I would go so far as to say that JAMC never had anything in the US you could call a "hit" and to be honest I wouldn't even say "Just Like Honey" has risen to any kind of widespread recognition here despite its use in some popular movies. I was in college when Automatic came out, #1 "Alt Rock" it may have been but there was nobody listening to it except me.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 September 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
True, and a lot of what was big on Alternative Radio then had disappeared from regular rotation and--if you were lucky--relegated to niche programming like Sunday Night "College Music" shows.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 September 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Insert "a few years later" after 'rotation'.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 September 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
tbc I meant in current streaming numbers. "Just Like Honey" and "Head On" are their biggest Spotify "hits."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 September 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Surprisingly, "April Skies" is their #2 on Spotify.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
jamc a perfect example of a cult band in the u.s. afaict. have still never heard them on the radio or 'out and about' yet they're a pretty common name by now. wonder how much the pixies cover plays into their stateside notoriety.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Monday, 19 September 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
meaning: i wonder how many u.s. folks came to them via the cover.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Monday, 19 September 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
Probably quite a few, but there were a lot of teenage hipsters like myself who knew Psychocandy very well. I remember arguments circa 1986 about who the JAMC sounded like most⦠my friend said the Monkees and I said The Beach Boys
― Josefa, Monday, 19 September 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
probably a matter of time before By Your Side is the most played Sade tune on Spotify, already surpassed Your Love Is King
which tbh is completely reasonable
No Ordinary Love #3 on Spotify and on YT a surprise #1
such a great band
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
Looking at at the Velvet Underground top five on Spotify, I think it's all brunch playlist selections.
― bendy, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
Yeah, not that they had hits, but Iβd expect something like Sweet Jane to be the legacy song rather than Pale Blue Eyes.
― βuhhββlike, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie βuhhβ (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
Walk on the Wild Side still has about as many streams as the top 4-5 Velvets tracks, though, so no real upending of legacy there.
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
If it's brunch, it's got to be "Sunday Morning."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
Ain't no brunch like a Heroin Brunch.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Pale Blue Eyes shows up on soundtracks, I guess
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
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― Commodore Axilon, Monday, 3 April 2023 18:01 (eleven months ago) link
Trenchant.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah I've always been surprised that particular Aphex Twin track is #1
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:08 (eleven months ago) link
first post HoF
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:21 (eleven months ago) link
> Tom Waits' top song on Spotify is "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You", which has double the spins of runners-up "Martha", "Ol' 55", and "Hold On".
Two years later, now 3x his other Spotify tracks. Is there a soundtrack or major playlist placement? It's kinda campfire-y. Is it a Wonderwall type song now?
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:34 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYeGLvbHaid/
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:47 (eleven months ago) link
Ah ha
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, 13 April 2023 21:23 (eleven months ago) link
Looks like the most listened-to Anthrax song on Spotify is "Madhouse", apparently due to being on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It has 53 million plays, about a 15-million play edge over #2, their cover of "Got the Time" by Joe Jackson.
The song I expected to #1 by a long way, their version of "Bring the Noise" with Public Enemy (which was on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack), is #4, with 27 million plays.
Their highest-charting U.S. single, "Only", is somewhere around the bottom of the top 10, with only (haha) about 7 million plays.
Kinda weird.
― JRN, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:15 (ten months ago) link
Anthrax is a weird one. I mostly associate them with βIβm the Manβ which wasnβt a hit but a song everyone knew. And the only video I remember was for Indians, which kinda sucks.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 19:56 (ten months ago) link
"Me & Magdalena" is the 3rd biggest Monkees track on Spotify.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:11 (nine months ago) link
I mean, there's no way that happened because people actively chose to listen to it.
In my Spotify ignorance, how popular are Spotify-generated playlists? And do record labels push Spotify to put focus tracks on their Playlist?
If something like "Me and Magdalena" ends up as the 3rd most played Monkees song, the you really can't use those play counts to determine actual popularity.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:04 (nine months ago) link
Okay, βMe and Magdalenaβ is a fine song but really.
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:18 (nine months ago) link
Is it being used in a sped up version for a tiktok meme?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:52 (nine months ago) link
I think the top playlist for many artists wouldn't be a specific playlist but the "radio" playlists/auto-play
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:55 (nine months ago) link
Is it being used in a sped up version for a tiktok meme?haha a key question indeed
Bowie's been mentioned: most of his signature songs didn't chart as well as you'd expect (and lots of huge hits have all but vanished from popular memory).
