We know that many songs that have held the test of time were not always the ones that were most popular when they were released. It's got me wondering what the year end charts would look like if we based them on the success of songs on streaming platforms.

 

I have no idea whether this is something that has been done before or not, presumably we could at least work out a rough idea from looking at the streams of the top 100 from each year or so?

 

Any ideas?

 

IIRC Bohemian Rhapsody and Wonderwall are the most streamed tracks released pre-2000.

if you do a Spotify search and type "year:" then the year you want to type in you can kinda find this info out. for example year:1999 will give you All Star by Smash Mouth as the top result but I think that's only based on what is currently the most popular as that has 721m streams yet I Want It That Way which is the 4th result sits on 851m.

 

then you also have the problem of songs being in the wrong years for various reasons I.e. Careless Whisper is in the 1998 results cos that's when his greatest hits album was out

I remember reading something like this before.

I think it may have been this.

https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/most...ify-uk-by-year/

well that's a frighteningly AOR-inspired list, as they used to call Yacht Rock and the post-80's equivalents!

 

"Alexa, play something bland and overplayed"

 

"Playing Ed Sheeran, and some Christmas songs you've heard a million times a year" :lol: