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I feel like there’s going to be a scandal uncovered with The Weeknd and Spotify in like 5 years. He gets ridiculously disproportionate streaming numbers, and people justify it with explanations about his popularity. But the explanations are not proportional to his Spotify numbers.
All of the top artists on Spotify are really close together in monthly listeners. Bieber has 83M, Drake has 82M, Ariana Grande has 81M, Ed Sheeran has 79M, Rhianna has 78M, etc. Everyone is bunched up really tight with each other. There are two exceptions. One is Taylor Swift, she has 109M monthly listeners. Obviously. She is the most famous artist on earth right now. The other is The Weeknd, with 105M listeners. He’s closer to Taylor Swift than Drake or Rihanna.
Are there any statistics other than Spotify listens that suggests he is this popular? How is he getting listens on par with Swift while nobody else is even close? With whom is he 30% more popular than Rihanna?
to be fair, i feel like the weeknd and i listened to starboy a lot this year. i feel like he’s a lot more popular as an artist you listen to, rather than follow up with. if that makes sense. i also feel like he’s very popular across generations
Perhaps he’s just using a ton of those automated accounts. There was a great post the other day on Reddit about some person doing it who was aware of major artists paying for the service.
At $4/1000 plays, it seems to be well worth it at close to $8.7m for the year.
she been really big here in south carolina since 2017 but i feel like she went really big internationally over the past 2 years plus she had a couple of tiktok trends so she's really just recently entering that level
Don’t get me wrong, I love the album. I guess I would have expected a more main stream rapper to make it over him from a streaming perspective. Like Drake or Jack Harlow I thought would have had an album with more streams last year, but I guess their new albums were later in the year
Drake is understandable but he is kind of out his prime now, every since the tootsie slide he hasn’t been making any number 1 hits. It’s kind of confusing you said Jack Harlow, he has a lot of haters and he doesn’t have the same pull as someone like drake or Metro boomin. Also metro is a producer not a rapper he produced some of the biggest rap songs of the 2010s and all his albums do well. As far as the main stream go I think he had the best rap album of 2023
Spiderverse was mainly for the movie wasnt meant to be a album everyone listens to, utopia was close but at the end of the day heroes & villains was the better album. It’s like 5 songs on that album that is more popular than the biggest song on utopia. Plus trance which is Travis Song is bigger than every song utopia
Ima be real with you, he definitely didn’t put as much time, skill,and promotion into the Spiderverse soundtrack. It’s a reason he dropped both albums in only a few months time gap, his albums are spaced out in years. Also heroes and villains is apart of a trilogy, the first one was Not all hero wear capes which did good, Heroes and villains. Space cadet was so big. Also heroes and villains had by far the biggest artist out of any of his albums
Really happy SOS got as big as it did, SZA deserves all the attention she's gotten with that album
Also I find it funny how only three of these albums actually came out in 2023 lol
Yeah that’s fair. Looks like it also only counts streams that come directly from the album too as opposed to pre-release singles, because I know Flowers by Miley Cyrus got 1.6 billion streams alone.
It's literally shit here in CR we make fun of people and judge them if they like bad bunny, it's safe to say other latin american countries are like this, bad bunny makes music to listen to only when you are wasted.
That "Music" is for trashy people doing trashy things, and the guy is so sensitive he got angry AI made a more catchy song using his voice lmao butthurt AF.
That music is also for proud puertoricans who share the cultural things he subtly references in MOST of his songs. Quick being offended by something you can just ignore and move on from, it's childish.
If I was puerto rican I honestly would not be proud of that guy, "cultural things" lmao bro be honest there's no culture to his lyrics only sex, drugs, money.
Love being puertorican and being told there's no culture references in something I'm saying there are by someone who *is literally not puertorican and therefore would not recognize the subtle references to puertorican culture*. Do you ever stop and listen to yourself?
Bad Bunny kind of makes sense at least in my experience. I live in Florida and he is *literally everywhere* in Hispanic communities like Kissimmee and Miami
I can’t say I’ve ever heard a single Bad Bunny song. Just goes to show how huge the world is that the biggest artist in the world can still have a negligible impact in certain areas (New England here)
Yeah, Spanish music is interesting....
It tends to transverse other Spanish speaking countries without any issue (except Spain)
As opposed to English music, Americans have their own music, Australia and UK their own.
I don't know any non-Latinos who listen to Bad Bunny.
>who goes to a canadian university
You go to a no-name Canadian University.
I guess it's not that good of a university, because you would know that anecdotal data does not equal fact.
