Skits on rap albums is a difficult case indeed, personally I would disregard them and only look at the least streamed songs, in the case of The Marshall Mathers LP that would be Amityville (23m) and Remember Me (24m).

I don't understand your last point though, especially the examples of Fitter Happier and Four Sticks, here are the least streamed songs on these albums :

The Tourist - 23m
Electioneering - 22.6m
Fitter Happier - 17.9m

Misty Mountain Hop - 40m
The Battle Of Evermore - 24.9m
Four Sticks - 15.7m

How are these "skip favorites" ? To me they just indicate people listening to the entire albums.

As for the number of tracks, yes the higher the number the less likely people will listen to the entire album, that's why double albums are riskier than normal albums, but I'm not sure how relevant it is to this discussion.

I made one a few posts above and someone downvoted it, maybe it's you ? That would be pretty funny.

Love to see Mr Brightside becoming such a classic, one of my favorite songs from the 2000s.

I'm not sure what happened with Coolio but I think his song got considerable exposure when it was used to promote that Sonic movie from 2020 so that might be the explanation...

These 'skip favorites' are indicative of people listening to the albums, no doubt! My point was the opposite, there are more people listening to these albums (OK Computer / IV), it's just that for some reason one track is skipped more often than the others. And some other people will skip another.

In the end, there may have been 30m+ streams of 'IV' from start to finish, but with Four Sticks skipped 1 time every 2, or The Battle Of Evermore 1 time every 6. The thing is, an album with tracks at 40-39-38-17 million certainly got more 'entire' streams, although with 1 skip, than albums with songs at 24-23-22-22 million. It would be unfair to say that the former is less streamed than the latter, just because it has 1 track skipped more often. If we try to argue we can't look at hits to gauge the streaming success of an album (which I don't agree with but it's another subject), then certainly we can't look at 1 skip favorite to gauge the streaming success of an album either. There are skits, there are 'talked' tracks like Fitter Happier, or What's Ya Phone #, or simply a track not as strong at the end, which doesn't benefit from being in-between super strong tracks. Throw there Endless, Nameless, Oh Daddy and so many more there. To me there are no way Ride The Lightning is more streamed than Nevermind just because Escape has more streams than Endless, Nameless.

The number of tracks is highly relevant because it impacts the time needed an album. If we want to know the most streamed albums, people listening albums from start to finish are also very willing to do it multiple times. It isn't the same if an album is 40 minutes long or 120 minutes long. The same streaming session will give 3 times more 'album streams' to the former, yet it hasn't really been more streamed.

For example, it's clear that Hamilton has been streamed more than DSOTM. It's least streamed song has 50 million plays, less than 65 million yes, but it has 46 tracks running for 142 minutes. How many people get 142 minutes available at once to play an album? The way all its tracks are at 50 million or more is insane, people spent much more time streaming it than DSOTM and there have been undoubtedly much more people doing it too, we can't overlook that.

By the way, you said yourself to be looking for 'people listening to entire albums, not just a few songs'. Several of the albums you list yet do have only 'a few songs'. How can we put Kind of Blue ahead of Back In Black when each song of the former, ranked in streams order, has way, way less streams than its counterpart on the latter album, in spite of that one having 5 more tracks?

Actually, I think that the best way to not corrupt the data too much with the album length or one or two weaker tracks is precisely to pick a Nth track, deep enough to avoid singles, but early enough to not enter the album 'falls' either. The 6th-8th track looks perfect for this, even if there are always a few specific cases like Wish or Blue.

I think you're overcomplicating the subject, either people listen to an album or they don't. If they're skipping tracks (are people really doing that btw ?), then they're not listening to an album, they're listening to songs.

"It isn’t the same if an album is 40 minutes long or 120 minutes long. The same streaming session will give 3 times more ‘album streams’ to the former, yet it hasn’t really been more streamed."

So would you say the streams of an 8 minute song are worth twice the streams of a 4 minute song ?

