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Thomas Christiansen
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RE: Spotify all-time most streamed artists

TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 90s: (As of 1/1/2022) 1 (1) OASIS – Wonderwall – 1304.9M 2 (2) MARIAH CAREY – All I Want for Christmas – 1228.2M 3 (3) NIRVANA –...

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TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 80s: (As of 1/1/2021) 1 (1) JOURNEY – Don’t Stop Believin’ – 1208.9M 2 (2) QUEEN – Another One Bites the Dust – 1197.9M 3 (4) AH...

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TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 70s: (As of 1/1/2022) 1 (1) QUEEN – Bohemian Rhapsody – 1793.2M 2 (2) QUEEN – Don’t Stop Me Now – 1309.9M 3 (3) THE EAGLES – Hot...

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TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 60s: (As of 1-2/1/2022) 1 (2) THE BEATLES – Here Comes the Sun – 760.9M 2 (1) MARVIN GAYE – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – 753....

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Here are the top ten songs from the 50s on Spotify. TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 50s: As of 4/1/2022 1 (1) BRENDA LEE – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree –...

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This link shows you top albums by year, streaming totals. This does NOT include live versions, single edits, remixes etc. unless those are on the same...

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RE: Spotify all-time most streamed artists

Personally I think the unplugged version of Nirvana's "Come as You Are" is great. Does it differ from the original? Yup, but it's still the same song....

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I listen to entire albums too. AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" being a particular fave of mine - killler album start to finish. I love albums, still got v...

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That said, I don't include George Harrison's live version of "Here Comes the Sun" or Paul McCartney's live version of "Let it Be" or Sting's version o...

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Which versions of songs to include is often a difficult topic. Usually we combine different versions of a song, as long as it's credited to the origin...

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Nirvana's Nevermind will soon become the first pre-2000 album with two 800M+ tracks! Here are the top catalog albums based on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th ...

3 years ago
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I've updated the list of top pre-2000 songs on Spotify. Two years ago 53 songs had topped 400M plays. One year ago 65 songs had topped 500M plays. No...

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RE: Jimi Hendrix albums and songs sales

The amount of compilation albums/live albums is insane! Thanks for doing such a great job!

4 years ago
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RE: Iron Maiden albums and songs sales

Impressive! Thanks a lot MJD!

4 years ago
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RE: AC/DC albums and songs sales

I know! It's a fave of mine too. But it only sneaks in at #20.

4 years ago
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RE: Michael Jackson albums and songs sales

"Billie Jean" recently topped 1 Billion plays on Spotify!!! 993,017,697 + 3,798,470 + 2,500,913 + 1,274,583 + 47,353 = 1,000,639,016 A huge achievem...

4 years ago
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RE: AC/DC albums and songs sales

A year after the release of PWR/UP lead single "Shot in the Dark" has in fact passed 50M plays on Spotify. 1 of 18 AC/DC tracks to do so: As of 12/11...

4 years ago
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RE: AC/DC albums and songs sales

Tomorrow marks PWR/UP's 1 year anniversary. It’s tracks has over 163 mio plays on Spotify so far, ranked like this: 1 Shot in the Dark – 50,868,824 ...

4 years ago
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RE: AC/DC albums and songs sales

Today "Hells Bells" passed 200M plays on Spotify. It is the 7th AC/DC track to do so, and the 4th track from the classic "Back in Black" album. BIB i...

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RE: Michael Jackson albums and songs sales

Maybe you're wondering why Queen are missing from these lists, after all they are arguably the true streaming masters among 20th century artists. But ...

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RE: Michael Jackson albums and songs sales

"Beat It" is the 2nd track from "Thriller" to pass 500M streams on Spotify! It's the 6th pre-2000 album to achieve this. Here are the top 5 albums bas...

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RE: Celine Dion albums and songs sales

My favorite Celine Dion song was always "Think Twice". As a European it baffles me that it flopped in many other parts of the world. As a UK #1 it bar...

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TOP SPOTIFY TRACKS OF 50s: (As of 9/1/2021) 1 BRENDA LEE – Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree – 459.9M 2 BOBBY HELMS – Jingle Bell Rock – 399.7M 3 FRA...

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Indeed it would, thanks! Great stuff. I believe Frank Sinatra's Let it Snow shold be included in 1957.

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Then again, imagine if SOYCD was a 9-track song on the album iso of just 2 tracks. The 5-track album could easily have been a 12-track album. For eve...

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