9 hours ago, Mr.X said:

I just discovered that YouTube Music is a whole different thing from youtube.com lol It's almost like a Spotify version of YouTube where the focus is on the tracks but also you can also watch videos there...

The video streams seem the same as the YouTube.com page but the music is different! They have millions of plays there too... for instance:

Wannabe 1 billion streams

Viva Forever 153million

Say You'll Be There 126million

Spice Up Your Life 64million

2 Become 1 105million

Stop 85million

Who do You Think You Are 47million

Too Much 40million

Mama 45million

Goodbye 40million

Holler 32million

LLLTW 9million

Headlines 7million

They also have 85million regular listeners of their music which is incredible!

It's quite something, I think! Plus all the videos. Considering YouTubeMusic is quite a recent streaming platform, it looks like they do really well there

Well i ditched spotify over a year ago, and been using YouTube music since then. I've been listening to their music on YouTube music, so I'm one of those regular listeners 😄

1 hour ago, Yousee said:

Well i ditched spotify over a year ago, and been using YouTube music since then. I've been listening to their music on YouTube music, so I'm one of those regular listeners 😄

It is the reason I discovered YouTubeMusic as well eheheh

I deleted my Spotify account because the CEO of that company is literally funding genocide in Palestine and investing in ams sales across Europe. Plus, the quality of the music is f***ing horrible. Plus, Spotify is one of the platforms that pays artists the least, whereas Apple Music, YouTubeMusic and Tidal seem the best for artist income and have better sound quality overall.

YouTubeMusic seems like the best next thing for me! I am toying between that and Apple Music at the moment

Definitely sticking with YouTubeMusic for now!

Free Me (the song) has over 1million streams on there, and Life in Mono album streams are much healthier than on Spotify. Plus, even the free version pays the artists better, and the sound is much much better than Spotify.

I’m fairly sure these YouTube Music play counts are partly derived from video uploads on YouTube? So Free Me’s 1m isn’t 1m streams in addition to its YouTube video view counts, it incorporates them.

Sound quality, I feel it ultimately comes down to the ear of the beholder, so if someone prefers a particular service and thinks it sounds better than another then that’s totally valid imo. Strictly speaking though regarding specs, YouTube is 256kbps lossy and Spotify is now lossless, so technically speaking YouTube Music is inferior quality. YouTube doesn’t utilise an equaliser, whereas Spotify does (although that setting can be turned off) which may be why YouTube Music seems to sound better to some people than Spotify does (at least, when Spotify was also lossy - I’ve not heard it since it changed to lossless). I’m on Apple Music at the moment because of using a free trial, and I appreciate the sound quality of it… but it’s hard for me not to feel like gravitating back to Spotify once it’s done. I find the Spotify interface, as well as desktop/phone/other device syncing, to be far more intuitive than other services. Apple Music desktop on windows is horrendous. YouTube Music doesn’t have folders for playlists, or at least it didn’t when I last tried it (which I find annoying from an organisational point of view), and neither does it have the ability to scrobble to last.fm (personally important for me) so those are dealbreakers!

(I appreciate this is very off topic to launch into this lol)

28 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

I’m fairly sure these YouTube Music play counts are partly derived from video uploads on YouTube? So Free Me’s 1m isn’t 1m streams in addition to its YouTube video view counts, it incorporates them.

Sound quality, I feel it ultimately comes down to the ear of the beholder, so if someone prefers a particular service and thinks it sounds better than another then that’s totally valid imo. Strictly speaking though regarding specs, YouTube is 256kbps lossy and Spotify is now lossless, so technically speaking YouTube Music is inferior quality. YouTube doesn’t utilise an equaliser, whereas Spotify does (although that setting can be turned off) which may be why YouTube Music seems to sound better to some people than Spotify does (at least, when Spotify was also lossy - I’ve not heard it since it changed to lossless). I’m on Apple Music at the moment because of using a free trial, and I appreciate the sound quality of it… but it’s hard for me not to feel like gravitating back to Spotify once it’s done. I find the Spotify interface, as well as desktop/phone/other device syncing, to be far more intuitive than other services. Apple Music desktop on windows is horrendous. YouTube Music doesn’t have folders for playlists, or at least it didn’t when I last tried it (which I find annoying from an organisational point of view), and neither does it have the ability to scrobble to last.fm (personally important for me) so those are dealbreakers!

(I appreciate this is very off topic to launch into this lol)

I thought so too at first about the video uploads feeing into these, BUT in the case of Free Me and Maybe, there are no official uploads of Free Me and Maybe videos from Emma's channel. It's all fan uploads, which i dont think would count?...

I prefered Apple for sure for quality but overall I find it quite expensive to pay for that service and agree that it's not as easy to navigate, which is why I am sticking with YouTubeMusic for now...

As far as I know, Spotify is only lossless for Premium paying, which i am not doing (Spotify is funding the development of AI technology in warfare across EU and Middle East, just this year it funded it by the tune of £600million!!!). Plus, Spotify pays the artists some of the least whereas teh others pay better.

Edited September 28Sep 28 by Mr.X

WDYTYA (album version) has reached 98 million streams on Spotify and should reach 100m in early December. VF is also due to cross 100m on Spotify in 2026.

It will look so much better on their Spotify to have several songs over 100m 😊

3 hours ago, Spice Girls Net said:

WDYTYA (album version) has reached 98 million streams on Spotify and should reach 100m in early December. VF is also due to cross 100m on Spotify in 2026.

It will look so much better on their Spotify to have several songs over 100m 😊

Yes!! It will be a bit steep until we get some more though as the next one would be Mama and that is only at 46million ☹️ and Holler is finally almost at 30million at least, but it should be at well over 200million!!!

Just noticed 'Not Such An Innocent Girl' is track #1 on Spotify UK's Throwback Thursday and Victoria is the cover!

1 hour ago, Liam.k. said:

Just noticed 'Not Such An Innocent Girl' is track #1 on Spotify UK's Throwback Thursday and Victoria is the cover!

yeah all solo projects are represented as well:

#1 Victoria - Not Such An Innocent Girl

#22 Emma - What I Am

#31 Melanie C - I Turn To You (Album version)

#43 Geri - Look At Me

#48 Mel G - Word Up

That's a pretty popular playlist so good on them, I hope the streams get much healthier! I wish they had picked Emma's Maybe though

Been keeping an eye on WDYTYA on Spotify and it’s finally reached 99m streams. It does approx 1.5m+ per month so hopefully it’ll get there late November 🙌