What Makes a Popular Song on Spotify?

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2024-04-27 11:00:03

With 70 million subscribers and counting, Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service. I have had a Spotify account for many years. As a stingy college student, it's one of the few online subscriptions that I'm willing to pay a recurring fee for myself.

For this project, I wanted to look at the common features between popular songs on Spotify. Spotify's ability to suggest songs based on my previous plays is exceptional. The company uses various audio features to classify all of the complexities found in a song into universal categories, mainly for the purpose of predicting a user's tastes. Is there something that links popular music together? How likely are popular songs to be classified as happy or sad? Do artists with higher stream numbers on their songs have similar classifications on Spotify? I think that popular artists will have happier and more upbeat songs that will reflect in Spotify's audio categories.

Along with its extensive song metrics, Spotify records the total amount of plays or streams that one track accumulates. Click here for the latest version of the most streamed songs on Spotify. This table organizes the most streamed songs on Spotify of all time. All of the Spotify numbers used in this report are accurate as of May 2, 2018.