"How can we put Kind of Blue ahead of Back In Black when each song of the former, ranked in streams order, has way, way less streams than its counterpart on the latter album, in spite of that one having 5 more tracks?"

Again, I'm talking about albums. The fact that AC/DC have five popular songs on the same album is irrelevant, the question is how many people are listening to the actual album.

You know what is strange is on this list, most of the songs are rock songs and yet today there is no rock music in the charts. Rock music seems to have better longevity but there are no new artists in the mainstream. Really BIZARRE!

One of the reasons is that most people using spotify grew up around the 90s, when rock music was still relevant. Also, to be successful today rock bands would have to sound different than these old bands, and innovation has its limits, at some point everything (or almost everything) has been done.

I mainly agree with you in this that I'm overcomplicating the subject. I suppose it's because looking at the raw 'actual album streams' stat ends up as more of a trivia stat that something with a real, strong meaning that I always feel the need to add rules so that the indicator means something in the end. Although I would still put an * on that entire album stream raw stat, as technically all it grants is that the user went from the first track to the 30th second of the last track, rather than him listening to it entirely. I mean, when an album has 5 tracks like Wish You Were Here, that the last is the weakest and also lasts 12mn+, chances are that out of the 32m which started the song, many millions haven't gone to its end, and as such they haven't stream the actual album 'from start to finish'.

About the worth of streams depending on the track length, it's definitely something that misses on most indicators nowadays, we can't overlook it. You used the Elvis vs Jackson comparison about videos, I'll be a bit provocative and compare the big 3 on that to give some food for thought.

Nowadays, the largest consumtion of an artist catalog is done through the 'This Is...' playlists, especially since they switched from continuing the discography of an artist to air a related music radio when listening an album is over.

Now, let's try it, we streams This Is Elvis Presley. What happens? In 2 hours and 31 minutes, we gave him 50 streams, streaming the entire playlist. Next, we invest these same 2h31 listening to This Is The Beatles. We give them the exact same number of streams, 50. They are luckier yet as they have an exception, a 'This Is' playlist cracking the 50 songs limit, with theirs expanding to 91 tracks. You can listen the 41 additional songs in barely 1h47. As the last song lasts over 5 minutes, they effectively gain 91 streams in less than 4h14.

Then, you go on and stream This Is Michael Jackson (yeah, that's a very busy day of streaming music). You spend 2h31 on it, and listen to... 34 songs. Not 50, 34. Out of these 34, one goes to Rockwell, 8 to the Jackson 5, 4 to the Jacksons. For the exact same time you gave 50 streams to both Elvis and the Beatles, you actually gave a mere 21 to Jackson. And if you stick around some more minutes, you will be served with two more Jacksons songs before hitting a 22nd stream from him.

If you listen to his playlist in full, you will still give him 50 streams as it is made of 65 recordings, 50 credited to him and 15 others. That will take you 4h49 yet, nearly twice as much as the first 50 of Elvis and the Beatles and over half an hour more than the 91 songs of the Beatles.

We're well into the final quarter of 2022.
I wonder how many of these tracks are gonna make the cut come jan23? Cut off is gonna be 800M, many of these tracks are around 780M now.

Spoiler alert. Dancing Queen is surging and is well over 800M already. No Scrubs and Somebody to Love are yet to pass 750M...

Look out for "newbie" Kate Bush Running Up That Hill. The "Stranger Things" hit has just passed 770M!!!
Unfortunately I have no idea where it was at in jan22.

jan22:
54 (57) ROLLING STONES – Paint It Black – 671M
55 (50) AEROSMITH – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – 669M
56 (64) ELTON JOHN – Rocket Man – 664M
57 (55) LED ZEPPELIN – Stairway to Heaven – 664M
58 (54) THE VERVE – Bitterswet Symphony – 663M
59 (58) U2 – With Or Without You – 659M
60 (-) AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long – 652M
61 (56) QUEEN – Somebody To Love – 650M
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– ABBA – Dancing Queen – 649M
– THE CLASH – Should I Stay or Should I Go – 648M
– (52) TLC – No Scrubs – 647M
– FLEETWOOD MAC – The Chain – 639M
– MICHAEL JACKSON – Beat It – 638M

"Look out for “newbie” Kate Bush Running Up That Hill. The “Stranger Things” hit has just passed 770M!!! Unfortunately I have no idea where it was at in jan22."

