How Popular Are Your Favorite Artists on Spotify? (Stolen idea from Reddit)

How popular are your favorite artists on Spotify?

If you use an app like lastfm, statsfm, or any other program to track your plays, list your top 50 most-scrobbled artists, then look up on this chart https://chartmasters.org/most-streamed-artists-ever-on-spotify/ and see whether or not they are in the top 1,000 most-streamed ever on Spotify. Put the place they hold in parentheses or put (-) if they are not in the top 1,000 to see how mainstream your tastes are.

I joined lastfm in May 2018 so it’s not accurate of my whole Spotify career that I’ve been on since 2010 but it’s accurate for recent tastes!

My top 50:
1. Taylor Swift (1st)
2. Powfu (736th) [Surprised he was top 1,000]
3. Chelsea Cutler (872nd)
4. Olivia Rodrigo (54th)
5. Blink-182 (199th)
6. Spanish Love Songs (-)
7. The 1975 (217th)
8. Angels and Airwaves (-) [Surprised Blink-182 is so high but AvA isn’t top 1,000. Tom DeLonge is under-appreciated]
9. Gracie Abrams (843rd)
10. Linkin Park (48th)
11. Halsey (63rd)
12. Real Friends (-)
13. Girl in Red (504th)
14. Flyleaf (-)
15. Ed Sheeran (5th)
16. Wyld (-)
17. Wallows (797th)
18. Local Natives (-)
19. KennyHoopla (-)
20. Beartooth (-)
21. Janet Suhh (-)
22. Pierce the Veil (766th)
23. Brand New (-)
24. Ryan Caraveo (-)
25. Amy Shark (-)
26. Moose Blood (-)
27. A Day to Remember (660th)
28. Paramore (215th)
29. The Used (-)
30. Badflower (-)
31. Shawn Mendes (30th)
32. Petey (-)
33. State Champs (-)
34. Kenny Chesney (536th)
35. Sigrid (-)
36. Jeremy Zucker (-)
37. Hot Mulligan (-)
38. Harry Styles (36th)
39. AJR (430th)
40. Pale Waves (-)
41. Daughter (-)
42. Boston Manor (-)
43. Mom Jeans (-)
44. Arden Jones (-)
45. Chevelle (-)
46. Kendrick Lamar (22nd)
47. Nothing,Nowhere (-)
48. Yungblud (-)
49. Thomas Rhett (355th)
50. Box Car Racer (-)

21/50. So considering my #1 matches the global top 1 I’ll say 50% mainstream, 50% not mainstream. Although some of these shocked me like Powfu, Chelsea Cutler, and Wallows being top 1,000 and Angels and Airwaves not being top 1,000.

 

Only LP and BMTH I guess. Could be Nothing But Thieved too

 

Pretty cool idea. My overalls since 2015 generally have at least some that are easy to chart:

Enter Shikari (-)
Linkin Park (48)
blink-182 (199)
John Williams (418)
Devin Townsend (-)
Alan Silvestri (-)
Haken (-)
Dream Theater (-)
Devin Townsend Project (-)
Henry Jackman (-)
Randy Newman (-)
A Day to Remember (654)
Michael Giacchino (-)
Panic! at the Disco (114)
Bring Me the Horizon (238)
Angels & Airwaves (-)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (68)
Goo Goo Dolls (658)
Michael Jackson (77)
Fall Out Boy (111)
Owl City (772)
Howard Shore (-)
Coldplay (14)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (-)
The Cure (410)
Breaking Benjamin (561)
The Story So Far (-)
Ludwig Göransson (-)
Christophe Beck (-)
Rise Against (512)
Strapping Young Lad (-)
Daft Punk (223)
The Beatles (50)
Brian Tyler (-)
The Devin Townsend Band (-)
System of a Down (185)
Craig Armstrong (-)
Tyler Bates (-)
Akira Senju (-)
Danny Elfman (-)
Foo Fighters (195)
Alan Menken (-)
Patrick Doyle (-)
Rush (-)
Attack Attack! (-)
David Bowie (316)
Mark Mothersbaugh (-)
Porcupine Tree (-)
The HU (-)
Flatt & Scruggs (-)

20/50 in the top 1,000 data. More than I expected, but not surprising given the presence of artists like Panic here that I have listened to in years.

