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Most streamed Legacy Female artists; Madonna over Mariah. Why?


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Most streamed legacy era female artists on Spotify 

 

Jan 19 

 

1. Madonna 3.63M

2. WhitneyHouston 3.31M

3. MariahCarey 3.02M

 

Jan 18 

 

1. Madonna 3.65M

2. WhitneyHouston 3.26M

3. MariahCarey 2.95M

 

Jan 17 

 

1. Madonna 3.33M

2. WhitneyHouston 3.12M

3. MariahCarey 2.86M

 

 

Why is Madonna ahead of Mariah despite one having better exposure due to xmas. Mariah gets huge amount of promotion every year which Whitney or Madonna don't. 

 

But they are still ahead. Why?

And the gap will only become big by mid year when full exposure of Christmas is over.

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Because MADONNA is simply the most legendary female artist of all times

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It's a Wrap is coming, I fear 

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6 minutes ago, idkwiam said:

Because MADONNA is simply the most legendary female artist of all times

 

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This is so shocking actually??? How even lmao i can’t??? 

I mean mariah is literally so pushed and promoted nowadays every year due to seasonal boost but once the season is over it’s not even enough to out-stream whitney 

 

also the fact that Madonna has destroyed her image so much but ig GP is still going for music which is very impressive 

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I've been saying Maria's Xmas catalogue, while very successful and dominant, is way bigger than Miss Carey Herself. The hundreds of millions of impressions she gets every year fail to reach the rest of her catalogue throughout the year :sorry:

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Whitney is the most impressive one since the other two have 2x more albums than her.

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3 minutes ago, Alongoria13 said:

I've been saying Maria's Xmas catalogue, while very successful and dominant, is way bigger than Miss Carey Herself. The hundreds of millions of impressions she gets every year fail to reach the rest of her catalogue throughout the year :sorry:

Well that’s not true.
 

Mariah amassed 1.4B Spotify streams in 2022. About 450M of that was her Xmas catalogue (two albums + an EP + a handful of singles). So her non-Xmas catalogue had roughly twice the amount of streams. 
 

For comparison, Madonna received 1.1B Spotify streams in 2022.  Both because of several TikTok viral hits, new remixes (Frozen, Material Girl, Hung Up) and a healthy boost to her catalogue. 
 

OT: Madonna’s catalogue is seeing a boost with her Tour announcement and Back That Up To The Beat going viral. Not sure what’s going on with Whitney as she’s usually below both Madonna and Mariah - maybe her movie? 

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5 minutes ago, Both Sides Now said:

Well that’s not true.
 

Mariah amassed 1.4B Spotify streams in 2022. About 450M of that was her Xmas catalogue (two albums + an EP + a handful of singles). So her non-Xmas catalogue had roughly twice the amount of streams. 
 

For comparison, Madonna received 1.1B Spotify streams in 2022.  Both because of several TikTok viral hits, new remixes (Frozen, Material Girl, Hung Up) and a healthy boost to her catalogue. 
 

OT: Madonna’s catalogue is seeing a boost with her Tour announcement and Back That Up To The Beat going viral. Not sure what’s going on with Whitney as she’s usually below both Madonna and Mariah - maybe her movie? 

And Mariah was back to out-streaming Madonna as early as September of last year. Not sure why OP didn’t make this thread then? 

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I thought Mariah outstreamed Madonna monthly and not just during the Xmas season?

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This thread is a bit misleading cause Mariah always goes ahead once December hits

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7 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

And Mariah was back to out-streaming Madonna as early as September of last year. Not sure why OP didn’t make this thread then? 

She started to out stream Madonna in start of November, not September 

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They are very close. Also are we surprised that the biggest female artist of all time is slightly ahead?  

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29 minutes ago, whtvrdude said:

Madonna has a TikTok hit rn.

Isn’t it’s a wrap also being viral on tiktok ?

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1 minute ago, suburbannature said:

And Mariah was back to out-streaming Madonna as early as September of last year. Not sure why OP didn’t make this thread then? 

The argument is brought up ad naseum and every time it’s been shown that Mariah’s catalogue simply outperforms Madonna.
 

2022 was a great year for Madonna’s Spotify performance. It was the first time her catalogue categorically outperformed Mariah excluding Xmas. Usually Mariah’s catalogue does about the same or better than Madonna without Xmas:

 

2021: Madonna 872M total 

2021: Mariah 1.2B total (~350M Xmas music)


Madonna is doing great on streaming right now. I’m not sure why Madonna stans feel the need to always include Mariah in the conversation when Mariah easily outstreams unless you remove her biggest hits. The numbers just don’t support their narrative. 
 

Some Madonna stans get forgetful in their old age, unfortunately.

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5 minutes ago, byzantium said:

They are very close. Also are we surprised that the biggest female artist of all time is slightly ahead?  

Mariah's music has aged so much better though. Maybe because Madonna has more songs. Probably. And even more recent albums too. 

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Madonna is in her own league. She had hundreds of thousands of people trying to get tickets for her shows. None of her peers can compare.

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Just now, Aristotle said:

Mariah's music has aged so much better though. Maybe because Madonna has more songs. Probably. And even more recent albums too. 

That’s subjective.  I think both have some timeless classics but much of their discographies are a bit dated in their respective times.  But that’s me.

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13 minutes ago, Nnnv said:

She started to out stream Madonna in start of November, not September 

Wrong. It started in mid-September and continued. They had been playing league frog or neck and neck the entire year prior as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And for October 2022:

Mariah - 91,259,619

Madonna - 88,776,323

 

 

 

 

Mariah also regularly charts catalogue albums (Daydream, Emancipation, Music Box typically) on Apple Music and its a fair assumption that she does far better there. She also regularly appears on charts for Melon and other Asian streaming platforms.

 

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This topic is honestly irritating because it's done to death, these two are the top tier 80s/90s divas, and the numbers are so similar (and the lead switching so much) that it's not worth threading. Idk why we let people like OP troll and flamebait successfully. 

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