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In todays streaming era: How many Spotify streams counts as a hit song?


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In todays streaming era, how many Spotify streams counts as a hit song?  

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  1. 1. How many?

    • 100 million+
      2
    • 200 million+
      0
    • 300 million+
      1
    • 400 million+
      1
    • 500 million+
      23
    • 600 million+
      6
    • 700 million+
      5
    • 800 million+
      1
    • 900 million+
      0
    • 1 billion+
      10


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Overall or just Spotify?

 

500-700m Spotify decent hit

 

800-900 big hit

 

1 bill huge smash 

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I feel like there's no one good answer. A song can be a hit if it gets to 100-200 million streams really quickly and then settles down and stabilizes, and a song can also be a hit if it steadily accrues streams and eventually hits 1 billion.  

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3 minutes ago, Dula Peep said:

Overall or just Spotify?

 

500-700m Spotify decent hit

 

800-900 big hit

 

1 bill huge smash 

Just Spotify 

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Depends on the time period involved.  If it hits:

 

1 billion in under a year it is a big hit.

1 billion in under two years it is a moderate hit.

1 billion in under four years is a hit

 

 

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It depends on the artist 

 

200m for Taylor, Harry, The weeknd or drake is a massive flop

 

200m for Britney, kesha, katy, gaga or ava max is definitely a hit

 

It’s really about the artist

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1B+ = Classic / Career Staple

 

750M - 1B = Smash 


250M - 750M = Hit 

 

100M - 250M = Modern Hit / Viral Hit

 

*For older gen artists, 200-500M+ are hits and/or classics in they discographies.

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3 minutes ago, Trent W said:

It depends on the artist 

 

200m for Taylor, Harry, The weeknd or drake is a massive flop

 

200m for Britney, kesha, katy, gaga or ava max is definitely a hit

 

It’s really about the artist

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn:rip:

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11 minutes ago, Devin said:

1B+ = Classic / Career Staple

 

750M - 1B = Smash 


250M - 750M = Hit 

 

100M - 250M = Modern Hit / Viral Hit

 

*For older gen artists, 200-500M+ are hits and/or classics in they discographies.

25M - 100M = Gift For The Fans

 

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For songs released in 2023/nowadays, in a year:

 

500M+ moderate success

800M+ success

1B+ smash

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It depends tbh

 

If we're talking about songs where the majority of streams come from Spotify & are "global", then I guess 500 million.

 

Some songs depending on the genre or artist are much stronger on Apple Music

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Catalogue music from before 2010: 300 - 500 million = smash

 

New music of today: 1,5bn - (open end) = smash.

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A song by an indie artist could do like 100-200m over time and I’d consider that a hit. 
 

For a mainstream artist with TTH and playlist promotion, 500m sounds about right 

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2 hours ago, pinkdiamond said:

700m+ is an actual hit. Too many irrelevant songs have 500m

The amount of random ass EDM songs with 1 Bil tho is crazy :psyduck:

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