https://gizmodo.com/spotify-reveals-its-most-streamed-music-of-the-last-20-years-2000750160
My personal listenings, according to Spotify in my year-end wrap-up, didn’t seem like anything I had actually listened to, until I remembered that it included all the stuff in my audit queue, which isn’t necessarily stuff I like and could easily turn out to be something I wouldn’t cross the street for. That said, I would imagine their listing of the most streamed music of the last 20 years would be, well, indicative of true popularity. It should come as no surprise that only 2 of the top 20 artists appear in my main playlist, to wit, Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars. (And not much of them, honestly, but I like the ones I like.) OTOH, I have listened a bit to virtually all of the top artists except a couple I’ve never heard of (and that there are a couple I’ve never heard of should also come as no surprise). My hit rate does not change with most-played songs or albums, and I have listened to none of their top podcasts. Shockingly, I’ve read two of their big audiobooks, and you guessed them: Tolkien and Martin. (I’ve also read—and enjoyed—Taylor Jenkins Reid, but that was for the Day Job so it doesn’t really count.)
Did you do any better being hip/hep/cool/wired/plugged-in or whatever than I did?
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