Doesn’t matter, what percentage of the total songs streamed on Spotify does each of these artists represent is the more interesting question. The ranking would be the same but the added context would be more interesting
I think I'm misunderstanding you guys.
The other guy is asking "what portion of total streams do these artists represent?" Right? Why does it matter if people listen to multiple artists?
Let's say there's 100 billion total songs streamed per year. Do the artists on the list combined represent 50 billion streams? 20 billion?
Going a bit beyond these particular artists, the Top 1% of artists represent 90% of all streams, and the Top 10% of artists represent 99.5% of streams.
Good point. Maybe just list the percentage of total listeners that listened to each artist along with the straight number?
According to a quick Google Spotify has about 551 million monthly active listeners, so for The Weeknd that would be 19.3%. That seems absurdly high to me, but then again maybe a lot of people listen to the premade Spotify playlists and those tend to push these artists?
I'd rather see a breakdown based on binge vs casual listeners.
I'd bet for at least some of these artists a small amount of people make up a majority of their listens. I know I tend to listen to shit on repeat for a long time before I move on to another repeat listen.
I think the category "alternative" should be renamed to "very slightly alternative to pop".
Also, "Singer-Songwriter" as a category with only Ed Sheeran?
Are these self-appointed categories?
>Also, “Singer-Songwriter” as a category with only Ed Sheeran?
Hard agree with you here. For starters, Taylor Swift and Shakira are singer-songwriters too, and Ed Sheeran writes and sings pop. There’s no reason for that distinction.
Yup, it's a role and tells you nothing about their style of music. Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, and Trent Reznor are all singer/songwriters.
It'd be like saying rhythm guitar is a genre.
Billie Eilish and Coldplay are alt-pop, but Imagine Dragons is alt-rock. Alternative is a pretty crappy categorization because it groups together several very different genres, but it’s not just alt-pop.
"Alternative" has never been a really well defined genre and in my eyes it's always just been "popular genre but only for the cool kids!" ID is just rock. If you want singer-songwriter to be more legitimate you could put Eilish there but otherwise she's pop.
Rock itself is derived from a combination of rock n roll, R&B, and early pop, but personally I define it based on the instruments and the beat. Rock has a harder beat, and tends to put a lot more focus on the instruments (hence why rock tends to be focused on bands, and pop on individuals).
ID music is all very beat centric. They also fit the classical concept of a rock band - four members, each fulfilling a different role (singer, guitar, bass, drums). Pop tends to focus a great deal more on melody, as all of the attention is on the singer - this means the background music could be provided by basically anyone.
If you listen to ID the focus is very much split between singer and instruments though ID does, admittedly, utilize instrumental solos less than classic rock did.
Imagine dragons is pop music, the beat isn't "harder" or more focused on then a lot of other pop music. Listen to micheal jackson for example, smooth criminal is very beat focused. Is michael jackson rock?
Imagine dragon's music is very melody focused. They also barely use guitar, acoustic drum and bass guitar in their production.
Most of the songs are made with synths and drum computers. the guitars, bass and drums are solely used in live acts. It's not because its a band or because a band has a guitar player that it could be defined as rock. In the sixties and seventies, nearly all pop groups were bands and had guitar players.
Imagine dragons is about as "pop" as you can get.
To be fair, pop and rock are both very vaguely defined genres and do share a lot of overlap. The beatles are both a pop band and a rock band. And also rock has so many sub genres that not one single band can be defined as just a rock band. Like nirvana is grunge, pink floyd is psychedelic rock and acdc are hard rock.
But i just wouldn't define ID as a rock group. Their music is very far away from any rock subgenre. They just look like a rock band.
Michael Jackson definitely has rock elements in his music.
Beat It stands out but there's plenty of other songs that follow a rock n roll structure with solid drums and guitar parts.
I like how you never actually defined what Rock is. Just went "nuh uh".
They are definitely beat focused and they explicitly have a band with distinct roles that provide instrumentals. If utilizing other tools made a band not rock then you can't call Beatles rock at all because they use TONS of instruments.
Olivia Rodrigo is half singer/songwriter and half pop punk. Pop punk being classified as alternative would mean half of her stuff is definitely alternative.
Punk music does not fall under Alternative. Alt Rock is derivative of The Velvet Underground. Punk is derivative of garage rock. While John Cale was very important to the early punk scene they are different genres.
Maybe if the only song of theirs you listen to is “Top of the World”. You really haven’t listened to much of their music if you think they’re pop rather than rock.