His second most-played song on Spotify is "Starman" (#10 UK, #65 US), the third-most played is "Heroes" (a borderline flop that actually hit most of its chart peaks in 2016 after Bowie died), then there's "Rebel Rebel" (#5 UK, #64 US), "Space Oddity" (#1 UK, but with a complicated release history, hitting its high-water mark five years after it first appeared), and "Moonage Daydream" (never released as a single, at least not under the Bowie name).
Not present are "Dancing in the Streets" (#1 UK, #7 US), "China Girl" (#2 UK, #10 US) "Ashes to Ashes" (#1 UK), "Fame" (#17 UK, #1 US), "The Jean Genie" (#2 UK, #71 US), "Golden Years" (#8 UK, #10 US), "Blue Jean" (#6 UK, #8 US).
(His most-played song by a huge margin is "Under Pressure", which I'm ignoring because of crosstalk with the Queen name/brand).
― Coagulopath, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 07:37 (nine months ago) link
And for what it's worth "Breathe"/"Firestarter"/"SMBU" are all basically neck and neck on Spotify.
― Coagulopath, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 07:39 (nine months ago) link
I get the impression there's plenty of genuine affection for the song. eg. there was a live cover of it on an TV program recently on my side of the world, in a segment that leans towards to safe, tasteful choices, if not outright 'standards'.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 09:03 (nine months ago) link
Essentially streaming stats are a combination of the old sales charts and airplay charts. Only the streaming sites themselves know how the numbers break down of course.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 09:30 (nine months ago) link
The fourth highest played track on Spotify by the Lovin' Spoonful is "(Till I) Run With You", the sorta title track from their post-Sebastian album.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 16:29 (nine months ago) link
Essentially streaming stats are a combination of the old sales charts
if you remove all aspects of sales and remuneration
― serving bundt (sic), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 16:50 (nine months ago) link
xpost Used in a tv show last year, I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjfbZtP9uHU
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 16:52 (nine months ago) link
streaming stats are a different animal entirely because, to my understanding, it's the total number of times a song's been played since the day the streaming service started tracking streams. maybe some of the services reset or baseline the numbers occasionally, but I haven't heard of it
so sales charts tracking how many copies an album's sold since the day it was released might be a point of comparison, but that's still off. radio charts are plays per what, a week/month/year, and nearly all songs that were released as singles?
― mh, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 17:00 (nine months ago) link
I mean a combination of sales as in, something activey initiated by the listener, and airplay as in, something pushed onto the listener.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 21:45 (nine months ago) link
a really cool spotify mod/feature would be if you could change the default artist view from highlighting most streamed songs to highlighting "best" songs, as in, songs preferred by fans most acquainted with said artists catalog (or smth)
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 07:24 (nine months ago) link
with over 62m streams "when the sun hits" is slowdive's biggest song on spotify, beating "alison" handily.
― meg white's superior technique. (Austin), Friday, 7 July 2023 02:57 (eight months ago) link
Not sure that counts, as such. Slowdive never had any hits. More than 99% of people would never have heard of them, and of those (like me) who are/were fans, I don't think many would be able to confidently say "*this* is their biggest tune" about any of them. I would have had absolutely no idea what the number one would have been.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 9 July 2023 21:02 (eight months ago) link
Strangely enough it seems Renegade is the big audience favourite rather than Come Sail Away or Mr Roboto or whatever, certainly at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
Read this with disbelief and went straight to Apple Music, where, indeed, Renegade is Styx's most streamed song! What on earth? I wouldn't have guessed it was in the top 5.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 22:03 (eight months ago) link
(oh sorry that post is from the Kansas thread, not this one)
"Renegade" was/is a huge Classic Rock radio staple, mainly because it's one of the only big Styx songs in hat actually rocks out.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 22:18 (eight months ago) link
The opening lines are like the definition of Classic Rock
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 23:19 (eight months ago) link
It hits this spot right in the middle of Queen and Bon Jovi
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 23:20 (eight months ago) link
Honestly yeah the inbred-looking extended family of Wisconsonites in the row in front of us all went "yissss!", pumped their fists and began filming on their phones when Tommy Shaw sang the opening lines.
― I fell asleep at kabuki (Matt #2), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 23:45 (eight months ago) link
Also the 3rd best utilization of Styx on Freaks and Geeks.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:10 (eight months ago) link
Tony Bennett's top Spotify track is his duet w/Amy Winehouse on "Body and Soul".
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:44 (eight months ago) link