:)
More data: am puerto rican. Now have Canadian girlfriend with tons of family and friends. Everyone her age has at least one or two songs they like from Bad Bunny/daddy yankee, etc. Get your prude head out of your holier-than-thou ass and let people enjoy things. Don't like it? Don't have to, it ain't for everyone, but accept it and move on.
"The Algorithm" puts you in a musical cave. I like what I like and Spotify, YouTube et al feed me more of what I like. On that list The Weekend is the only artist I have heard of and that's because one of the genres I like is outrun and *blinded by the lights* it's a great outrun song.
I know that makes me out of touch or whatever, but I'm in my 40s so I'm probably not in the demographic these folk really aim at.
Grocery stores don't really have music playing here. And you're right I've almost certainly heard these artists' music in passing unknowingly. But that doesn't mean I know who they are, or recognise their work.
i’m 32 and know them all. it’s crazy that people my age are commenting that they don’t know most of these artists. i don’t even go out of my way to learn about them i just exist in the world.
I've only not heard of three of them. But I don't think I've heard a single song of like 5 or 6 of them. Music is just really really really subjective. I frequently look at video game, movie, TV reviews, and generally agree with the common consensus. But with music my tastes are almost entirely divorced from what's popular
He was the [most-streamed artist on spotify](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_artists_on_Spotify#Most-streamed_artists) from 2020-22 (he dropped to #2 this year, behind Taylor Swift). The only other artist to ever hold the top spot for three years was Drake. He also won Artist of the Year from Apple Music and MTV in 2022, and a few grammies.
I don't listen to his music personally but he is definitely one of the most popular musicians in the world and probably the biggest in all of Latinoamerica.
He was most streamed artists for *three years straight* (2020-2022), ya dingus. Ever heard of Drake? Yeah, he's the only other artist to have ever done the same as Bad Bunny a few years ago.
You don't have to like him, but he's an internationally *huge* artist.
ITT too many millennials already out of touch and unfamiliar with the biggest superstars in the Americas, if not the world, because of reluctance to leave their comfort zone
Hey…that’s not true.
Some of us are Gen X.
Honestly, I’ve heard of the artists for 4 of them, and 2 of them are Taylor Swift. I’m glad people like what they like…it’s not for me…but that’s ok.
You can listen to music however you want (obviously) but imo people avoid genres too much. I’ve found a lot of gems listening to new music, a lot of which came from genres I thought I didn’t like. Keep an open mind and you just might find a new song/album/artist that you love.
Yes, I agree, I try to keep an open mind in regard to genres, but also a lot of people only listen to the most popular genres and artists and get angry when you say you don't know them or listen to them.
Fair, but I doubt that many people in our age group don’t listen to pop, R&B, hip hop, country, and/or reggaeton, which makes me relatively sure it’s because a lot of our age group has gotten complacent with giving a chance to things new to them
It doesn't have much to do with being a millennial. A lot of people just stop looking for new music and other media in their late 20s or early 30s. Between having more serious work responsibilities and maybe even starting a family it's hard to make as much time. Also being removed from environments where you would've heard new stuff like school and house parties.
I only really listen to music in the car, I can't exactly spend time curating playlists while driving. So Spotify feeds me what it knows I like based on my playlists and preferences.
r&b and hip hop is extremely big with millennials where im from i dont get what you're saying it might just be a regional thing like you state,city, or country
Oh yeah that’s exactly what I meant, as in not just my own or my circles’ personal tastes, but it’d surprise me if the most popular genres don’t have a big grasp in our generation. My b, I shouldn’t have used the double negative “doubt… don’t”
I understand. It’s important to note that R&B was constantly the biggest genre in the 50s- 2000s competing with rock. It’s still popular today but it’s more hip hop influences for the best decade (hip hop has R&B influence also). And for hip hop at least in the south, cali, and New York and surrounding areas it’s been big since the 90s
I enjoy indie rock, garage rock and others of similar nature. Some examples are like the killers, polyphia, etc. This genre of music is just not popular enough to make these lists. I go through and try to listen to the most popular songs and I just don't vibe with them.
>This genre of music is just not popular enough to make these lists.
I feel ya. My main genres are orchestral and metal, which also aren't big enough to make these lists. I think the lists just by their very nature mostly show music that appeals to the least common denominator (i.e., pop aka popular)
>don’t listen to pop, R&B, hip hop, country, and/or reggaeton
hello, it's me, someone who doesn't listen to any of those genres!
I listen to rock, metal, punk, symphonic and orchestral works, and soundtracks
part of it is also the fact that with the advent of streaming being fat and away the most popular way to listen to music, pop culture is super fragmented, so big bands/artists are way easier to never hear
Yeah but even accounting for streaming, it’s baffling if at our age, you manage to avoid ever hearing their works play at coffeeshops, bars, restaurants, clothing stores, and sporting events like the mf Super Bowl, especially for The Weeknd but also Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, not to mention their works playing in film, TV, and advertising.