616m since june (Kworb).

Massive! Thanks

And 616M since June, that's a minimum right?
Because in some contries it's no longer charting.

I remember it was at 125m right before it blew up, slightly ahead of Wuthering Heights at the time.

I never thought I'd see the day when Kate Bush would get global recognition by the masses but I'm happy for her, she deserves it (being one of the boldest, most experimental artists from the 80s or from any time period).

Great. I also saw it was roughly on par with Wuthering, but could't recall the numbers.

I did some digging and apparently it only had 102m streams on may 25th (just before Stranger Things), 100m on april 20th and 80m in june 2021. So maybe 90m in january?

And so these "global" Spotify/Kworb numbers are far from global apparently... They only include charting weeks, is that it?

I see.
Good find! 102,246,159.
May 25th you say? Dont see the date in the link.

Kworb include charting weeks only.

Yeah the person who posted it said it's from may 25th, which tracks with other numbers (100m in april...etc.).

I just realized Kworb's total is missing the week ending august 18th... In their "daily chart totals" Running Up is listed with 649.9m streams, which makes more sense. That would leave about a dozen million from these missing weeks.

This is the updated list of top pre-2000 songs on Spotify.

Three years ago 53 songs had topped 400M plays.
Two years ago 65 songs had topped 500M plays.
One year ago 61 songs had topped 650M plays.
Now 68 songs have topped 800M plays.
How many above 1B next year???

(#) indicates ranking as of Jan 1st 2022.

As of Jan 1st 2023 (or 2/1 marked *):

