artist stats Billie Eilish surpasses Taylor Swift, has the most monthly listeners on Spotify

[Capris Groove]

Congrats! Records are made to be broken.

[Juánny]

The metric isn't irrelevant as the Swifties are saying, but it also isn't a be all and end all. It means many / a similar number (~90m) unique accounts played Billie and Taylor in the past 30 days. All this metric is telling us is that a similar number of people are streaming Billie and Taylor currently on the platform. But, it is very impressive for an artist like Billie, who is a "newer" artist, to have a similar number of people streaming her as Taylor, who is arguably the biggest artist in the world currently. Good for her. 

[mercurialworld]

it's so crazy to see her rise of fame being that i knew her when she had less than 40k followers on ig and she was besties with my bestie  congrats queen

[Tropical]

HMHAS is a great album, what can we expect

[Matthew4815]

Oh you know she maddd. SEETHE.

[TouchinFree]

Well Billie has a very versatile audience transcending to multiple cultures and ethnicities. 

 

[grAntVRIL]

loving the new billie's album. i cant stand ttpd sorry  

[elincomprendid]

It's funny people use the discography size excuse as if the #4 & #5 artists didn't basically have a similar discography size 

 

Billie — 4 albums

Post Malone — 5 albums

Sabrina — 5 albums

 

And clearly none of Sabrina listeners come from whatever her first 4 albums are.

 

Yeah monthly listeners isn't a meaningless metric but nowadays is just all about:

 

1) Autoplay/Smart Shuffle (bringing new people that usually wouldn't play you)

2) Playlisting (bringing new people that usually wouldn't play you)

3) Having a big single (keeping people, cause albums don't usually have the same stability as songs plus singles usually have better WW reach than albums)

4) Collaborations (extend your reach over your usual audience)

 

You can have all that and end almost anyone in the ML department.

 

Sabrina has a bigger ML peak than Bad Bunny and no one with 2 brain cells would think that she is a bigger artist than him 

[FrederickGa]

Congrats to ORGANIC Success

[Triton]

What happened to supporting women? Isn't the #1 the real devil?!  This is screaming misogyny!! Congrats Billie! 

[KillingYourCareer]

Impressive, but her new album is great after all

[liam13]

4 hours ago, Burn said:

not swiftys saying "this metric is meaningless" when they are usually ALL about stats.  apart from when it doesn't go in their favour, i guess.

think about it. swifties "are all about stats" but even swifties don't care about this irrelevant metric. why should yall? cuz taylor went down a spot? 

[LVP]

Is it also meaningless that Billies 10 tracks album has been more streamed weekly (for 7 weeks) than Taylor's 31 tracks album?

[Cooper]

It's a bit of a whatever metric. But matterless of that it's great for Billie to be so high. May it long continue.

[yourcloud]

She deserved and cleared xx

Edited July 7 by yourcloud

[Rep2000]

4 hours ago, TouchinFree said:

Well Billie has a very versatile audience transcending to multiple cultures and ethnicities. 

 

[CherryBay]

Will she now release different variants for Spotify now? 

[Arknex]

yay, Billie 

[NEX]

10 hours ago, єѕℓαм said:

And with only 77 songs 

now that's impressive 

That's almost as many as TTPD across all the variants! 

[skyandground]

The evil is defeated 

[OrgVisual]

8 hours ago, Johnny said:

The metric isn't irrelevant as the Swifties are saying, but it also isn't a be all and end all. It means many / a similar number (~90m) unique accounts played Billie and Taylor in the past 30 days. All this metric is telling us is that a similar number of people are streaming Billie and Taylor currently on the platform. But, it is very impressive for an artist like Billie, who is a "newer" artist, to have a similar number of people streaming her as Taylor, who is arguably the biggest artist in the world currently. Good for her. 

U forgot to mention that you only need to stream 1 song to be counted as a Monthly Listener. And Taylor's discography is like 5 times the size of Billie's

[OrgVisual]

Swifties: "this is IRRELEVANT"

 

The same Swifties:

 

 

 

[Miley Cyrus]

Just like Godley did in 2023 with 1 track  

10 tracks did that! Yay Billie

Edited July 7 by Miley Cyrus

[Dear Reader]

33 minutes ago, OrgVisual said:

Swifties: "this is IRRELEVANT"

 

The same Swifties:

 

 

 

point to where i said this was irrelevant… quickly. 

i even congratulated Billie, something you couldn't do if it was the other way around 

[PoisonedIvy]

1 hour ago, OrgVisual said:

Swifties: "this is IRRELEVANT"

 

The same Swifties:

 

 

 

And yet very early on in one of those very threads, a couple of Swifties called it an irrelevant metric.

 

 

 
 

We are consistent. We know what stats are impressive and which ones are not.

 

Which brings me to my next point, a talking point that you all have been trying to will into existence for years now:

 

 

 

Edited July 7 by PoisonedIvy