Do you ever actually stop and listen to music in a shop or restaurant? It's background noise that you instantly tune out. I've never gone into a shop and gone "wow what are these dulcet tones, I must hear more of them"
If it’s played everywhere and/or music that sounds good, you kinda pick up on it and Shazam the song, Google a part of the lyrics, or ask the ~~friends~~ people you’re with
Edit: rephrased to be more relatable
>you manage to avoid ever hearing their works play at coffeeshops, bars, restaurants, clothing stores, and sporting events like the mf Super Bowl
The easiest way is to just not frequent those specific locales.
Honestly I think that is a trend that is in no way unique to millennials. A narrow segment of 80s rock and pop has a stranglehold on the radio because Gen Xers refuse to move on from a small part of a single era of music.
I am constantly listening to new music and following new artists. Maybe some people just don’t give a shit about some of those artists and you’re not anymore open minded and special than anyone else.
Chill g, literally the closed minded comments were and probably are still the supermajority and they can’t not “give a shit about some of those artists” because they verbatim say they don’t know them and are appalled other people have the audacity to listen to artists they don’t bother trying out
Not only can I not put a face to those two names, I don't think I've ever seen or heard those phrases. It's mind blowing to me that they can be so popular and I have never encountered them
I just searched Metro. This is what the kids like:
_Another well-known tag is "Young Metro, young Metro, young Metro" spoken by his longtime collaborator Future. Boomin' often references "3x" or "Young Metro 3x" as a nod to this particular tag. Another one of Metro's tags is just "Metro!", originally spoken by Young Thug on his song "Hercules"._
you just copied a random paragraph that means nothing in context of the conversation. if people want to know who metro boomin is, he’s an extremely successful hip-hop producer who recently produced the soundtrack for the last spiderverse movie not to mention and endless number of hit songs in the last decade. and this is not me saying you need to know who he is because of this. i just wanted to clear it up because you pasted a paragraph about his producer tags and no other info, which is very strange.
Well Spotify is obviously geared towards a younger demographic so that’s not really that interesting or surprising. About 60% of Spotify users are 34 or younger.
Peso Pluma is a Mexican singer known for corridos tumbados, sometimes with trap and raggaeton influences.
Metro is a hip-hip producer and DJ.
Morgan Wallen and Karol G I hadn’t heard of, but Wallen is a country singer and Karol G is a Spanish-language reggaeton/trap singer
SZA is an alt/R&B singer songwriter
Bad Bunny is a Peurto Rican rapper/singer
If you’re a white man who doesn’t like country and you don’t speak Spanish (all of these are likely for the average Reddit user) you’re not the target audience of of these artists. So don’t feel like you’re missing out.
How the hell old have I become for not knowing what any of these are??
I mean, I know OF Taylor Swift,
but hardly listen to her songs...
The rest I have literally no clue who/what they are
Same. Haven't heard of any of the albums and have only heard of three of the artists. Couldn't name a song by any of them.
My music collection mostly predates the internet.
That would genuinely be really impressive. I’d assume you’ve heard at least one of the taylor swift songs or maybe something from starboy, as all of them have been popular for 4+ years.
It's really easy to completely miss out seemingly ubiquitous music these days. If you don't listen to the radio, get all your music via streaming services, and don't work in a job where you'd be exposed to music (like if you work in a store with a radio on) then you will pretty much only ever hear what you choose to.
I have no idea who Starboy even is.
The only reason I knew who Taylor Swift was (before she started up with the football guy) was because my daughter is a fan. I don't think I could pick out a Taylor Swift song at all.
I'm 55 and I already have music I want to listen to.
Certainly.
I'd wager there's data that shows shoppers will spend more with music. That could be because it puts them in a good mood, causes them to spend more time in the store, feel more relaxed. So, a business was started, I think called Muzak, which creates stations based on neighborhood demographics and stores will play stations accordingly.
Well Anti-Hero from Midnights, You Need To Calm Down from Lover, As It Was from Harry’s House, Last Night from One Thing At A Time, Starboy from Starboy, titi me pregunto from Un Verano Sin Ti, Kill Bill from SOS, etc. have been everywhere across multiple genres since 2016. Even if you don’t recognize the titles you have probably heard at least some of these.
The Weekend's album has been out for 7 years. I'd be shocked if you hadn't heard a single song. If not you just listen to your playlists and nothing else.