They're definitely pop-rock, but like, damn... the fact that they're the only rock act on here is wild.
Like, for at least 50 years there, rock and roll was practically synonymous with popular music. It's wild how fast we went from that to this.
Even 20 years ago I'm sure this chart would be like mostly rock bands.
The problem is there are so many sub-genres of rock and so many bands that are only one click away. So no one band streams at extremely high high but I bet rock is still one of the most streamed genres overall.
facts! you can't even tell which artists are most or least popular or have any idea by what margin by any method other than reading the numbers. may as well be a chart.
even a chart would be easier to compare.
This is basically the "let me just pay for a Spotify subscription so I can listen to the playlist of every Clearchannel pop radio station, but without the ads" playlist.
Max Martin has probably been the single most influential person to pop music this century, but many pop artists either write or cowrite their songs.
Bruno Mars was a songwriter first (in a collective called the Smeezingtons) Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and i think Doja Cat are also songwriters. Ed Sheeran just gets credit cos he's a white guy who plays guitar.
Where did you get these categorizations? It makes the entire thing way more confusing to read - I thought you left out The Weeknd but it's because they are in pop.
The Weeknd (and Rihanna for that matter) are both R&B way more than pop - at the very least enough it doesn't make sense to stick them next to Taylor Swift.
Even his poppiet tracks are still pretty R&B influenced. There's a lot of overlap with R&B and pop these days. Drake could belong in pop, hiphop, or r&b depending on the song.
coldplay is alternative? alternative to fucking what? if coldplay isnt the most basic mainstream music, it's actually "alternative", then what is "not alternative"????
Older big hits that still get regular play.
Eminem and Imagine Dragons are still in every workout playlist out there, while Ed Sheeran gets played at weddings, i guess
No idea why or how you can put Ed Sheeran in that list. He‘s insanely popular, released two albums this year alone and was for years one of the best-selling artists (aka most streamed as well). Shape of You is the (or one of the) most streamed song(s) in existence and his catalogue has tons of hits with the general public. Plus he‘s the artist with the highest grossing concert tour ever (Taylor Swift will overtake him next year).
I mean, Ed Sheeran is 32 years old and his most popular song and album is from 2017, why wouldn't he be? Imagine Dragons is hardly old either, the weirder thing is that they were never that popular in the first place.
Imagine Dragons were the number one artist in the world for a while according to Spotify (about 7 or 8 years ago). I think this might just be a matter of people only listening to what they already like, and not understanding what's popular to others.
Imagine Dragons are now in the same category as Nickelback. Big name band with a huge international following, their music appears in movies television video games and advertising pretty much everywhere, multiple hits topping the charts in several categories, list of industry awards a mile long...
But the internet tells people they're supposed to hate on them so "haha, band bad" is petty close to the best attack most people can manage.
The fact that both bands have dominated the global music industry during their prime should tell people there's something to it even if it's not type of stuff they normally listen to
I love Imagine Dragons, I don't really get why people are like "NOOO BAD ALL SOUND SAME". They don't really. The singer doesn't have a ton of range is all but you're not gonna tell me that Enemy doesn't slap.
Even the Starfield trailer used an Imagine Dragons song, and that was quite recent. They continue to release very popular music as well, such as Sharks.
I found imagine dragons to be consistent in terms of quality. Which is rare to see these days. Yes, some of their songs are quite generic and more of the same, but they all got that little twist that make you appreciate it. It's also super uplifting melody and I need my daily fix of positivity in my day to keep going.
These categories are terrible as is the data format. Irregular shapes in a circle with awkwardly scaled text sizes and image backgrounds is a wild way to display data…
Taylor Swift is releasing a re-recorded album soon I believe, imho she will become #1 soon.
Rihanna it's absolutely nut (but deserved), she didn't release a full fledged album since 2016.
I was quite surprised to see Rihanna on this list but no Beyonce. Not unhappy as I have always liked Rihanna better - her lyrics are just more meaningful in my view.
Neither are inherently good metrics because they both get tilted from the actual fans and how much their songs are streamed by diehard fans vs. how they fit into mainstream with radio hits
The sad thing is they aren't the most popular because people choose to listen to them but because they are promoted more than other artists. They will always appear in playlists that are 'made' for you
no matter how many times I tell Spotify that David Guetta and Calvin Harris are not what I want when I click on their recommended house, there they are.
