charts discussion The Weeknd coming to dethrone Taylor Swift

[C-Amber]

It looks like The Weeknd will be back to his favourite #1 place on Spotify, while Taylor lost ~700K in the last 3 days, and Abel gained ~500K. 

 

Spoiler

December 30:

#1. Taylor Swift — 110,222,712 (-476,633) 

#2. The Weeknd — 110,151,889 (+154,975)

 

December 28:

#1. Taylor Swift — 111,056,233 (-116,892) 

#2. The Weeknd — 109,888,354 (+198,538)

 

December 27:

#1. Taylor Swift — 111,229,612 (+116,892) 

#2. The Weeknd — 109,689,816 (+237,507)

 

December 24:

#1. Taylor Swift — 109,657,168 (+193,038) 

#2. The Weeknd — 109,141,909 (+ 224,490)

 

What's going on? Taylor has released 2 albums on the past 2 years while been on public eyes and attention all the time, but the weeknd only released one album in early 2022 and some collaborations, and his show the Idol was hated so much that people wanted to cancel him, but he's slowly will get back to #1 and dethrone the #1 artist in the world right now?

 

 

 

EDIT!

 

to those who saying it's playlisting:

 

Current Playlists:

Taylor Swift: 55.8K

The Weeknd: 89.8K

 

Total current playlists reach:

Taylor Swift: 762M

The Weeknd: 746M

 

From songstats.com

Edited December 30, 2023 by C-Amber

[Johnny Jacobs]

The idol showed that he is pretty much nasty and into some weird ****. Nothing worth canceling tbh. 

 

The gp doesn't care when they stream his music.

 

Of course he's still successful 

Edited December 30, 2023 by Johnny Jacobs

[St. Charles]

Is this overall streams or monthly listeners?

[Klein]

And how is he doing in daily streams? Do the listeners just play him because he's in every playlists or are they willingly diving into his catalogue? 

[Cruel Summer]

9 minutes ago, St. Charles said:

Is this overall streams or monthly listeners?

Looks like monthly listeners. He’s always been pretty strong in that metric, I think.

[305]

9 minutes ago, St. Charles said:

Is this overall streams or monthly listeners?

Monthly of course. Taylor is still #1 on will continue to be #1 in daily streams 

[By the Water]

Further proof that monthly listeners mean nothing

[Kill Me]

If we go by monthly listeners bullshit Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey will turn out to be the most relevant artists of 2023.

If the listeners don't turn into actual streams, it's useless. It's all depended on playlisting anyways.

[americanlife]

It’s because people are streaming The Weeknd’s singles and one off tracks, whereas people are streaming Taylor’s full length projects or playing physical copies.

[Sonny]

Talented singers will always win. 

[magazine]

2 legends 

[EtherealCat]

luckily for him nobody watched the idol

[tomo]

Dethrone in.. playlisting? 

 

https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/artist-global-daily/2023-12-29

 

#1 Taylor Swift 80M+

#2 Bad Bunny 50M+

#3 Drake 40M+

#4 The Weeknd 40M+

 

Why isn't he getting the same amount streams in return with the same amount of listeners reached? Bad investment?

Edited December 30, 2023 by tomo

[BtDecember]

It’s so funny that suddenly ATRLers are invested to Spotify Monthly Listeners as if it is a sole metric that measures an artist’s popularity. Yeah because at the end of the year, Spotify crowns the highest number of listeners, not the artist with the highest total of streams received during the year 

 

[Katamari]

[BtDecember]

4 minutes ago, americanlife said:

It’s because people are streaming The Weeknd’s singles and one off tracks, whereas people are streaming Taylor’s full length projects or playing physical copies.

This, ATRLers tend to forget that Taylor's music is also highly consumed in other platforms. A significant portion of her huge fanbase is listening to their PURCHASED copies (me included), and if you play her songs in those copies, they do NOT get added to the total streams.