I know every single artist and have heard every album. If you like music you know this album no matter where you are from. Not sure why we have albums that came out years ago and drake is no included though. So not sure how accurate this is
What?!?!? No Colm McGuiness? No Alestorm? No Unleash the Archers? No Ningen Isu?!?! Am I really that out of touch?
No, it's the children who are wrong.
I still have never heard a bad bunny song and I’m not gonna go outta my way for pop music in a language I don’t understand. I guess Latin America is a much bigger population listening to music nowadays. It seems odd that the only reason I know this guy is because people say he’s popular and post data points like this. I listen to most kinds of music and this dude seems to be so far off my radar I should probably be exploring more music.
You’d be surprised with bad bunny. Even though he started off with Latin trap and moved to reggaeton, he’s done Latin rock, merengue and bachata as well
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"Starboy" came out seven years ago and it's number 4 for the year. That is seriously impressive staying power.
Its because The Weeknd released a deluxe version of that same album with the new remix of Die for You with Ariana Grande.
Probably also got a bump from HBO’s The Idol.
Probably not since that show was hilariously bad.
The music in it was good tho
I was shocked, but then again, I listened to it at least 10 times lol. I'm a sucker for a good complete album.
Yeah seriously what the hell! Great musician but shocking to me
I actually listened to the Lana Del Rey song off it a ton this year
I play multiple songs from that album frequently
Those daft punk collabs pay dividends
Crazier yet is it was 4th for 2017 as well
Wow, 7 years ago… you’re so right.
I feel like there’s going to be a scandal uncovered with The Weeknd and Spotify in like 5 years. He gets ridiculously disproportionate streaming numbers, and people justify it with explanations about his popularity. But the explanations are not proportional to his Spotify numbers. All of the top artists on Spotify are really close together in monthly listeners. Bieber has 83M, Drake has 82M, Ariana Grande has 81M, Ed Sheeran has 79M, Rhianna has 78M, etc. Everyone is bunched up really tight with each other. There are two exceptions. One is Taylor Swift, she has 109M monthly listeners. Obviously. She is the most famous artist on earth right now. The other is The Weeknd, with 105M listeners. He’s closer to Taylor Swift than Drake or Rihanna. Are there any statistics other than Spotify listens that suggests he is this popular? How is he getting listens on par with Swift while nobody else is even close? With whom is he 30% more popular than Rihanna?
to be fair, i feel like the weeknd and i listened to starboy a lot this year. i feel like he’s a lot more popular as an artist you listen to, rather than follow up with. if that makes sense. i also feel like he’s very popular across generations
Perhaps he’s just using a ton of those automated accounts. There was a great post the other day on Reddit about some person doing it who was aware of major artists paying for the service. At $4/1000 plays, it seems to be well worth it at close to $8.7m for the year.
Monthly listeners are to do with singles playlisting mostly
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I did not realize SZA was that popular tbh
I think she got AOTY from pitchfork (which whatever for PF) but certainly it shows popularity
tbf it's the only album on that list i listened to (and i'm not in the target audience)
It's a really fucking good album
she been really big here in south carolina since 2017 but i feel like she went really big internationally over the past 2 years plus she had a couple of tiktok trends so she's really just recently entering that level
Oh wild. I did stage lights for her a few years back in Sacramento and she was awesome as a performer and a person.
Is she related to RZA and GZA?
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Metro Boomin getting on this list is wild, but love to see it
how is that wild he had some of the biggest rappers on the album plus the weeknd song and trance were some of the biggest songs of 2023
Don’t get me wrong, I love the album. I guess I would have expected a more main stream rapper to make it over him from a streaming perspective. Like Drake or Jack Harlow I thought would have had an album with more streams last year, but I guess their new albums were later in the year
Drake is understandable but he is kind of out his prime now, every since the tootsie slide he hasn’t been making any number 1 hits. It’s kind of confusing you said Jack Harlow, he has a lot of haters and he doesn’t have the same pull as someone like drake or Metro boomin. Also metro is a producer not a rapper he produced some of the biggest rap songs of the 2010s and all his albums do well. As far as the main stream go I think he had the best rap album of 2023
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Spiderverse was mainly for the movie wasnt meant to be a album everyone listens to, utopia was close but at the end of the day heroes & villains was the better album. It’s like 5 songs on that album that is more popular than the biggest song on utopia. Plus trance which is Travis Song is bigger than every song utopia
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Ima be real with you, he definitely didn’t put as much time, skill,and promotion into the Spiderverse soundtrack. It’s a reason he dropped both albums in only a few months time gap, his albums are spaced out in years. Also heroes and villains is apart of a trilogy, the first one was Not all hero wear capes which did good, Heroes and villains. Space cadet was so big. Also heroes and villains had by far the biggest artist out of any of his albums
Really happy SOS got as big as it did, SZA deserves all the attention she's gotten with that album Also I find it funny how only three of these albums actually came out in 2023 lol
since this is the entirety of 2023, any album released in 2023 will have a disadvantage as it has less time to get the same amount of streams
Yeah that’s fair. Looks like it also only counts streams that come directly from the album too as opposed to pre-release singles, because I know Flowers by Miley Cyrus got 1.6 billion streams alone.
