In preparation for Swift's album coming out in a few weeks I thought these figures might be of interest. Goes back to 1 Jan 2017 which the chart site goes back to. Beyonce clear well below the big boy league though. What I was more surprised at was Sprinter doing higher streams than driver's license or good 4 u.

 

Top 10 Highest Daily Streams

1. 2,889,765 (25-12-2023) Wham! - Last Christmas

2. 2,801,638 (15-10-2021) Adele - Easy on Me

3. 2,720,431 (25-12-2023) Brenda Lee - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

4. 2,669,539 (25-12-2022) Wham! Last Christmas

5. 2,643,661 (25-12-2023) Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You

6. 2,555,381 (25-12-2020) Wham! - Last Christmas

7. 2,492,635 (25-12-2020) Brenda Lee - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

8. 2,444,375 (25-12-2020) Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

9. 2,410,755 (25-12-2022) Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You

10. 2,243,660 (25-12-2020) Brenda Lee - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

 

Top 10 Highest Daily Streams Excluding Christmas

1. 2,801,638 (15-10-2021) Adele - Easy on Me

2. 1,729,543 (16-10-2021) Adele - Easy On Me

3. 1,472,625 (11-07-2021) Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

4. 1,409,140 (18-10-2021) Adele - Easy On Me

5. 1,342,576 (17-10-2021) Adele - Easy On Me

6. 1,323,982 (09-01-2017) Ed Sheeran - Shape of You

7. 1,295,532 (05-06-2023) Dave, Central Cee - Sprinter

8. 1,280,898 (06-01-2017) Ed Sheeran - Shape of You

9. 1,269,141 (19-10-2021) Adele - Easy on Me

10. 1,265,147 (02-06-2023) Dave, Central Cee - Sprinter

Edited March 30, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype

So in your opinion only Adele, Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds, Ed Sheeran, Dave and Central Cee are in the “big boy league”? Give it a rest

Edited March 30, 20241 yr by No Sleeep

Renaissance debuted with 3.8 million UK streams, Cowboy Carter debuted with 6.1 million. That’s much better than a “modest” improvement

 

I'm talking about its OCC first week total. The Spotify number is a bit inflated by it having so many more tracks (many of which won't count at all to the OCC numbers because only the top 16 songs contribute to that total). Also depends on how it holds up over the week compared to 'RENAISSANCE' which is why I said 'at least'.

 

(the totals of the 3rd-16th highest songs on day 1 (plus the top 2 weighted down) were 3,435,744 for 'RENAISSANCE' and 4,277,435 for 'COWBOY CARTER')

So in your opinion only Adele, Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds, Ed Sheeran, Dave and Central Cee are in the “big boy league”? Give it a rest

 

Ed Sheeran and Adele are definitely in the big boy league - artists who can appeal to a wide variety of music fans and consistently pull in big streaming numbers. They're in a class of their own as far as the UK streaming public goes.

 

Dave is definitely a big league star in the UK - I think most people would accept Central Cee isn't an only got that many streams because he's on a Dave track.

 

Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds probably fall in the same exemption as Christmas songs - but weren't removed because they aren't a Christmas song. I wouldn't really describe them as big boy league. If you remove that track, you promote Olivia Rodrigo to the Top 10 so Rodrigo's got a far more sturdy claim to being in the big boy league than Beyonce will ever have.

 

There's many artists just below that tier who are very successful including Beyonce.

 

Amazon

1. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" (+ 64, 106 & 109)

34. "JOLENE"

43. "II MOST WANTED"

122. "BLACKBIIRD"

128. "BODYGUARD"

204. "AMERIICAN REQUIEM"

328. "SPAGEHETTII"

333. "PROTECTOR"

361. "16 CARRIAGES" (+ 534)

362. "RIIVERDANCE"

375. "SMOKE DANCE * WILLIE NELSON"

419. "DAUGHTER"

428. "MY ROSE"

480. "LEVII'S JEANS"

495. "JUST FOR FUN"

535. "SWEET * HONEY * BUCKIN"

660. "YA YA"

679. "ALLIGATOR TEARS"

1. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" (+ 26, 115 & 279)

21. "JOLENE"

34. "II MOST WANTED"

93. "BLACKBIIRD"

136. "BODYGUARD"

284. "AMERIICAN REQUIEM"

335. "RIIVERDANCE"

394. "SPAGEHETTII"

402. "DAUGHTER"

412. "LEVII'S JEANS"

449. "16 CARRIAGES" (+ 508)

470. "PROTECTOR"

476. "JUST FOR FUN"

507. "SMOKE DANCE * WILLIE NELSON"

520. "SWEET * HONEY * BUCKIN"

594. "MY ROSE"

658. "AMEN"

731. "TYRANT"

778. "YA YA"

831. "ALLIGATOR TEARS"

1068. "FLAMENCO"

1142. "DESERT EAGLE"

1359. "II HANDS II HEAVEN"

 

The album still climbing overall on Amazon with almost the entire album now appearing. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" likely getting a nice lead on Amazon to help it this week to get another week at #1 in the chart. Beyoncé's numbers are amazing!!