[FolkLover1989]

27 minutes ago, C-Amber said:

It looks like The Weeknd will be back to his favourite #1 place on Spotify, while Taylor lost ~700K in the last 3 days, and Abel gained ~500K. 

 

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December 30:

#1. Taylor Swift — 110,222,712 (-476,633) 

#2. The Weeknd — 110,151,889 (+154,975)

 

December 28:

#1. Taylor Swift — 111,056,233 (-116,892) 

#2. The Weeknd — 109,888,354 (+198,538)

 

December 27:

#1. Taylor Swift — 111,229,612 (+116,892) 

#2. The Weeknd — 109,689,816 (+237,507)

 

December 24:

#1. Taylor Swift — 109,657,168 (+193,038) 

#2. The Weeknd — 109,141,909 (+ 224,490)

 

What's going on? Taylor has released 2 albums on the past 2 years while been on public eyes and attention all the time, but the weeknd only released one album in early 2022 and some collaborations, and his show the Idol was hated so much that people wanted to cancel him, but he's slowly will get back to #1 and dethrone the #1 artist in the world right now?!

You tried hard but failed lmfao

 

He has so many collaboration in cross-genre off course he will have more ML

 

Let's talk about streams?

sales?

 

oh wait nvm lol

[Solaria]

I thought this was in daily streams, this means nothing 

[Cheers]

TIGHT, FAT, WET bumbo always wins

[C-Amber]

23 minutes ago, Klein said:

And how is he doing in daily streams? Do the listeners just play him because he's in every playlists or are they willingly diving into his catalogue? 

Other then his greatest hits that are still Charting everywhere (Blinding Light, Die For you...etc) here are his daily numbers of some of his songs

 

One Of The Girls (3.6M)

Popular (2.4M)

Creeping (1.6M)

Stargirl Interlude (1.4M)

The Hills (1.2M)

Reminder (1M)

I Was Never There (922K)

Is There Someone Else? (910K)

After Hours (800M)

 

He jas 26 songs that's doing at least 500K daily streams. 

 

[The Music Industry]

Monthly listeners is all in all a pretty irrelevant statistics, mostly reliant on your playlist reach. We've been saying it forever. 

 

Playlist reach

The Weeknd: 1.41B

Taylor Swift: 1.16B

 

[Taylena]

20 minutes ago, Juanny said:

Taylor and the Weeknd have a similar number of unique people listening, but Taylor’s unique listeners are streaming her doubly as much on average.

Yeah, Taylor's streams are from people that fully intended to stream her music, while The Weeknd has people casually finding his songs on playlists but they rarely listen to him again, which explains why Taylor is doubling his streams. 

[C-Amber]

41 minutes ago, Miss Americana said:

If we go by monthly listeners bullshit Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey will turn out to be the most relevant artists of 2023.

If the listeners don't turn into actual streams, it's useless. It's all depended on playlisting anyways.

 

The Weeknd been getting 40M-70M daily streams in 2023 when he released no album.

[Into The Void]

4 minutes ago, C-Amber said:

 

The Weeknd been getting 40M-70M daily streams in 2023 when he released no album.

This is very good and acting otherwise is foolish

[C-Amber]

45 minutes ago, tomo said:

Dethrone in.. playlisting? 

 

https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/artist-global-daily/2023-12-29

 

#1 Taylor Swift 80M+

#2 Bad Bunny 50M+

#3 Drake 40M+

#4 The Weeknd 40M+

 

Why isn't he getting the same amount streams in return with the same amount of listeners reached? Bad investment?

 

Tbh It shows Taylor have great fandom that will constantly stream her music, while Able will have more casual listeners enjoying music in general, because he's getting those numbers without any new album. Both great.

 

44 minutes ago, BtDecember said:

It’s so funny that suddenly ATRLers are invested to Spotify Monthly Listeners as if it is a sole metric that measures an artist’s popularity. Yeah because at the end of the year, Spotify crowns the highest number of listeners, not the artist with the highest total of streams received during the year 

 

What's wrong with ML? It's literally showing how many accounts streaming X artists, which is great info.