause the 12-inch mix of "outstanding" is better than "bomb" or the og mix. I imagine the real reason it's the top gap band is the electric slide.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 15 August 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
yeah, that specific version of "outstanding" is also the one that's been sampled a lot in later years. great song either way, but i like the 12" mix specifically for reminding me of all the good stuff that's taken bits from it.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 15 August 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
New Order - Age of Consent
It didn’t chart because it wasn’t even a single but it’s currently a top 3 song for them both in itunes and spotify. Maybe movie licensing via Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is the reason this one is so high?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 August 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
New Order - Age of ConsentIt didn’t chart because it wasn’t even a single but it’s currently a top 3 song for them both in itunes and spotify. Maybe movie licensing via Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is the reason this one is so high?
― Boring, Maryland, Sunday, 16 August 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Kind of prefigures the sound of millennial indie.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Sunday, 16 August 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
I just heard it yesterday, on the DirecTV / Music Choice “Classic Alternative” channel.
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Sunday, 16 August 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Used in 'Girls' too and a bunch of other tv shows/films i've never heard of. Skateland? Misfits? Cold Case? Pretty popular with soundtrack-ers anyroad
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627563/
― piscesx, Sunday, 16 August 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Whatever the reason I’m happy it has become one of their best known songs, it’s probably a top 10 song of the 80s for me, let alone my favorite New Order song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 August 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
when i first started to dig into the new order discography in the early 2000s, "age of consent" was easily one of the highest highlights. i thought it *must* have been a single, but nope. awesome that it's so recognized these days. well deserved.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 16 August 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's always been one of their best tracks.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 16 August 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
It has been mentioned upthread but The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun stands as their most streamed song on spotify with 500M views (follow up is Come Together with 300M) and it was also a song that didn’t chart since it wasn’t released as a single. Surprised it has become their top song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
Also noticed this one recently:
Blonde Redhead - For the damaged cod
Has 58M streams on spotify towering highly above the rest of their songs. I was confused because I used to love them back in the 90s and I wasn’t aware this was their “hit” song. Turns out it got very popular recently by being used in a Rick & Morty finale episode.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
How did that happen re "Here Comes the Sun"? I would not have guessed it to be in the top 3. (I would have guessed some combination of "Let It Be", "Yesterday", and "Hey Jude".)
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
Summer playlists
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
* listens, not views
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
"Here Comes The Sun" was always a huge radio song, and in addition to summer playlists, I bet it pops up a bunch on 'Positive Vibes', 'Acoustic Moods', and 'Sixties Fun' playlists too.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Also, since it's their top track, it's currently the lead track on the 'This Is: The Beatles' playlist.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Weird Al’s top 5 doesn’t include Eat It or Fat.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 August 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Re: « HCTS » it’s weird cos I wouldn’t count it in their top 10 most popular tracks (which would be something like : She loves you, I wanna hold your hand, Help!, AHDN, Yesterday, Penny Lane, Strawberry FF, All you need is love, Hey Jude, Let it be...).It’s not even on their « 1 »compilation !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 16 August 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
My sense is that "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" is more of a favourite of music snobs but not so much the general public, at least here. HCTS does get a lot of radio play; I just didn't think it was nearly as big as those others but it does sound less dated.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Monday, 17 August 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 August 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link
Aside from Al also getting better since then, I'd guess his most-streamed tracks tend to be parodies of songs from the streaming era, plus maybe the Star Wars one.
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 08:24 (three years ago) link
Amish Paradise is his number one
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 17 August 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link
A parody source with multi-generational appeal!
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
Here Comes the Sun is very popular among my kids' circle as a song to learn on guitar. Not sure what the chicken and egg are that lead to that song in particular.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Monday, 17 August 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
"Here Comes the Sun" is not the most Beatles-y Beatles song. It's a bit of an anomaly. As a consequence - and this is key - non-Beatles fans also like it. So do at least some Beatles fans.
Here Comes the Sun is a nice song and it makes lots of people happy. It gets plays from people who don't really give a shit about John vs. Paul, Abbey Road vs. White Album, Pepper vs. Rubber Soul, which is the better "Revolution," etc. And it also gets plays from people who genuinely DO care about all those things, but like an occasional George palate cleanser between their John & Paul beefs.
― all we are is durst in the wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 August 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
This surely accounts for it:
In July 2016, "Here Comes the Sun" was played as the entrance music for Ivanka Trump at the Republican National Convention.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
Blonde Redhead - For the damaged codHas 58M streams on spotify towering highly above the rest of their songs. I was confused because I used to love them back in the 90s and I wasn’t aware this was their “hit” song. Turns out it got very popular recently by being used in a Rick & Morty finale episode.― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, August 16, 2020 2:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, August 16, 2020 2:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
It wasn't just that it was used by Rick & Morty, but that the usage spawned a meme: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgyyz/rick-and-mortys-for-the-damaged-coda-scene-spawns-a-savage-new-meme
...which eventually led to the song's appearance in a MAGA video retweeted by Trump:
this is of course moronic but is that an unlicensed Blonde Redhead song on the outro? weird https://t.co/EfPiefJElF— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) February 9, 2020
― jaymc, Monday, 17 August 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
“Fat” wasn’t a hit. “Eat It” (not a fat-shaming song) was — but I can understand why a Michael Jackson parody from 1984 wouldn’t be too much in demand now.
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Monday, 17 August 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
well, this has led me to find out that "Gangsta's Paradise" has more Spotify streams (486 million) than "Beat It" (442 million) which is kinda mindblowing
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 17 August 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
It's the better song tbf.
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
“Fat” wasn’t a hit.
True. I guess the video was just overplayed. "Amish Paradise" otoh only peaked at #53.
Al had bigger hits with "Eat It" "Smells Like Nirvana" and "White & Nerdy"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 17 August 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
This surely accounts for it:/In July 2016, "Here Comes the Sun" was played as the entrance music for Ivanka Trump at the Republican National Convention./
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 17 August 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Great example for this thread! I also hope I never hear it or any other song by the Beatles ever again!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link