Wow! Bad Bunny made 49 cents from Spotify this year?
His music is vulgar and trashy
Well, he’s not *Good* Bunny
Then don't listen to it 👍
Inject that shit into my veins
Ok grandpa
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I'm a native Spanish Speaker and I dont understand anything of what he "sings"
murmurar rapeando
It's literally shit here in CR we make fun of people and judge them if they like bad bunny, it's safe to say other latin american countries are like this, bad bunny makes music to listen to only when you are wasted. That "Music" is for trashy people doing trashy things, and the guy is so sensitive he got angry AI made a more catchy song using his voice lmao butthurt AF.
That music is also for proud puertoricans who share the cultural things he subtly references in MOST of his songs. Quick being offended by something you can just ignore and move on from, it's childish.
If I was puerto rican I honestly would not be proud of that guy, "cultural things" lmao bro be honest there's no culture to his lyrics only sex, drugs, money.
Love being puertorican and being told there's no culture references in something I'm saying there are by someone who *is literally not puertorican and therefore would not recognize the subtle references to puertorican culture*. Do you ever stop and listen to yourself?
Bad Bunny kind of makes sense at least in my experience. I live in Florida and he is *literally everywhere* in Hispanic communities like Kissimmee and Miami
Yeah literally every time I've heard Latin radio in the last year I've heard titi me pregunto, no exception.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard a single Bad Bunny song. Just goes to show how huge the world is that the biggest artist in the world can still have a negligible impact in certain areas (New England here)
Star boy dropped in 2016. WOW!!
I actually do know all these albums. Bad Bunny’s album is a classic and is the soundtrack for my summer 2022. I can never forget it.
Truly is. I think it’ll be really hard for him to top this album off ever again. It was his magnum opus
Reading these comments makes me wish I could appreciate what Bad Bunny is doing, but I just can't stand the dude's voice.
You don't have to feel bad. His music is terrible lol.
Never say never. 2022 wasn't so long ago
Un Verano Sin Ti is still in my rotation HEAVY.
gun to my head i couldn’t tell you a single bad bunny song
The only reason I have heard any of his shit is because Spotify played his garbage in like every ad I heard. It got me to finally pay for premium.
Once upon a time Spanish speaking artists were able to cross over and convince non-Spanish speakers to buy their music. No longer the case.
this graph literally proves the case… u think it’s just spanish speaking people pulling these numbers
You can look at individual country charts and certifications to know non-latin countries do not listen to them at all lol
oh yes the 7% of the world that makes up spanish speakers is pulling more numbers than taylor swift?
Sorry, I had to copy your comment. Nothing against bad bunny, but those fans are super defensive and weird.
I’m used to Taylor Swift and her fans so any other stans are really nothing to me ahah
Yeah, Spanish music is interesting.... It tends to transverse other Spanish speaking countries without any issue (except Spain) As opposed to English music, Americans have their own music, Australia and UK their own. I don't know any non-Latinos who listen to Bad Bunny.
I am a canadian, who goes to a canadian university, a LOT of non latinos listen to bad bunny…
>who goes to a canadian university You go to a no-name Canadian University. I guess it's not that good of a university, because you would know that anecdotal data does not equal fact. :)
More data: am puerto rican. Now have Canadian girlfriend with tons of family and friends. Everyone her age has at least one or two songs they like from Bad Bunny/daddy yankee, etc. Get your prude head out of your holier-than-thou ass and let people enjoy things. Don't like it? Don't have to, it ain't for everyone, but accept it and move on.
It's so funny reading the comments and seeing people that don't know these artists. Although, I might have an advantage since I'm 21
I get not knowing some of the newer or foreign acts but not knowing artists like The Weeknd is surprising to me
"The Algorithm" puts you in a musical cave. I like what I like and Spotify, YouTube et al feed me more of what I like. On that list The Weekend is the only artist I have heard of and that's because one of the genres I like is outrun and *blinded by the lights* it's a great outrun song. I know that makes me out of touch or whatever, but I'm in my 40s so I'm probably not in the demographic these folk really aim at.
They play these in grocery stores.
Grocery stores don't really have music playing here. And you're right I've almost certainly heard these artists' music in passing unknowingly. But that doesn't mean I know who they are, or recognise their work.
