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 3rd January 2023, 03:45 PM
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Amazing to think some of these classic album tracks did the same amount of streams all year as Christmas Wrapping did in 2 days.
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3rd January 2023, 07:54 PM
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QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jan 2 2023, 08:17 PM)  Now it's time to catch up  and give Spiceboy a nudge while you're at it xxSo it’s your fault he poked me!!! |
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3rd January 2023, 07:56 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 3 2023, 01:40 PM) Interesting of their more popular songs it is the more downtempo that aren't as popular. I think that makes sense tbh. Even though they had gorgeous ballads and actually released more ballads than uptempo, their chaotic image and vibe lends itself to remembering them as a upbeat pop group. |
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3rd January 2023, 08:04 PM
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What's this? What is Step to Me 25 on, Jay's faves? Last Time (First Time) Lover is a BOP!
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3rd January 2023, 09:38 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 2 2023, 08:50 PM) Feed your love I rate but it needs a radio edit to knock it down to 4 minutes. 5+ minute songs just aren't streaming friendly. I'm honestly trying to understand the comment: the album version of Viva Forever for example, is over 5 minutes, and is beautiful and streams just fine. Can you clarify why "5+ minute songs just aren't streaming friendly"?   |
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3rd January 2023, 09:48 PM
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QUOTE(Equinox8 @ Jan 3 2023, 09:38 PM) I'm honestly trying to understand the comment: the album version of Viva Forever for example, is over 5 minutes, and is beautiful and streams just fine. Can you clarify why "5+ minute songs just aren't streaming friendly"? Because people usually stream for a set amount of time. I'm having a shower so will put X playlist, artist or song on. If you spend 15 minutes in the shower and songs are 5 minutes you listen to 3. If you have songs that are 3 minutes you listen ro 5. Because of streaming most chart hits these days come in under 3 minutes. Music is basically fast food now in consumption. |
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3rd January 2023, 10:29 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 3 2023, 09:48 PM) Because of streaming most chart hits these days come in under 3 minutes. Music is basically fast food now in consumption. I know you are right but honestly this is so depressing... The fact that artists now condition themselves to under 3mins so they can be streamed better is so vile... There are a bunch of new releases who have started to go against this, such as Beyonce's last album and SZA's as well (one of the tracks goes over 6mins!). I hope the algorhythm changes as this is killing the artistic freedom of lesser known artists in favour of a stupid platforms' rules! |
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3rd January 2023, 10:49 PM
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17th: Move Over
Now we've reached the songs that managed over a million streams in 2022! Move Over just about managed that milestone, and was helped along by the recently released Live in Istanbul version. It's the only album track that was included on their 2007 release 'Greatest Hits' (likely due to its recognisability of being a Pepsi advert jingle) but I'm not sure whether being on the Greatest Hits does a great deal in lifting up its streaming numbers because that compilation isn't very prominent on Spotify... 2022 Streams: 1,004,715 Total Streams: 6,779,100 ---------- 16th: If U Can't Dance The 10th and final track on 'Spice' was chosen to open their concerts in Istanbul in 1997 and their world tour in 1998, which was a pretty inspired choice rather than them going with a single. Despite being a popular live track, they've unfortunately never released live audio of it. However a demo version was made available via 'Spice 25'. 2022 Streams: 1,021,833 Total Streams: 6,740,777 ---------- 15th: Love Thing The most streamed album track from 'Spice' is 'Love Thing'! Virgin Records heard single potential in this track, but of course it ultimately it didn't get chosen. It's certainly a fan favourite! There's two other versions that can be streamed - Live from Istanbul and 12" Unlimited Groove Mix. 2022 Streams: 1,268,544 Total Streams: 7,349,493 ---------- 14th: Saturday Night Divas In terms of live performances, the Spice Girls have sadly paid dust to this song other than at the Istanbul shows in 1997. It was used as backing music for one of the most memorable Spiceworld The Movie scenes! Otherwise... nothing. Why do they overlook it? It seems particularly strange that they snubbed it in 2019 because it had already established itself as one of their most streamed songs at that point, and that has continued to be the case in the years that have gone by since those shows. So they'd better give it the justice it deserves if they ever tour again! It has out streamed every album track from 'Spice' which seems quite surprising. Stop underestimating this incredible song, ladies, we love it! 2022 Streams: 1,395,954 Total Streams: 8,609,223 ---------- 13th: Never Give Up on the Good Times This is their only album track to have exceeded 10 million streams on Spotify, with over 2 million of those occurring in 2022. Clearly it was a missed single opportunity, but some belated justice was given to the song last year - it now has its own official music video (which uses clips of the girls from over the years). What a bop! However it wasn't their most streamed non-single in 2022... 2022 Streams: 2,029,413 Total Streams: 10,879,160 |
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3rd January 2023, 11:09 PM
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NGUOTGT is on a decent sized playlist isn't it? Would love to know its UK sales now.