1 (1) QUEEN – Bohemian Rhapsody – 2132M
2 (2) QUEEN – Don’t Stop Me Now – 1599M
3 (3) OASIS – Wonderwall – 1553M
4 (4) MARIAH CAREY – All I Want for Christmas – 1540M
5 (7) NIRVANA – Smells Like Teen Spirit – 1517M
6 (5) JOURNEY – Don’t Stop Believin’ – 1462M
7 (6) QUEEN – Another One Bites the Dust – 1448M
8 (8) AHA – Take On Me – 1445M
9 (11) GUNS N ROSES – Sweet Child O Mine – 1385M
10 (12) THE POLICE – Every Breath You Take – 1385M
11 (10) THE EAGLES – Hotel California – 1362M
12 (9) TOTO – Africa – 1343M
13 (13) EARTH, WIND & FIRE – September – 1300M
14 (15) MICHAEL JACKSON – Billie Jean – 1290M
15 (14) QUEEN/BOWIE – Under Pressure – 1255M
16 (16) AC/DC – Back In Black – 1190M
17 (30) COOLIO – Gangsta’s Paradise – 1172M
18 (18) FLEETWOOD MAC – Dreams – 1157M
19 (17) AC/DC – Highway To Hell – 1150M
20 (19) WHAM – Last Christmas – 1142M
21 (21) BON JOVI – Livin’ On A Prayer – 1124M
22 (27) GOO GOO DOLLS – Iris – 1118M
23 (22) AC/DC – Thunderstruck – 1102M
24 (32) DR. DRE – Still DRE – 1088M
25 (28) RADIOHEAD – Creep – 1081M
26 (20) BACKSTREET BOYS – I Want It That Way – 1068M
27 (23) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Under the Bridge – 1047M
28 (24) LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet Home Alabama – 1042M
29 (25) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Californication – 1040M
30 (31) METALLICA – Enter Sandman – 1032M
31 (26) QUEEN – We Will Rock You – 1028M
32 (29) EURYTHMICS – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – 1021M
33 (33) NIRVANA – Come As You Are – 1006M
34 (50) TEARS FOR FEARS – Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 983M (*)
35 (34) SURVIVOR – Eye of the Tiger – 976M
36 (36) R.E.M. – Losing My Religion – 968M
37 (-) GLORIA GAYNOR - I Will Survive – 955M (*)
38 (40) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Have You Ever Seen the Rain – 953M
39 (35) THE BEATLES – Here Comes the Sun – 942M
40 (39) METALLICA – Nothing Else Matters – 921M
41 (49) FOO FIGHTERS – Everlong – 920M (*)
42 (37) MARVIN GAYE – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – 919M
43 (46) THE CRANBERRIES – Zombie – 919M
44 (43) BRYAN ADAMS – Summer of ’69 – 914M
45 (44) DIRE STRAITS – Sultans of Swing – 907M
46 (41) WHITNEY HOUSTON – I Wanna Dance With Somebody – 906M
47 (47) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Fortunate Son – 896M
48 (42) QUEEN – I Want to Break Free – 893M
49 (53) BEE GEES – Stayin’ Alive – 890M
50 (48) GUNS N ROSES – Welcome To the Jungle – 885M
51 (38) SMASH MOUTH – All Star – 877M
52 (–) ABBA – Dancing Queen – 862M (*)
53 (–) KATE BUSH – Running Up That Hill – 859M (*)
54 (–) BRENDA LEE – Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree – 848M (*)
55 (45) BOB MARLEY – Is This Love – 847M
56 (51) GUNS N ROSES – Paradise City – 839M
57 (54) ROLLING STONES – Paint It Black – 827M (*)
58 (52) SPICE GIRLS – Wannabe – 824M (*)
59 (56) ELTON JOHN – Rocket Man – 823M (*)
60 (–) MICHAEL JACKSON – Beat It – 819M
61 (–) NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – Hypnotize – 816M
62 (60) AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long – 810M
63 (59) U2 – With Or Without You – 807M
64 (58) THE VERVE – Bitterswet Symphony – 807M (*)
65 (–) THE CLASH – Should I Stay or Should I Go – 804M (*)
66 (–) FLEETWOOD MAC – The Chain – 803M
67 (55) AEROSMITH – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – 803M (*)
68 (57) LED ZEPPELIN – Stairway to Heaven – 801M
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– (–) CYNDI LAUPER - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - 797M
– (–) BON JOVI - You Give Love a Bad Name - 793M
– (–) BLINK-182 - All the Small Things - 787M
– (–) ELO - Mr. Blue Sky - 779M (*)
– (–) GREEN DAY - Basket Case - 775M
– (56) QUEEN – Somebody To Love – 769M

The top 4 is the same as last year, but Nirvana moves to #5. 33 tracks have now passed 1B plays. The latest being "Come As You Are", making "Nevermind" the only album with 2 songs in that club.
"Bo Rhap" have now passed 2B - it's more than 0.5B in front of #2.

Coolio (#30-17) and Tears for Fears (#50-34) are the biggest jumpers. Dr. Dre (#32-24) and Foo Fighters (#49-41) have big jumps too.

There are 8 new entries. The 6 new entries by ABBA, Brenda Lee, Michael Jackson, Notorious B.I.G., The Clash and Fleetwood Mac have been on the list (or close to it) before.

But the big news are Kate Bush and Gloria Gaynor. Gloria shoots straight to #37 with close to 1B plays! She should most likely have been on the list for years, I somehow missed her so far. There are many versions of "I Will Survive" on Spotify. The biggest version at 462M has less than half of the songs total.
Kate Bush, on the other hand, has never been close to the list before. Thanks to the Netflix series "Stranger Things" Running Up That Hill shoots to #53 with 859M plays - around 760-770M in 2022 alone!!!