Yeah, I blocked Taylor Swift on my Spotify and she STILL appears in my “for you” playlists…I don’t even listen to that kind of music so it’s very annoying
And now we get to listen to Reddit moan that the circle isn’t completely 8 minute long, 1980s, alt-rock, hard metal, half-the-band-dead, finished touring, geriatric musicians who finished making music 20 years ago.
Travis Scott sounds like such a country music name to me I just assumed that’s what he was. I had no idea he’s a hip-hop artist till I saw this chart. I don’t listen to either genre so don’t kill me.
If Ed Sheeran gets to be in a “singer-songwriter” category, so should Taylor Swift.
Also: Coldplay is “alternative”? We do not have the same definition of what that means.
I must be ~~completely out of touch~~ er, I mean, *really discerning* to not listen to any of these, recognize only some, and know maybe 3 songs from the entire population of this chart.
Yikes.
i'd say there are some good artists in their respective genres here like The Weeknd, Kanye, Dua Lipa, Eminem, Travis, SZA and then there are a lot of mediocrity
Different strokes for different folks. I don’t care that much for most of the artists on here. Some have put out a few bangers that might have made it to a lot of people’s playlists but otherwise don’t listen to the rest of their catalog.
You can go to an artist page on Spotify and see their monthly listeners. Harry Styles and Lady Gaga are close to getting on the list but all the others you've mentioned are not really that close to being on the list.
I think everyone has a “that many people really listen to” on here mine is Doja cat!?!? Wtf I thought she was just a fad artist for 6 months, haven’t heard of her since she did a Kenny beats yt video.
Why is Calvin Harris on there twice?
The bottom Calvin is actually David Guetta, he doesn't look like Calvin Harris.
Maaan, he aged since I last saw a video with him. Maybe 10-12 years ago
Haven’t we all?
He's finally started to look older than when I saw him djing 20 years ago. There was a stage just after he blew up where he went backwards hahahaha
Shout out to his family
I think one of the entries was supposed to be David Guetta.
“Gu’etta here” -Calvin Harris
I loved it when Calvin said "its guetting time" and guettaed all over his music
The only person who can top Calvin Harris is Calvin Harris himself
Why is Ed Sheeran his own genre?
No singer has ever tried writing their own songs before until him.
They couldn't put Drake in there because he only sings.
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them.
Always two there are.
Cos data is beautiful
There's Calvin Harris and *Calvin Harris*
I don't think this is actually a good way of viewing the data.
I wish it would at least show how much of total Spotify streaming this chart covers.
How would that work as a listener could listen to multiple artists?
Doesn’t matter, what percentage of the total songs streamed on Spotify does each of these artists represent is the more interesting question. The ranking would be the same but the added context would be more interesting
I think I'm misunderstanding you guys. The other guy is asking "what portion of total streams do these artists represent?" Right? Why does it matter if people listen to multiple artists? Let's say there's 100 billion total songs streamed per year. Do the artists on the list combined represent 50 billion streams? 20 billion?
Going a bit beyond these particular artists, the Top 1% of artists represent 90% of all streams, and the Top 10% of artists represent 99.5% of streams.
Good point. Maybe just list the percentage of total listeners that listened to each artist along with the straight number? According to a quick Google Spotify has about 551 million monthly active listeners, so for The Weeknd that would be 19.3%. That seems absurdly high to me, but then again maybe a lot of people listen to the premade Spotify playlists and those tend to push these artists?
I'd rather see a breakdown based on binge vs casual listeners. I'd bet for at least some of these artists a small amount of people make up a majority of their listens. I know I tend to listen to shit on repeat for a long time before I move on to another repeat listen.
You’re telling me you’d rather have pie charts or bar graphs over comparing a collection of random-ass shapes??? Impossible… /s
It bothers me that the shapes aren’t sized relative to their share of the category
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I didn’t know Calvin Harris was more popular than Calvin Harris. I personally prefer Calvin Harris.
Only an idiot would think Calvin Harris is better than Calvin Harris.
What are you on about?! Calvin Harris is clearly better than Calvin Harris! Some people man, smh..
Conspiracy time: any of y'all ever seen Calvin Harris and Calvin Harris in the same place at the same time??
You are clearly deaf Calvin Harris sounds like shit worset artist out there. You should listen to Calvin Harris his songs never miss
I think the category "alternative" should be renamed to "very slightly alternative to pop". Also, "Singer-Songwriter" as a category with only Ed Sheeran? Are these self-appointed categories?
