50 most popular songs of the last decades according to Spotify

Strimingovye services allow you to measure the most important indicator - the number of the user plays. For example, "Yandex. Music" divided playlists, listen to songs with the years, and Spotify lets you know what the composition of the last decades are now the most popular. studyThe Most Timeless Songs of All-Time. these data and took the edition The Pudding. And we share a selection of the most popular tracks that were released from 1950 to 2005, and to understand the main conclusions from the data.

Most Popular Posts 1950-2005 years

The period chosen not by chance: it was in the 1950s appeared hits the Billboard Hot 100, with the data which correlates The Pudding Statistics on the number of plays. The aim of the study was to find out how the old songs gaining and losing popularity for a long time, so the interval is limited to 2005. Here are the tracks that listen to most often located in the descending order:

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Recall that Spotify is not officially available in Russia, so this collection helps to track the world, but not Russian tendencies.

If long hold on the top line of the Billboard Hot 100 and the record Lose Yourself Last.fm Mr. Brightside is more or less clear, the more interesting it becomes. For example, the most popular song of the 1980s was Do not Stop Believin 'group Journey. And in 1981, the track was not able to climb the Billboard Hot 100 above ninth position.

More interesting situation with popular tracks 90. Single Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana group took 42 on the Billboard charts in 1991, and now ahead of all the tracks 90 to 15 million plays (on for 2014 data).

What now?

The Pudding also paid attention to the popularity of the tracks in recent years. For example, they compared the statistics plays hits in 2013: Daft Punk - Get Lucky, Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful and the Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know. It turned out that hit the French lifted the bar high for the number of plays in the first months after the release, but within six months the results were ⅕ of old records.

Now it does not matter, because the singles Lana Del Rey Arctic Monkeys and a modest start reached approximately the same mark and stick to it no less confident.

about the gap of three worthy singles in ten years, no one can not remember.

This year, one of the leaders of the Billboard Hot 100 was the track Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee Despacito. Personally, I have no doubt that after a couple of years the number of plays of the hit will be negligible.

afterword

Strimingovymi services It enjoys more and more people, which means that soon we will get even more accurate data. It is now clear that today's popularity - not long-term success. Time - the best critic and reviewer. Therefore, if your efforts do not assess the true, think about it. Perhaps you just overtake one time.