The Eagles and Toto are replaced by GnR and the Police in the top 10. Smash Mouth drops #38-51, Aerosmith from #55-67 and Led Zeppelin from #57-68.
Queen's "Somebody to Love" drops out of the list, however they still have 6 songs on there.

Top 20 gains since jan 1st 2022:

1 Kate Bush - Running – 760-770M
2 Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise – 354M
3 Queen – Bo Rhap – 339M
4 Nirvana – Smells Like – 339M
5 Police – Breath – 319M
6 Mariah - Xmas - 312M
7 Tears for Fears - Rule the World - 298M
8 GnR – Sweet Child – 291M
9 Queen – Don’t Stop 289M
10 Dr. Dre - Still - 289M
11 Aha – Take On Me – 286M
12 Goo Goo Dolls - Iris - 268M
13 Eagles – Hotel Cali – 267M
14 Michael Jackson – Billie Jean 258M
15 Radiohead - Creep - 255M
16 Wham - Xmas - 253M
17 Journey – Don’t Stop – 253M
18 Fleetwood Mac – Dreams – 251M
19 Queen – Another One – 250M
20 Oasis – Wonderwall – 248M

Coolio was huge last year - still, Kate Bush had more than a 2-1 lead.
Big numbers fom Nirvana, Police, Tears for Fears, GnR and Dr. Dre too. And Queen of course, although they are not as dominating as in the past few years.

Fleetwood Mac's Dreams seems to have cooled off a bit too. In 2021 it was 2nd only to Bo Rhap with 302M. In 2022 it was #18 with 251M.

The Xmas songs did very strong in 2022, Mariah (219-312M) and Wham (193-253M) both had great increases compared to 2021. Brenda Lee's Xmas (153-236M) also saw a huge increase and is just outside the top 20 (#23) for 2022.

Bon Jovi's Prayer (245M). Earth, Wind & F's September (235M) and a trio of AC/DC classics (BIB 238M, HTH 234M & Thunder 228M) are just outside the top 20 as well.

Kate Bush wasn't the only one pushed by "Stranger Things" btw. Metallica's Master of Puppets had around 222M plays in 2022 compared to 80-90M in 2020/2021.
222M in 2022 is about the same as Enter Sandman and almost 50M more than Nothing Else Matters!
Master's total as of 1/1/2023 is 636M. So it's not likely to make the list anytime soon.

I have to admit, I've just never understood the crazy popularity of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, especially in the UK. On the OCCs Rock chart, it has the most week's on chart (824) by quite a bit and pretty much never seems to leave the Top5 and its currently at #1.

Top pre-2000 Xmas songs on Spotify as of 2/1/2023:

1 (1) Mariah Carey – All I Want – 1540M (312M) (as of 1/1/23)
2 (2) Wham – Last Xmas – 1142M (253M) (1/1/23)
3 (3) Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around the Xmas – 848M (236M)
4 (-) Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas - 761M (???) (4/1/23)
5 (4) Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock – 736M (194M)
6 (5) Andy Williams – It’s the Most Wonderful – 662M (147M)
7 (7) Jose Feliciano – Feliz Navidad – 532M (142M)
8 (6) Band Aid – Do They Know – 481M (80M)
9 (8) Frank Sinatra – Let It Snow – 471M (83M)
10 (9) John Lennon – Happy Xmas – 463M (97M)
11 (14) Dean Martin – Let It Snow – 443M (139M)
12 (10) Chris Rea – Driving Home – 428M (78M)

13 (12) Paul McCartney – Wonderful Xmastime – 411M (85M)

14 (13) Nat King Cole – The Xmas Song – 411M (91M)

15 (-) Bing Crosby – I Wish You A Merry Xmas – 409M (??)
16 (11) Bing Crosby – White Xmas – 409M (79M)

2 "new" entries. But you can't really call Burl and Bing new to Xmas can you, LOL!
In both cases there are large Orphan versions of the songs, so I missed them last year.
With 761M Burl Ives' "Holly Jolly" almost made the main chart in my previous post.

