The data is hugely skewed because they're only looking at the top 200 each day. There are 50m tracks on streaming services and the popularity of the long tail is growing.<p>The 500 most streamed tracks in the US received just 10.7% of total audio streams in 2018, down from 14.6% in 2017. There were 36.3m different tracks streamed across the year, up from 33.2m in 2017.<p><a href="https://cdn.mbw.44bytes.net/files/2019/01/BuzzAngle-Music-2018-US-Report-Industry.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.mbw.44bytes.net/files/2019/01/BuzzAngle-Music-20...</a>
No surprises. I kept scrolling to find the “surprise”.<p>I would have been much more interested if you’d said “we can scrape Spotify: here is what we found when X”<p>As it happens I’ve “requested access” but nearly hit the back button because I was looking for the surprise and didn’t see it.
Nice work, though I didn't find any actual surprises in the list.<p>Also, looking at the data source (spotifycharts.com), they offer csv downloads of all the charts, which makes it a weird choice to showcase this apparent html scraper library/service?
This is pretty cool. The one factoid that stood out to me was everyone flocking to listen to SAD! by XXXTENTACION the day after he was assassinated.<p>I'm surprised this wasn't the case with Mac Miller's death, although maybe it did it just didn't top the charts.
I've been wondering for years what people listen to. Spotify and YouTube have kept me in a bubble and I have no clue what people are listening to. I'm hoping there's a few gems in these lists.