Spotify Global Weekly Top Songs Chart

Everything old is new again.

SoundScan told us what was actually being sold.

Spotify tells us what is actually being played.

SoundScan taught us that country was much bigger than perceived.

Spotify teaches us that great songs never die, that they are discovered by younger generations. And no specific marketing event is necessary to make this happen. It appears cream rises to the top. Never in the history of the chart did we have a 48 year old album triumphing, as we do with "Rumours" below. It's Fleetwood Mac people want to listen to most, more than Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd or even the Beatles...when it comes down to specific tracks.

Old albums will no longer die. As for new music... I want you to look at the concert grosses. You'll be positively stunned how many acts are making bank around the world. It's nearly incomprehensible, no one can know every act and their audience. And my point here is the world has splintered, and we see this nowhere near as much as in music, where all songs are on an equal footing, available to all.

It wasn't playlisting that caused these ancient songs to surface, it's sheer quality and word of mouth. It's not a rigged system.

Having said that, four of the top ten weekly Spotify songs are from Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters" movie. Proving first and foremost that distribution is king and a la carte is dead. This and "Happy Gilmore 2" are the two biggest movies of the summer in terms of audience share. The fact that the industry and the media don't acknowledge their penetration is irrelevant. Furthermore, never has anything so big been embraced by so few. All the juggernauts of today may be putting up big numbers, but their overall penetration of the marketplace/human consciousness is quite low. You had to see "Jaws" and "Star Wars," do you have to see ANY movie today? Despite all the fake hoopla?

In music it's the newbie's worst nightmare. Not only are you competing with new artists, you're competing with the greatest artists of all time. It's kind of like MTV... If you're jetted into the stratosphere immediately, you'll probably fall back quickly. But if your build is slow and steady you could be forever.

And acts have much longer career arcs.

King Lizard and the Wizard Gizzard just played the Hollywood Bowl. Kudos. But their first album came out in 2012,THIRTEEN YEARS AGO! Can you imagine an act launched in 1980 getting big airplay on MTV in 1993? Never mind that King Lizard and the Wizard Gizzard is still niche, most people have never heard their music, never mind of them.

Goose, which seems to be just now gaining major traction, released its first album in 2016, nine years ago.

Bands were done in a decade back when. And if they were still on the road they did not have hits. Now it takes a decade for people to find out about you.

The below songs are tried and true hits. They may not be your cup of tea, but consensus is that they're great. And the younger generations who dominate streaming agree.

Today the disposable rules...for a short while. And then the legends come back with a vengeance.

And it's only going to get worse. If you're in the me-too business, better change direction or give up.

If you're a new artist wanting to get paid for streaming, I only have one question, do you have a song as good as "Dreams"?

P.S. Just like there are no new songs of the summer this year, with last year's tracks dominating, the hits of the future will be smaller and smaller and smaller with less and less penetration.
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Fleetwood Mac has two songs in the "Weekly Top Songs Global" chart:

#51 - "Dreams"

It has been as high as #20.
It was streamed 13,478,407 times in the past week.
Overall, it has been streamed 2,255,207,970 times.
"Dreams" is #17 in the "Top 50 - USA" daily chart

#173 - "The Chain"

It has been as high as #119.
It was streamed 8,439,790 times in the past week.
Overall, it has been streamed 1,440,773,242 times.

The Fleetwood Mac album "Rumours (Super Deluxe)" is #31 this week.

THE GOO GOO DOLLS:

#20 - "Iris"

It has been as high as #18.
It was streamed 18,928,523times in the past week.
Overall, it has been streamed 2,617,179,657 times.
"Iris" is #24 in the "Top 50 - USA" daily chart

The Goo Goo Dolls' album "Dizzy Up the Girl" is #132 this week.

COLDPLAY

#32 = "Yellow"
It has been as high as #19.
It was streamed 15,797,887 times in the past week.
Overall, it has been streamed 3,216,440,455 times.

#38 - "Sparks"

It has been as high as #33
It was streamed 14,781,201 times last week
Overall it has been streamed 1,544,132,437

#73 "Viva La Vida"
#93 "The Scientist"
#182 "A Sky Full of Stars"

The Coldplay album "Parachutes" is #44 this week.

The Coldplay album "A Rush of Blood to the Head" is #145 this week.

RADIOHEAD

#47 "Creep"
#65 -"Let Down"

The Radiohead album "OK Computer" is #67 this week.

ARCTIC MONKEYS

#48 "II Wanna Be Yours"

#81 "%05"

The Artic Monkeys album "AM" is #19 this week.

The Artic Monkeys album "Favorite Worst Nightmare" is #194 this week.

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

#54 - "Sweater Weather"

BLACK EYED PEAS

#63 - Rock That Body

KEANE

#110 Somewhere Only We Know"

ONE REPUBLIC

#115 "Counting Stars"

LINKIN PARK

"#71 "In the End"

#117 "Numb"

The Linkin Park album "Meteora" is #52 this week.

The Linkin Park album "Hybrid Theory (Bonus Edition)" is #53 this week

The Linkin Park album is #150 this week.

a-ha

#135 "Take on Me"

NIRVANA

#139 "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

#197 "Come as You Are"

The Nirvana album "Nevermind" is #86 this week.

THE KILLERS

#140 "Mr. Brightside"

JOURNEY

#141 "Don't Stop Believin'"

EVANESCENCE

#144 "Bring Me to Life"

GORILLAZ/DE LA SOUL

#148 "Feel Good Inc."

TOTO

#151 - "Africa"

GUNS N' ROSES

#152 "Sweet Child O' Mine"

The Guns N' Roses album "Appetite for Destruction is #117 this week.

IMAGINE DRAGONS

#170 "Believer"

The Imagine Dragons album "Evolve" is #115 this week.

The Imagine Dragons album "Night Visions" is #192

TEARS FOR FEARS

#192 "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

HAMILTON

#54 on the album chart this week.

EMINEM

"The Eminem Show" is #114 this week.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

"Californication (Deluxe Edition)" is #134 this week.

ADELE

"21" is #137 this week.

50 CENT

"Get Rich or Die Tryin'" is #139 this week.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN

"Toxicity" is #149 this week.

METALLICA

The Black Album is #172

NELLY FURTADO

"Loose" is #176

THREE DAYS GRACE

"Life Starts Now" is #179.

GREEN DAY

"American Idiot" is #184


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