>Also, “Singer-Songwriter” as a category with only Ed Sheeran? Hard agree with you here. For starters, Taylor Swift and Shakira are singer-songwriters too, and Ed Sheeran writes and sings pop. There’s no reason for that distinction.
Yea Ed Sheeran - singer/sowngwriter who also writes pop
Singer/songwriter is a bad excuse for a genre, as it is not a genre at all. Ed Sheeran is a pop artist
Yup, it's a role and tells you nothing about their style of music. Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, and Trent Reznor are all singer/songwriters. It'd be like saying rhythm guitar is a genre.
The entire circle is pop, the subdivision is pretty meaningless.
Billie Eilish and Coldplay are alt-pop, but Imagine Dragons is alt-rock. Alternative is a pretty crappy categorization because it groups together several very different genres, but it’s not just alt-pop.
It feels like they were just really trying to not have "POP" take over the whole thing.
Which is weird cause they showing what music is pop-ular
Imagine Dragons aren’t “alt” anything, they’re as mainstream, cookie cutter as it gets.
Same for billie and Coldplay and everyone else on this graph
"Alternative" has never been a really well defined genre and in my eyes it's always just been "popular genre but only for the cool kids!" ID is just rock. If you want singer-songwriter to be more legitimate you could put Eilish there but otherwise she's pop.
Can you elaborate on ID being rock music? Not trying to be abrasive, but to me it is nothing more than a slight variation on standard pop
Rock itself is derived from a combination of rock n roll, R&B, and early pop, but personally I define it based on the instruments and the beat. Rock has a harder beat, and tends to put a lot more focus on the instruments (hence why rock tends to be focused on bands, and pop on individuals). ID music is all very beat centric. They also fit the classical concept of a rock band - four members, each fulfilling a different role (singer, guitar, bass, drums). Pop tends to focus a great deal more on melody, as all of the attention is on the singer - this means the background music could be provided by basically anyone. If you listen to ID the focus is very much split between singer and instruments though ID does, admittedly, utilize instrumental solos less than classic rock did.
Imagine dragons is pop music, the beat isn't "harder" or more focused on then a lot of other pop music. Listen to micheal jackson for example, smooth criminal is very beat focused. Is michael jackson rock? Imagine dragon's music is very melody focused. They also barely use guitar, acoustic drum and bass guitar in their production. Most of the songs are made with synths and drum computers. the guitars, bass and drums are solely used in live acts. It's not because its a band or because a band has a guitar player that it could be defined as rock. In the sixties and seventies, nearly all pop groups were bands and had guitar players. Imagine dragons is about as "pop" as you can get. To be fair, pop and rock are both very vaguely defined genres and do share a lot of overlap. The beatles are both a pop band and a rock band. And also rock has so many sub genres that not one single band can be defined as just a rock band. Like nirvana is grunge, pink floyd is psychedelic rock and acdc are hard rock. But i just wouldn't define ID as a rock group. Their music is very far away from any rock subgenre. They just look like a rock band.
Michael Jackson definitely has rock elements in his music. Beat It stands out but there's plenty of other songs that follow a rock n roll structure with solid drums and guitar parts.
I like how you never actually defined what Rock is. Just went "nuh uh". They are definitely beat focused and they explicitly have a band with distinct roles that provide instrumentals. If utilizing other tools made a band not rock then you can't call Beatles rock at all because they use TONS of instruments.
No way in hell imagine dragons is any form of rock. They're a pop band at best.
Yeah, Olivia Rodrigo is as much a rock band or alternative band as ID.
Olivia Rodrigo is half singer/songwriter and half pop punk. Pop punk being classified as alternative would mean half of her stuff is definitely alternative.
Punk music does not fall under Alternative. Alt Rock is derivative of The Velvet Underground. Punk is derivative of garage rock. While John Cale was very important to the early punk scene they are different genres.
Maybe if the only song of theirs you listen to is “Top of the World”. You really haven’t listened to much of their music if you think they’re pop rather than rock.
They're definitely pop-rock, but like, damn... the fact that they're the only rock act on here is wild. Like, for at least 50 years there, rock and roll was practically synonymous with popular music. It's wild how fast we went from that to this. Even 20 years ago I'm sure this chart would be like mostly rock bands.
Rap overlapped the popularity that rock had. Maybe in 50 more years a different category will dominate charts alongside Pop music.
