Is there one artist who stands out as the most popular artist?Īnswer: kind of, but not by much. If you're a fan of some of the songs we've been discussing, you might have noticed that there are several artists whose songs appear multiple times on one or both lists. Bad and Boujee by Migos, 4th on the Billboard list, is only at number 36 on Spotify! Even more dramatically, Sam Hunt's Body Like a Back Road is 6th on Billboard but 71st on Spotify! Clearly, the most popular songs depend on who you ask. Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE is also a clear favorite at 3rd on Billboard and 5th on Spotify. Luis Fonsi's Despacito is another winner of these rankings, appearing at number 2 on Billboard and numbers 2 and 3 on Spotify (courtesy of the Daddy Yankee remix). While there are almost no songs in the top 10 on either list that don't appear anywhere on the other list, the orders are far from identical. We can visualize the differences in the rankings using a slope graph.Įd Sheeran's Shape of You wins out on both lists! In fact, this pop hit has been streamed over a billion times since its release in January 2017.Īfter that, though, the lists diverge almost immediately. We can see that there are similarities, but that the lists are far from identical. These are the most streamed songs of 2017. Each year, Spotify releases a playlist of the 100 most streamed songs for that year. The Swedish streaming service has a vast catalogue of 20 million songs. 140 million people worldwide are active users of Spotify, with around half of those using the paid Premium service. The table below shows the 2017 Year-End chart.īut that's not the only way we can see which songs are popular. An annual "year end" chart is also released, ranking that year's songs by calculating a cumulative total of sales, airplay, and streaming. Billboard states that the approximate weighting is 35-45% for sales, 30-40% for airplay, and 20-30% for streaming. Nowadays, chart rankings are based on a combination of sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming in the United States. Billboard has been charting the "Hot 100" songs weekly since 1958. But can data science reveal the most popular music? Join us as we find out! Measuring popularityĪn obvious way to measure music's popularity is through the charts. Music is an integral part of our pop culture.
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