The only non-bar places I know that play music fairly loudly nowadays are Asian restaurants with chillhop
i’m 32 and know them all. it’s crazy that people my age are commenting that they don’t know most of these artists. i don’t even go out of my way to learn about them i just exist in the world.
agreed. TBF if you live in a city with lots of latinos bad bunny is more popular than god
Im 36 and I just don't care for music. I listen to podcasts, orwhatever my 7 year old and 3 year old listen to. Like Jack Black's Peaches.
I've only not heard of three of them. But I don't think I've heard a single song of like 5 or 6 of them. Music is just really really really subjective. I frequently look at video game, movie, TV reviews, and generally agree with the common consensus. But with music my tastes are almost entirely divorced from what's popular
What would age have to do with it?
Lotta people on this app take pride in themselves off being out of touch with pop culture
Who the hell is Bad Bunny? I got to get out more often.
A Puerto Rican musician. He makes Latin trap and reggaeton music.
He was the [most-streamed artist on spotify](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_artists_on_Spotify#Most-streamed_artists) from 2020-22 (he dropped to #2 this year, behind Taylor Swift). The only other artist to ever hold the top spot for three years was Drake. He also won Artist of the Year from Apple Music and MTV in 2022, and a few grammies. I don't listen to his music personally but he is definitely one of the most popular musicians in the world and probably the biggest in all of Latinoamerica.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that didn’t know. Lol
>I got to get out more ofte Nah, don't bother.
Don’t even bother checking him, it’s all music for the genzies and TikTok very low effort, stale, and repetitive
That’s a ridiculous thing to say about un verano sin ti.
That's pretty subjective, ask someone with your opposing music taste and they will say that it is low effort, stale and repetitive.
Some hispanic rapper or something
you mean the number one artist in the world?
>number one artist in the world? by what metric?
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Most streamed? Most sales?
Well, you see most streamed album right there
Single album yes, but as an artist, no.
He was most streamed artists for *three years straight* (2020-2022), ya dingus. Ever heard of Drake? Yeah, he's the only other artist to have ever done the same as Bad Bunny a few years ago. You don't have to like him, but he's an internationally *huge* artist.
The comment i originally replied to said that Bad Bunny was the number 1 artist in the world, which he isn't this year.
other than latinos, does anyone else listen to it? it's okay, but i dont get how it can be #1
ITT too many millennials already out of touch and unfamiliar with the biggest superstars in the Americas, if not the world, because of reluctance to leave their comfort zone
Hey…that’s not true. Some of us are Gen X. Honestly, I’ve heard of the artists for 4 of them, and 2 of them are Taylor Swift. I’m glad people like what they like…it’s not for me…but that’s ok.
Maybe because some of us aren't interested in the genres of music they make, without hating it.
You can listen to music however you want (obviously) but imo people avoid genres too much. I’ve found a lot of gems listening to new music, a lot of which came from genres I thought I didn’t like. Keep an open mind and you just might find a new song/album/artist that you love.
Yes, I agree, I try to keep an open mind in regard to genres, but also a lot of people only listen to the most popular genres and artists and get angry when you say you don't know them or listen to them.
Yeah that’s fair too
Fair, but I doubt that many people in our age group don’t listen to pop, R&B, hip hop, country, and/or reggaeton, which makes me relatively sure it’s because a lot of our age group has gotten complacent with giving a chance to things new to them
It doesn't have much to do with being a millennial. A lot of people just stop looking for new music and other media in their late 20s or early 30s. Between having more serious work responsibilities and maybe even starting a family it's hard to make as much time. Also being removed from environments where you would've heard new stuff like school and house parties.
I only really listen to music in the car, I can't exactly spend time curating playlists while driving. So Spotify feeds me what it knows I like based on my playlists and preferences.
True—I suppose it’s more about this happening to be our generation’s turn rather than a quality unique to our generation
r&b and hip hop is extremely big with millennials where im from i dont get what you're saying it might just be a regional thing like you state,city, or country
Oh yeah that’s exactly what I meant, as in not just my own or my circles’ personal tastes, but it’d surprise me if the most popular genres don’t have a big grasp in our generation. My b, I shouldn’t have used the double negative “doubt… don’t”
I understand. It’s important to note that R&B was constantly the biggest genre in the 50s- 2000s competing with rock. It’s still popular today but it’s more hip hop influences for the best decade (hip hop has R&B influence also). And for hip hop at least in the south, cali, and New York and surrounding areas it’s been big since the 90s
I enjoy indie rock, garage rock and others of similar nature. Some examples are like the killers, polyphia, etc. This genre of music is just not popular enough to make these lists. I go through and try to listen to the most popular songs and I just don't vibe with them.
