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― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Ah ha
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Thursday, 13 April 2023 21:23 (one year 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 (eleven months ago) link
Anthrax is a weird one. I mostly associate them with “I’m the Man” which wasn’t 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 (eleven 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
Okay, “Me and Magdalena” is a fine song but really.
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:18 (ten months ago) link
Is it being used in a sped up version for a tiktok meme?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:52 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gmco70l.jpg
― Alba, Friday, 21 July 2023 14:48 (nine months ago) link
lol
"Entourage" star Tony Bennett dies at 96.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 21 July 2023 14:52 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, for most people with a detectable pulse, he is the guy who did duets with Lady Gaga and Billy Joel and he may have been in an Austin Powers movie. Sorry.
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 July 2023 15:23 (nine months ago) link
Interestingly enough, the 2nd biggest Bennett track on Spotify is a version of "The Way You Look Tonight" from a 2012 rarities collection, a recording I assume blew up because of a movie/tv synch or something.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 July 2023 00:21 (nine months ago) link
^^My Best Friend's Wedding
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 July 2023 00:21 (nine months ago) link
This is a funny one: "Let's Twist Again" is Chubby Checker's top Spotify song, beating "The Twist" by around 40 million spins.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 July 2023 03:07 (nine months ago) link
you can only Twist once, but you can Twist Again many times
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 03:09 (nine months ago) link
“The Twist” plays are vote-split btw the Checker, Fat Boys, and Hank Ballard & The Midnighters versions.
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Monday, 24 July 2023 03:34 (nine months ago) link
is this a safe space to admit that i actually really love the Fat Boys version
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 03:37 (nine months ago) link
Am I right that "Let's Twist Again" was technically the bigger hit, by some metrics? It's certainly the one I heard more as an oldie growing up.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 July 2023 03:49 (nine months ago) link
Seems it was in the UK.
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Monday, 24 July 2023 03:56 (nine months ago) link
It's certainly the one I heard more as an oldie growing up.
Same here, going back to the days when they had to play those tracks off tapes because they weren't on CD yet.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 July 2023 04:33 (nine months ago) link
I can even remember a period when the local station would only play "Let's Twist Again" and "Limbo Rock" from him.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 July 2023 04:38 (nine months ago) link
Bread
Their biggest hits were "Make It With You" (#1) and "Baby I'm-a-Want You" (#3) but "Everything I Own" (#5) is their most streamed song by a 28 million stream margin.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 27 November 2023 21:17 (five months ago) link
And yet, the first two get played on Sirius's Yacht Rock station constantly, and I've never heard the last one there (or anywhere else, really)
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Monday, 27 November 2023 21:37 (five months ago) link
The Ken Boothe and Boy George cover versions were huge in the UK though
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 10:35 (five months ago) link
Goldfinger's "Superman" is by far their biggest song and definitely their legacy song (Thanks to THPS) even though "Here in you bedroom" I think was their biggest hot at the time.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:51 (five months ago) link
on further reading, I see they were mentioned already, forgot to see all messages before I did my ctrl - F
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:22 (five months ago) link
Do Metallica belong here now, post Stranger Things?
― chap, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:15 (five months ago) link
That’s an odd case, since MoP was a legacy song before they started having hits.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:17 (five months ago) link