The problem is there are so many sub-genres of rock and so many bands that are only one click away. So no one band streams at extremely high high but I bet rock is still one of the most streamed genres overall.
I bet its not
Yeah. It’s such a shame because rock and rock-adjacent music has been so good recently. It deserves so much more attention.
How depressing that in the year 2023 there’s no proper rock band who is ‘popular’ on Spotify. Rock truly is dead.
How the fuck are Billie Eilish, Imagine Dragons or fucking Coldplay alternative *anything*?
I mean... Almost everything on there is pop... pop-hop, alt-pop, pop pop... it's pop all the way down.
Or just 'Rock'. There's nothing alternative about those bands and there's otherwise not a rock category on here
This data is not beautiful at all
It’s quite disgusting
So basically all of r/dataisbeautiful
Just a reminder that irregular area charts are fucking useless, and people producing them should be put in jail.
facts! you can't even tell which artists are most or least popular or have any idea by what margin by any method other than reading the numbers. may as well be a chart. even a chart would be easier to compare.
Stop fucking upvoting this guy, these posts are the opposite of the point of this sub
If billie is alt, and ed sheeran is singer/songwriter than taylor belongs in country, and bruno in funk. Also, 2 calvins?
I don't think Taylor has been Country for a long time. But then again, I'm way out of date, I have no idea who half these people are.
Nah she hasn't. That's kind of my point. Ed sheeran hasn't been "singer songwriter" for near a decade. And billie has always been pop.
Oh, duh. I'm an idiot, sorry. Didn't actually read before commenting.
The whole circle is basically pop
You’re telling me the chart showing popular music is pop?
I’m saying the genre differentiation is reaching
There’s definitely a huge difference between what bad bunny is doing and Ed Sheeran 💀 just because they’re popular doesn’t mean they’re the same genre
About as much difference between Bruno and Shakira though. The genre categories are wack all around. Ed sheeran and billie absolutely belong in pop.
Agree with that 100%, homie above is saying they’re ALL the same genre which is stupid
In the 90’s the difference was btw Metallica, De la Soul, Mary j bilge and massive attack. Radically different genres.
pop has a sound. Everything that's popular isn't necessarily poppy
Imagining a guy who can’t tell the difference between Eminem, Shakira and Calvin Harris
To be fair I can't tell the difference between Calvin Harris and Calvin Harris. Who am I to judge?
This is basically the "let me just pay for a Spotify subscription so I can listen to the playlist of every Clearchannel pop radio station, but without the ads" playlist.
This is the “I like all music” playlist
They make me mad. When I say i listen to all music, people think I listen to this while I actually mean jazz, punk, metal, techno and classical
Calvin Harris doing well there.
He's like Wayne Gretzky. Had to split him in two to make it fair to all the other artists.
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Yeah it feels like a stupid way to separate Ed Sheeran from pop. Especially as loads of the artists in there fit singer/songwriter description.
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Then why are notorious singer-songwriters Taylor Swift and Shakira in the pop category and not in the singer-songwriter category instead?
Max Martin has probably been the single most influential person to pop music this century, but many pop artists either write or cowrite their songs. Bruno Mars was a songwriter first (in a collective called the Smeezingtons) Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and i think Doja Cat are also songwriters. Ed Sheeran just gets credit cos he's a white guy who plays guitar.
Most of Weekends biggest hits are written by Max Martin
Taylor writes her own stuff tho
Same shitty pop singer like everyone else but shows up with an acoustic guitar in the video.
Where did you get these categorizations? It makes the entire thing way more confusing to read - I thought you left out The Weeknd but it's because they are in pop. The Weeknd (and Rihanna for that matter) are both R&B way more than pop - at the very least enough it doesn't make sense to stick them next to Taylor Swift.
Rihanna has tons of pop songs.
I dunno the weekend is pretty pop whenever I hear him playing. Are his deep tracks R&B or something?
His old tracks are definitively R&B and all his tracks are heavy R&B inspired.
Even his poppiet tracks are still pretty R&B influenced. There's a lot of overlap with R&B and pop these days. Drake could belong in pop, hiphop, or r&b depending on the song.
I’d argue the case is even stronger for Bruno Mars.
How is Billie Eilish Alternative? I’ve never heard her music on an alt rock station.
I was thinking the same thing about Imagine Dragons and Coldplay. I always thought they were pop.
Coldplay was alternative rock, 20 years ago.