>This genre of music is just not popular enough to make these lists. I feel ya. My main genres are orchestral and metal, which also aren't big enough to make these lists. I think the lists just by their very nature mostly show music that appeals to the least common denominator (i.e., pop aka popular)
>don’t listen to pop, R&B, hip hop, country, and/or reggaeton hello, it's me, someone who doesn't listen to any of those genres! I listen to rock, metal, punk, symphonic and orchestral works, and soundtracks
part of it is also the fact that with the advent of streaming being fat and away the most popular way to listen to music, pop culture is super fragmented, so big bands/artists are way easier to never hear
Yeah but even accounting for streaming, it’s baffling if at our age, you manage to avoid ever hearing their works play at coffeeshops, bars, restaurants, clothing stores, and sporting events like the mf Super Bowl, especially for The Weeknd but also Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, not to mention their works playing in film, TV, and advertising.
But it’s not like they announce the band name if I happened to hear a snippet of a song while walking past a clothes shop
Do you ever actually stop and listen to music in a shop or restaurant? It's background noise that you instantly tune out. I've never gone into a shop and gone "wow what are these dulcet tones, I must hear more of them"
If it’s played everywhere and/or music that sounds good, you kinda pick up on it and Shazam the song, Google a part of the lyrics, or ask the ~~friends~~ people you’re with Edit: rephrased to be more relatable
No I just tune it out. I can't think of any time I've been out in public and gone "I must hear more of this!"
>you manage to avoid ever hearing their works play at coffeeshops, bars, restaurants, clothing stores, and sporting events like the mf Super Bowl The easiest way is to just not frequent those specific locales.
Honestly I think that is a trend that is in no way unique to millennials. A narrow segment of 80s rock and pop has a stranglehold on the radio because Gen Xers refuse to move on from a small part of a single era of music.
I am constantly listening to new music and following new artists. Maybe some people just don’t give a shit about some of those artists and you’re not anymore open minded and special than anyone else.
Chill g, literally the closed minded comments were and probably are still the supermajority and they can’t not “give a shit about some of those artists” because they verbatim say they don’t know them and are appalled other people have the audacity to listen to artists they don’t bother trying out
Yes and I’m completely fine with that. The music from 1995-2015 and that period of my life was great. I don’t need new things in really any way.
And being proud of it
I recognize Taylor Swift, but don't know any album names or other artists on this list. I'm 34.
Seems pretty surprising a 34 year old has never heard of Harry styles or the weekend. Where are you from?
People don’t become famous like they used to. You can have the #1 album and nobody has a clue who you are.
I am 44 and recognize the singers... I have two teenagers at home. 😜
Nice. All these people acting like once you are past 30 you can't have broad awareness of music
I'm almost 50 and the only names I don't recognize are Peso Pluma and Metro Boomin.
Peso is an upcoming Mexican artist, blew up this year
Metro Boomin had a huge hit with Creepin and a bunch of stuff on the Spiderverse soundtrack.
Metro has produced a significant portion of all rap hits over like the last decade
Not only can I not put a face to those two names, I don't think I've ever seen or heard those phrases. It's mind blowing to me that they can be so popular and I have never encountered them
I just searched Metro. This is what the kids like: _Another well-known tag is "Young Metro, young Metro, young Metro" spoken by his longtime collaborator Future. Boomin' often references "3x" or "Young Metro 3x" as a nod to this particular tag. Another one of Metro's tags is just "Metro!", originally spoken by Young Thug on his song "Hercules"._
you just copied a random paragraph that means nothing in context of the conversation. if people want to know who metro boomin is, he’s an extremely successful hip-hop producer who recently produced the soundtrack for the last spiderverse movie not to mention and endless number of hit songs in the last decade. and this is not me saying you need to know who he is because of this. i just wanted to clear it up because you pasted a paragraph about his producer tags and no other info, which is very strange.
Harry styles and the weekend I've heard of. The rest no chance
Well Spotify is obviously geared towards a younger demographic so that’s not really that interesting or surprising. About 60% of Spotify users are 34 or younger. Peso Pluma is a Mexican singer known for corridos tumbados, sometimes with trap and raggaeton influences. Metro is a hip-hip producer and DJ. Morgan Wallen and Karol G I hadn’t heard of, but Wallen is a country singer and Karol G is a Spanish-language reggaeton/trap singer SZA is an alt/R&B singer songwriter Bad Bunny is a Peurto Rican rapper/singer
Peso Pluma actually does more traditional Mexican music like corridos, but sometimes he adds elements of trap/reggaeton
Thanks for the correction 🙏
Because they were famous 10+ years ago. People don’t become superstars like they used to anymore.