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3rd January 2023, 11:26 PM
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QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jan 3 2023, 02:25 PM) I support you Mr. X  Gerita's house, tomorrow night! We riot 
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3rd January 2023, 11:29 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 3 2023, 11:09 PM) NGUOTGT is on a decent sized playlist isn't it? Would love to know its UK sales now. Oh which one? Also, they must bring back Saturday Night Divas! It was rumoured to be a medley with Something Kinda Funny in 2019, but never materialised. It would have fitted perfectly in that section, or even right after Love Thing. I guess Victoria's part was massive in that one, so Geri would have had to step up. All great songs so far though! All deserve to be in the top teirs of their discography! Never Give Up On The Good Times was definitely the single that went away. WHAT A BOP! And it always pops off live   This post has been edited by Mr.X: 3rd January 2023, 11:32 PM |
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4th January 2023, 03:34 AM
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QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 3 2023, 10:29 PM) I know you are right but honestly this is so depressing... The fact that artists now condition themselves to under 3mins so they can be streamed better is so vile... There are a bunch of new releases who have started to go against this, such as Beyonce's last album and SZA's as well (one of the tracks goes over 6mins!). I hope the algorhythm changes as this is killing the artistic freedom of lesser known artists in favour of a stupid platforms' rules! I mean it's not an 'algorithm' thing, it's just... maths. Good luck changing the fundamental fact that shorter songs can be streamed more times in the same period of time than longer ones  (Obviously there are going to be exceptions with longer songs that nonetheless stream very well - 'All Too Well (Taylor's Version) (10 Minute Version)' says hello - but the general trend going to shorter songs was just inevitable).Shocked and appalled that 'Spice Invaders' isn't #1 here tbh. x |
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 4th January 2023, 08:58 AM
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QUOTE(Brer @ Jan 4 2023, 05:34 AM) I mean it's not an 'algorithm' thing, it's just... maths. Good luck changing the fundamental fact that shorter songs can be streamed more times in the same period of time than longer ones This trend could be reversed if Spotify paid artists by stream duration rather than by stream count. 
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4th January 2023, 11:10 AM
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QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jan 4 2023, 08:58 AM) This trend could be reversed if Spotify paid artists by stream duration rather than by stream count. That would be equally awful and you would end up with a load of 8 minute songs. The main problem is the charts companies let streaming run away without getting proper control of it and now we are too far down the rabbit hole. There are so many areas where streams and how they are counted for the charts if we started from scratch now would almost certainly be different. Firstly allowing songs to endlessly earn 'sales' from streaming thus now most of the biggest selling songs ever are recent hits from the streaming era. Streams from playlists essentially deciding the singles chart these days. Album streams not being from people actually clicking on and playing the album and so on. |
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4th January 2023, 02:00 PM
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12th: Holler
Over the many years that we've been tracking the Spice Girls' streaming progress on Spotify, 'Holler' would usually always out-stream 'Goodbye', apart from at Christmas time. This was a bit of a curiosity considering that 'Goodbye' was a considerably bigger hit back in the day. Well, the tide has turned, because 'Holler' is below it this year. I don't think 'Holler' has experienced a particularly notable dip in streams, I think it's more the case that 'Goodbye' experienced a surge. Anyway, this 2000 released song was the first taste of the American-produced R&B direction that they'd decided to pursue on their third album 'Forever'. Personally I think this is still a fresh sounding single, one of my ultimate favourites. Even though this ranks as their third lowest single in this count down, it is at least considerably far ahead of the numbers that 'Let Love Lead the Way' and 'Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)' are managing. 2022 Streams: 3,467,481 Total Streams: 22,445,516 ---------- 11th: Goodbye 2022 surely must have been Goodbye's strongest ever year for streaming. Over 23% of its lifetime stream count occurred last year, and it outpaced 'Holler' by over a million streams. That's quite the turn around and I'm certainly happy to see 'Goodbye' getting more attention than usual! I wonder what has caused this climb? Long may it continue, because 'Goodbye' is getting very close to being a "millionaire" seller in the UK (a recent sales figure is 977,000). Keep streaming! 2022 Streams: 4,475,452 Total Streams: 19,294,832 ---------- 10th: Christmas Wrapping This must be the first time that the Spice Girls' Top 10 streamed songs of the year on Spotify weren't all singles! Starting off their Top 10 is 'Christmas Wrapping', which is the B Side to 'Goodbye'. Who would have ever thought that the B Side would one day receive more attention than the A Side? It's all thanks to Spotify adding 'Christmas Wrapping' to the Christmas Pop playlist towards the beginning of December. This lifted the song from its usual "a few thousand streams a day" status, to hundreds of thousands per day - with an incredible peak of 452,003 plays on Christmas Eve. To put that into context, on just that day alone 'Christmas Wrapping' was streamed more times than 'Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)' in the entirety of 2022 (436,848 plays)! Over 80% of 'Christmas Wrapping' overall streams occurred in 2022. This certainly demonstrates the extreme power of being prominent on a popular playlist. Although 'Christmas Wrapping' is credited to Spice Girls, it is in fact a duet between Melanie C and Emma Bunton. Their two pregnant bandmates were taking time off! 2022 Streams: 4,746,334 Total Streams: 5,916,548 |
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4th January 2023, 02:38 PM
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Did you combine Holler and Hollier???
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4th January 2023, 03:11 PM
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Been meaning to comment on this, great countdown!
Just shows what being on a playlist can do with Christmas Wrapping being in the top 10! |
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4th January 2023, 03:17 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 4 2023, 01:10 PM) That would be equally awful and you would end up with a load of 8 minute songs. Not necessarily. Artists would have to create good songs, otherwise people would skip or not listen to them at all. |
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4th January 2023, 03:19 PM
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Thats really great about Goodbye! Surely it got a bump from the Christmas Wrapping but if it continues to grow at this wonderful pace, hopefully it can reach the million-seller mark sooner than expected!!
Do we have any indication of when it might cross it Jay? |
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4th January 2023, 03:43 PM
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QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jan 4 2023, 03:17 PM) Not necessarily. Artists would have to create good songs, otherwise people would skip or not listen to them at all. Quality is subjective though. Some people would say the Spice Girls music is shit. |
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