It was a strong season in 2022. Apart from Sinatra and Chris Rea all other titles saw increases compared to 2021.
I already mentioned huge increases by the top 3 in my previous post. Dean Martin also went from 81-139M, Jose Feliciano 100-142M, Andy Williams 117-147M and Bobby Helms 143-194M!

Here are the top ten songs from the 50s on Spotify.

TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 50s:
As of 2/1/2023

1 (1) BRENDA LEE – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – 847.5M
2 (2) BOBBY HELMS – Jingle Bell Rock – 736.0M
3 (3) FRANK SINATRA – Let It Snow – 471.3M
4 (4) DEAN MARTIN – Let It Snow – 442.6M
5 (5) ELVIS PRESLEY – Jailhouse Rock – 361.2M
6 (6) CHUCK BERRY – Johnny B. Goode – 356.3M
7 (7) ELVIS PRESLEY – Blue Christmas – 323.2M
8 (9) PAUL ANKA – Put Your Head On My Shoulder – 296.1M
9 (-) PERRY COMO – It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Xmas – 295.5M
10 (8) JOHNNY CASH – I Walk the Line – 293.3M
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- (10) JOHNNY CASH – Folsom Prison Blues – 275.8M

Four Xmas songs still top the 50s list, and with Perry Como's seasonal hit overtaking both Johnny Cash hits, there are now 6 Xmas songs in the top 9!
Elvis still has the biggest non-Xmas track with a narrow lead over Chuckovsky.

Top 10 in 2022:

1 Brenda – 235.1M
2 Bobby – 193.9M
3 Dean – 138.7M
4 Frank – 82.5M
5 Chuck "Johnny" – 74.1M
6 Elvis “Jailhouse” – 72.9M
7 Perry – 65.2M
8 Elvis "Blue Xmas" – 56.9M
9 Chuck “Rudolph” – 52.8M
10 Paul – 48.0M

Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph" actually makes it 7 out of 10 in 2022 plays!
Rudolph has 243.5M in total (#13).

The two Xmas classics from the 40s are also still going strong!

1 (2) NAT KING COLE – The Christmas Song – 410.7M (91.1M in 2022)
2 (1) BING CROSBY – White Christmas – 408.6M (78.4M)

TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 60s:
(As of 2/1/2023)

1 (1) THE BEATLES – Here Comes the Sun – 942.4M (as of 1/1/2023)
2 (2) MARVIN GAYE – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – 919.1M (as of 1/1/2023)
3 (3) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Fortunate Son – 896.4M (as of 1/1/2023)
4 (4) ROLLING STONES – Paint It Black – 827.3M
5 (-) BURL IVES – A Holly Jolly Christmas – 760.8M (as of 4/1/2023)
6 (6) VAN MORRSION – Brown Eyed Girl – 753.9M
7 (8) BEN E. KING – Stand By Me – 752.5M
8 (7) THE ANIMALS – House of the Rising Sun – 741.4M
9 (5) THE JACKSON 5 – I Want You Back – 732.3M
10 (9) THE TEMPTATIONS – My Girl – 678.7M
11 (10) ELVIS PRESLEY – Can’t Help Falling in Love – 662.7M
12 (11) ANDY WILLIAMS – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year – 662.2M
13 (13) THE BEATLES – Come Together – 584.0M (as of 1/1/2023)
14 (12) JIMI HENDRIX – All Along the Watchtower – 579.2M
15 (17) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Bad Moon Rising – 568.8M
16 (14) ROLLING STONES – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – 568.1M
17 (16) NEIL DIAMOND – Sweet Caroline – 555.9M
18 (15) THE BEATLES – Hey Jude – 542.7M
19 (18) FRANK SINATRA – Fly Me to the Moon – 535.2M
20 (20) THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS – California Dreamin’ – 529.4M
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- (20) LED ZEPPELIN – Whole Lotta Love – 501.3M

The top 4 is the same as last year, with the top 3 likely to pass 1B during 2023.
The newly discovered Burl Ives entry (see Xmas post below) pushes Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” out of the chart.

