Surprises from Analyzing Spotify Streaming Data

The data is hugely skewed because they&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mbw.44bytes.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;BuzzAngle-Music-2018-US-Report-Industry.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mbw.44bytes.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;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&#x27;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&#x2F;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&#x27;m surprised this wasn&#x27;t the case with Mac Miller&#x27;s death, although maybe it did it just didn&#x27;t top the charts.

Interesting to see that almost all of non-US top hits are seemingly Latin American.

I&#x27;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&#x27;m hoping there&#x27;s a few gems in these lists.

I’m getting old. Never heard of a single one of these artists.