 

1. Linkin Park (48th)
2. Fort Minor (-)
3. Mike Shinoda (-)
4. Robbie Williams (555th)
5. Eminem (7th)
6. 30 Seconds to Mars (-) surprising not to be in the top 1000 tbh
7. Giggs (-)
8. Rise Against (505th)
9. Good Charlotte (-)
10. Drake (2nd)
11. Hurts (-)
12. Hollywood Undead (-) My data goes all the way back to when I was young, i am now fully aware that this band is ASS
13. Dead By Sunrise (-)
14. Cyclefly (-)
15. Coldplay (14th)
16. Papa Roach (493rd) Read above regarding Hollywood Undead
17. 3 Doors Down (650th)
18. Killswitch Engage (-)
19. Downstait (-) Wrestling themes FTW
20. Backstreet Boys (328th)
21. My Chemical Romance (241st)
22. Flo Rida (175th)
23. Infected Mushroom (-)
24. Avenged Sevenfold (334th)
25. Justin Bieber (8th)
26. Stitches (-) If you know, you know
27. Trapt (-)
28. Thousand Foot Krutch (-)
29. P.O.D. (-)
30. Flyleaf (-)
31. Blink-182 (200th)
32. Nickelback (251st)
33. X-Ecutioners (-)
34. Sum 41 (597th)
35. Holly Brook/Skylar Grey (-)
36. Hadouken! (-)
37. My Darkest Days (-)
38. Skillet (448th)
39. Halestorm (-)
40. Bullet For My Valentine (917th)
41. Bring Me The Horizon (237th)
42. The Lonely Island (-)
43. Young Money (-)
44. Alkaline Trio (-)
45. Killradio (-)
46. In Flames (-)
47. The Beatles (50th)
48. Red Hot Chili Peppers (68th)
49. The Offspring (303rd)
50. Styles of Beyond (-)

I got 20/50. Really interesting (to me at least) that the three results have been 20, 21 and 20 out of 50

 

We're all just 2 und3rgr0und for the mainstream corporate music complex

 

Yeah that’s crazy that it’s been 20, 20, and 21. Wild! I listen to a lot of scene music and I knew unless it was the top of the top scene music it wouldn’t be on there.

Also the first 3 Hollywood Undead are still fire to this day IMO

 

I don't quite know what my top 50 are, but I know most bands I like aren't top 1000. The ones that are:

Linkin Park (37th)
Metallica (210th)
Journey (263rd)
System of a Down (265th)

 

How about just a top 10 haha.

I know for most of us in this thread, we're tracking everything we listen to, so that's how we're arriving at our top 50, based purely on the raw play count.

 

I'm going through all my favorite band's discographys at the moment, once I'm done I can give a solid top 10. Either way, I can give a top 4 with their monthly listeners.
1. Tourniquet (13, 382)
2. Deliverance (8,300)
3. Metallica (26,014,744)
4. Megadeth (4,614,373)

 

Source: https://www.last.fm/user/minusxero/library/artists?date_preset=ALL

My last.fm account has been active since 2005 so there's a lot on here that I don't necessarily listen to anymore, and a lot that should probably be on here that haven't reached that point yet.

Nine Inch Nails (-)
Vienna Teng (-)
Linkin Park (45)
Utada Hikaru (-)
Lights (-)
Carly Rae Jepsen (495)
Foo Fighters (200)
Mike Shinoda (-)
She (-)
Ether After (-)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (69)
Kina Grannis (-)
Paramore (217)
Ken Oak Band (-)
Jay Chou (629)
The Cab (-)
The Weeknd (4)
John Mayer (142)
Childish Gambino (173)
Jason Mraz (337)
E.S. Posthumus (-)
Holly Brook (-)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (-)
Jeff Williams (-)
John Frusciante (-)
Radiohead (159)
Taylor Swift (1)
Copeland (-)
The New Frontiers (-)
Nobuo Uematsu (-)
Kendrick Lamar (22)
edIT (-)
The Cardigans (-)
David Choi (-)
Fort Minor (-)
Nightlife (-)
Mree (-)
Panic! At The Disco (117)
The Seatbelts (-)
Gorillaz (165)
Lupe Fiasco (-)
Saul Williams (-)
Janelle Monae (-)
Backstreet Boys (331)
The Shanghai Restoration Project (-)
Bruno Mars (20)
Bad Omens (-)
Jonathan Larson (-)
Bo Burnham (988)
Muse (256)

19/50, and of my top 10 only 3 are in the top 1000. Of the 19 on the list, only 2 are in the top 10.

What I'm taking away from this is Blake is the most basic bitch here.

 

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