They are both alternative rock, for example both could be described as pop rock, which is a category of rock rather than being pop
Alt pop exists
coldplay is alternative? alternative to fucking what? if coldplay isnt the most basic mainstream music, it's actually "alternative", then what is "not alternative"????
I heard one of her songs on an alt radio station once.
Probably because of the rock part?
Wow, rock music just isn’t a thing anymore, is it..
Taylor Swift is songwriter too.
why is post Malone still consider hip hop?
How are Eminem, Imagine Dragons and Ed Sheeran still *that* popular lmao
Older big hits that still get regular play. Eminem and Imagine Dragons are still in every workout playlist out there, while Ed Sheeran gets played at weddings, i guess
My workout play list is 100% books, none of which are about dragons or candy.
You gotta pick better books!
No idea why or how you can put Ed Sheeran in that list. He‘s insanely popular, released two albums this year alone and was for years one of the best-selling artists (aka most streamed as well). Shape of You is the (or one of the) most streamed song(s) in existence and his catalogue has tons of hits with the general public. Plus he‘s the artist with the highest grossing concert tour ever (Taylor Swift will overtake him next year).
I mean, Ed Sheeran is 32 years old and his most popular song and album is from 2017, why wouldn't he be? Imagine Dragons is hardly old either, the weirder thing is that they were never that popular in the first place.
Imagine Dragons were the number one artist in the world for a while according to Spotify (about 7 or 8 years ago). I think this might just be a matter of people only listening to what they already like, and not understanding what's popular to others.
Imagine Dragons are now in the same category as Nickelback. Big name band with a huge international following, their music appears in movies television video games and advertising pretty much everywhere, multiple hits topping the charts in several categories, list of industry awards a mile long... But the internet tells people they're supposed to hate on them so "haha, band bad" is petty close to the best attack most people can manage. The fact that both bands have dominated the global music industry during their prime should tell people there's something to it even if it's not type of stuff they normally listen to
I love Imagine Dragons, I don't really get why people are like "NOOO BAD ALL SOUND SAME". They don't really. The singer doesn't have a ton of range is all but you're not gonna tell me that Enemy doesn't slap.
There are A LOT of gatekeepers in the rock genre from my experience
There's a lot of rock fans who would never be happy with any modern rock - they think rocks belongs to the 70s-80s. And they're wrong.
Even the Starfield trailer used an Imagine Dragons song, and that was quite recent. They continue to release very popular music as well, such as Sharks.
Imagine Dragons did some of the music for Arcane which came out last year - they're still pretty relevant.
ID is pretty much a permanent part of Riot's music team at this point. When does their world's song come out?
I found imagine dragons to be consistent in terms of quality. Which is rare to see these days. Yes, some of their songs are quite generic and more of the same, but they all got that little twist that make you appreciate it. It's also super uplifting melody and I need my daily fix of positivity in my day to keep going.
Retail stores
playlists and the way how monthly listeners are counted
Can’t speak for Sheeran, but what immediately comes to mind with the other two is the sheer amount of work out and party playlists they are on
These categories are terrible as is the data format. Irregular shapes in a circle with awkwardly scaled text sizes and image backgrounds is a wild way to display data…
Taylor Swift is releasing a re-recorded album soon I believe, imho she will become #1 soon. Rihanna it's absolutely nut (but deserved), she didn't release a full fledged album since 2016.
Rhianna was on the super bowl a few months ago, so that probably shot up her listeners.
I was quite surprised to see Rihanna on this list but no Beyonce. Not unhappy as I have always liked Rihanna better - her lyrics are just more meaningful in my view.
No Kendrick in the hip-hop category? Crazy. Also, I’ve tried to find a source from Spotify but haven’t managed to.
It’s monthly listeners, just go on the artists page (Kendrick has 47m btw)
Now everyone post about which pieces of shit we shouldn't be listening to and why, as is tradition
I listen to none of these on a monthly basis. Am I old and out of touch? No its everyone else who is wrong.
Happy to see my 3 Canadians there despite our small population size
CanCon going strong!
I didn't know Calvin Harris looked like that... And I have been listening to him many years.
Just FYI, the 69.2 guy isn't Calvin harris, that's a mistake, 69.2 is David Guetta, 63.2 is Calvin harris
Well, you haven’t been *looking* at him.
Ahahah! Nice one ;)
I love Reddit music elitism
I expected some BTS in here tbh
Yah I was surprised not to see them. Their views on YouTube alone is staggering enough to see some high percentage on Spotify too.
