charts discussion Streaming Discussion | Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, etc.

[Temporal]

Is anyone else's Spotify glitching play counts? Everything is <1,000 plays for me, I just want to see how Christina Grimmie's new single is doing   

[iHype.]

9 minutes ago, Temporal said:

Is anyone else's Spotify glitching play counts? Everything is <1,000 plays for me, I just want to see how Christina Grimmie's new single is doing   

 

35,516 streams to date.

[Temporal]

Just now, iHype. said:

 

35,516 streams to date.

 

 

Deserves better  But not unexpected sadly.

[blackbeatxx]

How many subscribers does AM have? That could give us an idea

[alexanderao]

4 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said:

How many subscribers does AM have? That could give us an idea

From HDD on 1/27:

 

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Spotify’s subscriber base has grown to 120m worldwide, 44.5m paid, 12m in the U.S. (compared to 9m for Apple Music). But the ad-supported free tier, with its 75.5m users, can’t be ignored

 

[blackbeatxx]

43 minutes ago, alexanderao said:

From HDD on 1/27:

 

 

9 compared to  12, 44,5 or 120?

[Monster Megamind]

2 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said:

9 compared to  12, 44,5 or 120?

9 compared to 12 in the USA 

[Monster Megamind]

Just now, Monster Megamind said:

9 compared to 12 in the USA 

And 12 million premium USA spotify subscribers compared to 44.5 million Spotify Premium subscribers worldwide 

[dwuw]

Selena's #4 WW today  

[Agnes Ng]

1 hour ago, Stark said:

Selena's #4 WW today  

i am happy for her.... 

[simmnfierzig]

9 hours ago, SkinnyGaga said:

Do we have any idea how much streams the no 1 song on Apple Music gets? Has a figure been published anywhere?

I'm thinking in the 600k range. A lot more when we have a new Drake Apple exclusive or something.

[iHype.]

Sam Hunt #22 on US Spotify.

The amount of men in the Top 50 though.  So sad. I hope trends like that have to do with Spotify being run by the male teen-young adult demographic currently, and don't continue in the future once all demographics use Spotify widely.

[SkinnyGaga]

8 minutes ago, iHype. said:

 

Sam Hunt #22 on US Spotify.

The amount of men in the Top 50 though.  So sad. I hope trends like that have to do with Spotify being run by the male teen-young adult demographic currently, and don't continue in the future once all demographics use Spotify widely.
 

 

I think this is the problem with streaming, it doesnt represent every genre. Ofc a country song isnt going to do well on spotify when the market for country music is physical and digital singles. Billboard should change the formula to make it 33% Radio, 33% Digital, 33% Streaming. Everything equal so it equally represents how listeners consume music!

[alexanderao]

2 hours ago, SkinnyGaga said:

I think this is the problem with streaming, it doesnt represent every genre. Ofc a country song isnt going to do well on spotify when the market for country music is physical and digital singles. Billboard should change the formula to make it 33% Radio, 33% Digital, 33% Streaming. Everything equal so it equally represents how listeners consume music!

If the H100 formula was actually based on the number of people using a particular metric, radio would (by far) be the most important factor.

[SkinnyGaga]

13 minutes ago, alexanderao said:

If the H100 formula was actually based on the number of people using a particular metric, radio would (by far) be the most important factor.

I agree, but to a certain extent, you know the argument already.. Radio doesnt reflect what the Gp likes necessarily 

[blackbeatxx]

Why y'all saying selena's song? It's Kygo feat Selena and Kygo is a bigger global streaming artist than Selena.

[simmnfierzig]

8 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said:

Why y'all saying selena's song? It's Kygo feat Selena and Kygo is a bigger global streaming artist than Selena.

Well we discuss mostly US charts here and there Selena is far more relevant.

And also are you really asking why ATRL is focussing on the female? lol.

[SkinnyGaga]

9 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said:

Why y'all saying selena's song? It's Kygo feat Selena and Kygo is a bigger global streaming artist than Selena.

Its also technically a duet as she isn't labelled a feature. Plus what ever success this song has, lays on the shoulders of Selena, not Kygo

[blackbeatxx]

1 minute ago, simmnfierzig said:

Well we discuss mostly US charts here and there Selena is far more relevant.

And also are you really asking why ATRL is focussing on the female? lol.

I understand what you say and tbh my Q is a bit rhetorical, but my point stands here ;)

[blackbeatxx]

Just now, SkinnyGaga said:

Its also technically a duet as she isn't labelled a feature. Plus what ever success this song has, lays on the shoulders of Selena, not Kygo

Ok it's a duet, that's fair. But why is its eventual success dependant on Selena? In US/SA maybe, but Kygo has 2 songs with more streams than any Selena song has...

[SkinnyGaga]

1 minute ago, blackbeatxx said:

Ok it's a duet, that's fair. But why is its eventual success dependant on Selena? In US/SA maybe, but Kygo has 2 songs with more streams than any Selena song has...

I guess your right in that sense tbh. Firestone was pretty big

[alexanderao]

6 minutes ago, blackbeatxx said:

Ok it's a duet, that's fair. But why is its eventual success dependant on Selena? In US/SA maybe, but Kygo has 2 songs with more streams than any Selena song has...

Because Kygo is completely unknown here outside of the DJ community

[alexanderao]

29 minutes ago, SkinnyGaga said:

I agree, but to a certain extent, you know the argument already.. Radio doesnt reflect what the Gp likes necessarily 

Well, neither do sales. In fact, sales are reflecting that less and less as the buying public shrinks.

[SkinnyGaga]

4 minutes ago, alexanderao said:

Well, neither do sales. In fact, sales are reflecting that less and less as the buying public shrinks.

But their still relevant in the sense that listeners of Genres such as country and Ballad Pop are still majority on iTunes... 

[alexanderao]

9 minutes ago, SkinnyGaga said:

But their still relevant in the sense that listeners of Genres such as country and Ballad Pop are still majority on iTunes... 

This reasoning is likely why Billboard continues to try to retain their influence, yes. But as iHype said earlier, hopefully this discrepancy will become increasingly insignificant as broader swaths of the public adopt streaming. But we're in a transitional period for the industry, so things like this will happen.