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However, although these reasons help to square the circle, a certain mystery remains. A quick look at Spotify today and Billie Eilish, who had the most commercially successful album of 2019 but is not featured in any of the final Spotify releases in 2020, has as many monthly streams as Bad Bunny – just over 50 million.
In addition, Dua Lipa has nine million more, an amount equal to that of J Balvin, who ranked third in the world top five. Juice WRLD, in fourth place, has only 36 million streams a month, the same as Eminem, but that’s the same amount as Taylor Swift, who doesn’t make the list at all. While The Weeknd tops them all with 64 million monthly streams, Ariana Grande surpasses it, with over 69 million monthly streams.
I am aware that these streams fluctuate wildly, depending on what the artist released and when, but most of these artists are on the same footing – a 2020 album, a scattering of singles, and roughly the same number of fans on the tracks. social networks. . And the circle looks less square again.
Quite infuriatingly, I know, this article seems to raise as many questions as it answers. It’s simply impossible to build a case on guesswork, and Spotify’s listener demographics are limited. That’s why I want to hear from you. Who have you been listening to this 2020? Do these end-of-the-year lists represent your tastes? And maybe, we can get a little closer to asking ourselves the perennial question: is the music industry a boys club? And if so, why?
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