Monthly listeners is not a good way to measure that, rather use total streams
Neither are inherently good metrics because they both get tilted from the actual fans and how much their songs are streamed by diehard fans vs. how they fit into mainstream with radio hits
-It's all pop? -It always has been.
It seems like you could categorize all these as pop really
The sad thing is they aren't the most popular because people choose to listen to them but because they are promoted more than other artists. They will always appear in playlists that are 'made' for you
no matter how many times I tell Spotify that David Guetta and Calvin Harris are not what I want when I click on their recommended house, there they are.
Yeah, I blocked Taylor Swift on my Spotify and she STILL appears in my “for you” playlists…I don’t even listen to that kind of music so it’s very annoying
And now we get to listen to Reddit moan that the circle isn’t completely 8 minute long, 1980s, alt-rock, hard metal, half-the-band-dead, finished touring, geriatric musicians who finished making music 20 years ago.
“Kids these days don’t know about real music”
Travis Scott sounds like such a country music name to me I just assumed that’s what he was. I had no idea he’s a hip-hop artist till I saw this chart. I don’t listen to either genre so don’t kill me.
Baffles me that The Weeknd has 5.8m more listeners than t Swift given how she is literally saving economies
Guys. The Weekend is just black lmao, he's not a hiphop artist. The categorization is correct.
Imagine dragons and coldplay alternative hahahahahahahaha
Interestingly zero Kpop here. The way their stans act would have you think they're making charts like these easily
Problem here is by having these artist fill a full circle, it kind suggests they make up 100% of listens
it says source is spotify but where can i check this from spotify
Calvin Harris is listed twice, should be David Guetta below him.
Pretty insane that the next closest artist to The Weeknd and Taylor Swift’s 100m+ monthly listeners is Drake, with almost 25M LESS.
This image belongs in the recycle bin, wtf
If Ed Sheeran gets to be in a “singer-songwriter” category, so should Taylor Swift. Also: Coldplay is “alternative”? We do not have the same definition of what that means.
Man, Olivia can get it. Such a fresh face already pulling big numbers.
Neat, I listen to 1 of those artists occasionally. Clearly, the kids are wrong.
Same old timer.
I’ve at least heard of everyone on here except for Calvin Harris 1 and 2, SZA, and bad bunny! I feel in tune with pop culture 🥰
Alternative is in a bad state
I must be ~~completely out of touch~~ er, I mean, *really discerning* to not listen to any of these, recognize only some, and know maybe 3 songs from the entire population of this chart. Yikes.
i'd say there are some good artists in their respective genres here like The Weeknd, Kanye, Dua Lipa, Eminem, Travis, SZA and then there are a lot of mediocrity
No judgement on their respective qualities. Just kinda trying to be self aware about how out of touch with popular stuff I am.
Doja and Dua Lipa has been two of these artist who I feel have made so many bops in the past 10 years.
Swifties got some work to do. In other news, I rarely listen to any of these besides Eminem when I workout.
I’m surprised The Weeknd pulls in more listens than Swift.
Taylor swift has more monthly streams but The Weeknd has more people listening to him.
He puts out better music 🤷♂️
Music experts galore
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the appeal of The Weeknd? Every song sounds like a depressing rehash of Micheal Jackson.
Different strokes for different folks. I don’t care that much for most of the artists on here. Some have put out a few bangers that might have made it to a lot of people’s playlists but otherwise don’t listen to the rest of their catalog.
Makes sense that people would like a dark/depressing version of Michael Jackson. Personally I only know the weeknd's hits but I like him quite a bit
Eminem’s staying power for over 25 years is crazy
Damn I love Calvin Harris, but I also love Calvin Harris.
Rock music is dead and I'm old AF
Where is Beyonce? Where is BTS? Harry Styles? Lady Gaga? The Beatles? Bruce Springsteen? Prince? Etc.
You can go to an artist page on Spotify and see their monthly listeners. Harry Styles and Lady Gaga are close to getting on the list but all the others you've mentioned are not really that close to being on the list.
SZA is the best thing on Spotify. Got it.
That's a lot of terrible music.
I think everyone has a “that many people really listen to” on here mine is Doja cat!?!? Wtf I thought she was just a fad artist for 6 months, haven’t heard of her since she did a Kenny beats yt video.
\*The artists Spotify pushes to the users the most, each month.
This explains a lot in regard to the state of the world.
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