With 109M plays in 2022 Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" misses the top 10 of 2022 (#13) and drops #5-9 overall.

Here are the top 10 of 2022:

1 Beatles – Sun – 181.5M
2 CCR – Fortunate – 177.6M
3 Marvin Gaye – Mountain – 165.3M
4 Ben E. – Stand By – 165.0M
5 Stones – Black – 155.9M
6 Andy Williams – Wonderful Time – 146.6M
7 Elvis – Falling – 140.1M
8 Animals – House – 139.4M
9 Morrison – Brown – 131.2M
10 Mamas & Papas – 123.9M

I suppose Burl Ives should be in that list, but his 2022 total is unknown.

I hate christmas songs and hate the way they spoil these lists so much. Nobody gives a shit about them for about 11 months of the year, then everybody seems to go all sentimental and just streams the shit out of them in December.

TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 70s:
(As of 1/1/2022)

1 (1) QUEEN – Bohemian Rhapsody – 2132.3M
2 (2) QUEEN – Don’t Stop Me Now – 1599.3M
3 (3) THE EAGLES – Hotel California – 1361.7M
4 (4) EARTH, WIND & FIRE – September – 1300.3M
5 (6) FLEETWOOD MAC – Dreams – 1156.7M
6 (5) AC/DC – Highway To Hell – 1149.7M
7 (7) LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Sweet Home Alabama – 1042.1M
8 (8) QUEEN – We Will Rock You – 1028.5M
9 (-) GLORIA GAYNOR – I Will Survive – 954.7M (as of 2/1/23)
10 (9) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Have You Ever Seen the Rain – 953.0M
11 (10) DIRE STRAITS – Sultans of Swing – 907.3M
12 (12) BEE GEES – Stayin’ Alive – 889.9M
13 (16) ABBA – Dancing Queen – 861.9M (as of 2/1/23)
14 (11) BOB MARLEY – Is This Love – 847.1M
15 (13) ELTON JOHN – Rocket Man – 822.7M (as of 2/1/23)
16 (17) FLEETWOOD MAC – The Chain – 803.4M
17 (14) LED ZEPPELIN – Stairway to Heaven – 800.8M
18 (18) ELO – Mr. Blue Sky – 778.9M (as of 2/1/23)
19 (15) QUEEN – Somebody To Love – 768.7M
20 (-) AEROSMITH – Dream On – 762.1M
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- (-) PINK FLOYD – Wish You Were Here – 747.8M
- (19) BOB MARLEY – Three Little Birds – 740.5M
- (20) FLEETWOOD MAC – Go Your Own Way – 735.0M

Newly discovered Gloria Gaynor hit enters at #9. As mentioned earlier there are several big versions of the hit on Spotify, so I missed it so far.
A strong 2022 for Aerosmith's Dream On is enough to enter the chart. Marley's Three Little Birds and Fleet Mac's Go Your Own Way are out.

Top 10 in 2021:

1 Queen – Bo Rhap – 339.1M
2 Queen – Stop – 289.4M
3 Eagles – California – 267.2M
4 Fleetwood – Dreams – 251.3M
5 Earth – September – 235.3M
6 AC/DC – HTH – 234.5M
7 CCR – Rain – 222.9M
8 Bee Gees – Stayin' – 217.0M
9 ABBA – Dancing Queen – 212.8M
10 AEROSMITH – Dream On – 189.5M

I don't now Gloria's 2022 tally.
KISS' "I Was Made for Loving You" was also around 190M in 2022 - total is now at 700M (#25)