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Of the top 50 streamed artists only 5 are widely known for playing any musical instruments at all, with two of them, The Beatles and Queen no longer making music. So, how are the rest musicians? How can we call it music?
taylor swift- plays piano and guitar
ed sheeran- plays guitar
justin bieber- plays piano, guitar and drums
post malone- plays guitar
billie eilish- plays ukulele
coldplay- multiple instrumentalists
imagine dragons- multiple instrumentalists
bruno mars- plays piano, guitars and drums
maroon 5- multiple instrumentalists
shawn mendes- plays piano and guitar
harry styles- plays piano and guitar
lady gaga- plays piano
one direction- all members can play guitar or piano
shakira- plays guitar and drums
linkin park- multiple instrumentalists
artic monkeys- multiple instrumentalists (who in your view make “real music”)
these are just from the top of my head. don’t be ignorant.
it doesn’t matter anyway, music is not about how well you can strum a guitar but about how you can make music that connects with people and sounds good.. no matter the format, genre or instruments involved.
Queen first actually, and then much later The Beatles. And the Beatles only rate so highly is because they spend millions of pounds promoting themselves, via for example, that terrible Number one single last year which hit on hype, not talent.
Please put together Agust D and SUGA, it's the same artist Min Yoongi of BTS.
Something like Agust D/Suga.
I'm surprised bands like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses have more +1B streamed songs than Beatles, Stones and Pink Floyd combined.
Seasonal greetings! Hope you are enjoying the end of year festivities. Could you please check the One Direction numbers and rank in the Most Streamed Artists on Spotify rankings? From my understanding, One Direction have never been 'Featured Artists'? Many thanks!
It seems there was a glitch in your system with 10 billion streams cut for Taylor Swift
Yep it seems an album was glitched for a couple of days, now it's back to normal!
A small message to inform you that the streaming tool version was upgraded. Various artists will register decent jumps today or in the upcoming days, as the new version is able to identify songs that were previously overlooked. Obviously, this will corrupt some dailys for today.
