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What is up with all the down voting? It’s a obvious flaw in the tracking of that list in my opinion.
Hi Kalmanta!
I can't answer instead of others and I don't vote comments myself, but I disagree with the idea of not counting averages per track being an "obvious flaw". The thing is, in a streaming world the consumption unit is time. If you listen to music every day with your headphones when going to work and returning home, you will listen to as many tracks as enabled by your travel time. If you listen to music at home, you will put in a playlist or listen to music while playing a video game or doing your homeworks, here too you won't stop because you ended an album, but because your session of what you are doing is over.
Entire albums are mainly listened to by fans, and fans play records on repeat. If an album has 10 songs and the other 20, chances are fans of the former will stream the album 2 times more than fans of the latter, simply because it has half the songs. Then there are hit singles, an album era is the same singles promotion-wise no matter how many songs there are (basically 1 song is issued every quarter while they continue to be successful).
As you can see, no matter if you are a fan playing the album on repeat, a casual listener streaming a song from a playlist, or a regular listener who uses a specific time session to listen to something, albums will get a similar amount of streams if they have 12 tracks or 15 or 18. A difference can be noticed mainly on first weeks as people out of curiosity listen to the album completely and stop when the album is over, but this represents a tiny amount of streams when all is said and done.
Basically, weighting totals by the number of tracks would distort the real success of these albums more than it would fix it. At best weighting by the average time tracks last rather than how many there are would make sense. In 40 minutes you can easily stream 15+ Beatles' songs for example, while you won't stream nearly as many songs from Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin.
hi guys where is nicki minaj - pink friday? it surpassed 1b streams (complete edition, with bed rock).
Would Trilogy by The Weeknd be possible to put here or would that be considered a compilation type album.
Hi JaMSpam!
It is indeed considered a compilation, House Of Balloons does chart on its own at #14 of 2011!
Hi Hanswurst!
This is an interesting case. Our tracker identified 2 IDs with 700m+ streams:
- Pink Friday (Complete Edition) at 908,302,254 (id 7aADdYLiK1z7GlMFr0UIZw)
- Pink Friday (Deluxe Edition) at 903,706,109 (id 4cIAp0fnyPfICPqELp7LSH)
When we check by the Spotify software yet, it does add for 1.1 billion, with the difference coming from BedRock. It's a very atypical situation: although it's present on her album and sang by her, BedRock is not credited to Nicki Minaj by Spotify, which is why our system shows 908 million. We do control that the artist ID is correct to avoid adding to our streaming tool streams from other artists who participated to the same Soundtrack for example. It also makes me think that some soundtracks may show incomplete streams there if the artist credited for a song isn't the same as the artist credited for the album. I'll see if I can technically fix this!
yall are setting the bar too high for other statics sources, I dont think anybody can top this.
Hey, here are some albums for the 60s:
682M - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
670M - The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (1966)
664M - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United (1967)
657M - Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (1967)
638M - The Beatles - Please Please Me (1963)
628M - Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968)
616M - The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
These 2 Eminem albums seem to be missing:
1.53B - Eminem - Revival (2017)
1.85B - Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By - Side B (2020)
The album "Combat Rock (Remastered)"('82) by The Clash is double counted, every song appears twice so the streams are 1.5B instead of ~770M.
I don't know what are the rules regarding compilation albums, but since Spider Man OST, Black Panther OST are there, does the 8 Mile OST qualify ?
"Pink Friday Roman Reloaded" has a full version called "Pink Friday Roman Reloaded + The Re-Up" with more streams. Beyoncé's B-day has more than 1 billion streams, different from the posted count.
for 1984 make it big by wham! should be included but careless whisper is counted separately to it so it doest show
Hi! Try switching to "page for pc" in your browser settings, might do the trick 🙂
thanks for adding it! but on George Michael’s page Careless Whisper has well over 300 million streams compared to the 17 million showing up
also songs from the chair is a 1985 album but is showing up in 1984
One thing I noticed, quite a lot of albums have incorrectly inflated totals, due to those totals being taken from deluxe, super deluxe, remastered etc versions, which quite often have tracks which were not originally on or part of the original album.
Just looking at two examples;
Elton Johns Goodbye Yellow Brick Road gains 168,603,330 extra streams from tracks such as Step Into Christmas and PInball Wizard
Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction gains 257,736,773 extra streams from tracks such as Patience and Used To Love Her
On another note, Men At Works, The Works at #7 in 1987, is a compilation album which was originally released in 1986, titled as '81-'85 and re-released/re-titled in 1992 as The Works
Thanks Martin for pointing them out! I tried to avoid these kind of releases, but irocanically for albums I know well I end up scrolling to fast and missing that a song that shouldn't be there is indeed included. I fixed all the issues you mentioned (will be OK on tonight's batch), keep them coming!
This is fixed for Songs..., about Make It Big this is the version that belongs to it, the one with 17m streams. Some artists suffer from these multi-versions songs, Madonna and Michael Jackson are good examples of artists with strong versions outside of the original album!
I suppose there is the other issue of albums like those of Led Zeppelin, which include demos etc of songs that are actually on the original album and would be counted towards its overall streaming totals, against albums like Let It Be, Paranoid and DSOM that just have their original tracks counted.
Hello, could you add "Speak Now" by Taylor Swift in the 2010? This album have almost 1billion streams
Taylor Swift's Speak Now is Absent from the 2010 list.... it should be at #11
Hey. I love this new tool. Great Job. I noticed at the 2010 list that Speak Now has not the deluxe version listed but the normal one. Can you fix it?
hey! I love your work and I can't imagine how hard it is.. but if u can add RBD debute Album REBELDE which only was avaliable at september 2020 in spotfy and have more than 133 M streams, I would love it! be safe!
Can you please add oh no, not again! EP by Alexander 23 for 2021. It has over 200 million streams. Thanks 🙂