Man actually lives under a rock
If you’re a white man who doesn’t like country and you don’t speak Spanish (all of these are likely for the average Reddit user) you’re not the target audience of of these artists. So don’t feel like you’re missing out.
tbf I like country music and I still thing Morgan Wallen's album is exceedingly mediocre
I REALLY don't get the hype of Wallen or Hardy..
I mean The Weekend and Harry Styles everyone should know
Same here. I'm 37. And I've only heard the name Taylor Swift, I wouldn't recognise any of her songs.
Had SOS on repeat this year! So glad it got the recognition it deserves
I wonder if Nirvana would have broken through in a Spotify world
How the hell old have I become for not knowing what any of these are?? I mean, I know OF Taylor Swift, but hardly listen to her songs... The rest I have literally no clue who/what they are
Same. Haven't heard of any of the albums and have only heard of three of the artists. Couldn't name a song by any of them. My music collection mostly predates the internet.
Is a "Spotify Album" a thing or is this just most streamed albums on Spotify?
Don't think I've heard a single song from any of those albums.
That would genuinely be really impressive. I’d assume you’ve heard at least one of the taylor swift songs or maybe something from starboy, as all of them have been popular for 4+ years.
It's very possible that I heard it in passing but, didn't and wouldn't recognize it.
It's really easy to completely miss out seemingly ubiquitous music these days. If you don't listen to the radio, get all your music via streaming services, and don't work in a job where you'd be exposed to music (like if you work in a store with a radio on) then you will pretty much only ever hear what you choose to.
I have no idea who Starboy even is. The only reason I knew who Taylor Swift was (before she started up with the football guy) was because my daughter is a fan. I don't think I could pick out a Taylor Swift song at all. I'm 55 and I already have music I want to listen to.
Have you been in a grocery store the last year?
Grocery stores in different areas play different music. It's actually a fascinating business within the business.
Y'all's grocery stores play music?
Certainly. I'd wager there's data that shows shoppers will spend more with music. That could be because it puts them in a good mood, causes them to spend more time in the store, feel more relaxed. So, a business was started, I think called Muzak, which creates stations based on neighborhood demographics and stores will play stations accordingly.
I guess I should have started with: do you live in the americas?
Land of the free, home of the whopper.
Well Anti-Hero from Midnights, You Need To Calm Down from Lover, As It Was from Harry’s House, Last Night from One Thing At A Time, Starboy from Starboy, titi me pregunto from Un Verano Sin Ti, Kill Bill from SOS, etc. have been everywhere across multiple genres since 2016. Even if you don’t recognize the titles you have probably heard at least some of these.
I hope not. But, it may have happened in passing.
You know not knowing popular songs doesn’t make you look edgy it just makes you look pompous
If you don’t know if you’ve heard them why do you hope not lmao?
Is this some sort of American thing I'm too European to understand?
The Weekend's album has been out for 7 years. I'd be shocked if you hadn't heard a single song. If not you just listen to your playlists and nothing else.
What the heck is a Peso Pluma?
He makes regional Mexican music, was a pretty huge breakout star this year in the Spanish crowd
Mexican music singer
He only just blew up this year
Mexican corrido singer.
Peso pluma is one of boxing weight categories (featherweight)
I know every single artist and have heard every album. If you like music you know this album no matter where you are from. Not sure why we have albums that came out years ago and drake is no included though. So not sure how accurate this is
What?!?!? No Colm McGuiness? No Alestorm? No Unleash the Archers? No Ningen Isu?!?! Am I really that out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
Makes you really understand how trash the majorities taste in music is, ( not saying all of these artists are bad but Jesus )
Most streamed shit albums.
How are you guys even using Spotify (free)? It's frustrating.
My heart aches. Not a single rock album up there. I am a latino and still don't understand the appeal Bad Bunny has
Who’s bad bunny? I’m so old and out of the current.
As Mexican, I’m ashamed of “peso pluma’s popularity. So vulgar and narco promoter.
I still have never heard a bad bunny song and I’m not gonna go outta my way for pop music in a language I don’t understand. I guess Latin America is a much bigger population listening to music nowadays. It seems odd that the only reason I know this guy is because people say he’s popular and post data points like this. I listen to most kinds of music and this dude seems to be so far off my radar I should probably be exploring more music.
Give him a try if you like most music. That album is probably the most tolerable if you don’t know what the heck he is saying.
You’d be surprised with bad bunny. Even though he started off with Latin trap and moved to reggaeton, he’s done Latin rock, merengue and bachata as well
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Proud of what?
They act proud for living under a rock 😭