 

Also some other songs on Amazon for those interested:

 

3. Hozier - "Too Sweet"

5. Benson Boone - "Slow It down"

6. Meghan Trainor & T-Pain - "Been Like This"

11. Olivia Rodrigo - "Obsessed"

Edited March 30, 20241 yr by Envoirment

Ed Sheeran and Adele are definitely in the big boy league - artists who can appeal to a wide variety of music fans and consistently pull in big streaming numbers. They're in a class of their own as far as the UK streaming public goes.

 

Dave is definitely a big league star in the UK - I think most people would accept Central Cee isn't an only got that many streams because he's on a Dave track.

 

Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds probably fall in the same exemption as Christmas songs - but weren't removed because they aren't a Christmas song. I wouldn't really describe them as big boy league. If you remove that track, you promote Olivia Rodrigo to the Top 10 so Rodrigo's got a far more sturdy claim to being in the big boy league than Beyonce will ever have.

 

There's many artists just below that tier who are very successful including Beyonce.

 

I think as an artist Beyonce has a right to be in this so called league it’s just here main eras were long before streaming so it’s not accurate to compare her streams despite the fact she’s doing excellently on the platform now especially after Renassiance!

Dave and Olivia Rodrigo bigger than Beyoncé. Suuuuure. Lol

Ed Sheeran and Adele are definitely in the big boy league - artists who can appeal to a wide variety of music fans and consistently pull in big streaming numbers. They're in a class of their own as far as the UK streaming public goes.

 

Dave is definitely a big league star in the UK - I think most people would accept Central Cee isn't an only got that many streams because he's on a Dave track.

 

Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds probably fall in the same exemption as Christmas songs - but weren't removed because they aren't a Christmas song. I wouldn't really describe them as big boy league. If you remove that track, you promote Olivia Rodrigo to the Top 10 so Rodrigo's got a far more sturdy claim to being in the big boy league than Beyonce will ever have.

 

There's many artists just below that tier who are very successful including Beyonce.

 

Wat?? Hsvd you seen Adele and Chedy Fad's recent salea?! Adele even had a song called Can I ... Get A Hit!!! And it wasn't even a hit!!! Beyknce is bigger than both.

 

I think as an artist Beyonce has a right to be in this so called league it’s just here main eras were long before streaming so it’s not accurate to compare her streams despite the fact she’s doing excellently on the platform now especially after Renassiance!

 

I'm clearly talking about modern artists and how they've performed in the streaming era. Specifically 2017 to the modern day for which the information is readily available. Yes Beyonce was a superstar in her day. That's the point in her day, not in the current streaming era as denoted in my post. Maybe one of her songs will take off and do superstar level streaming numbers, but so far they are only respectable numbers. Not that there's much wrong with that - not everyone can be Ed Sheeran or Adele. But the fact Beyonce hasn't had a single song hit 1m daily streams (a much lower threshold than my personal bar of Top 10) is telling.

To be fair, Beyoncé hurt herself quite a bit with Tidal exclusivity with Lemonade (wasn't put on spotify until 3 years post-release). Not to mentioned her surprise album Beyoncé was also delayed a year on spotify.

 

The last two albums she's finally released on spotify from the get go. She likely hurt herself from playlist favourability of her back catalogue and such in the 2010s. But with how well Renaissance did and now Cowboy Carter is doing, she'll see her streaming presence on the platform strengthened further and her back catalogue getting boosted most likely.

 

Really interested to see if her ACT III album will improve further on Cowboy Carter in a couple years time! It's great to see Beyoncé's streaming finally match just how big of a star she is!

Edited March 30, 20241 yr by Envoirment

I'm clearly talking about modern artists and how they've performed in the streaming era. Specifically 2017 to the modern day for which the information is readily available. Yes Beyonce was a superstar in her day. That's the point in her day, not in the current streaming era as denoted in my post. Maybe one of her songs will take off and do superstar level streaming numbers, but so far they are only respectable numbers. Not that there's much wrong with that - not everyone can be Ed Sheeran or Adele. But the fact Beyonce hasn't had a single song hit 1m daily streams (a much lower threshold than my personal bar of Top 10) is telling.

 

But she has still done fine numbers, hardly to be sniffed at. She’s clearly crossed over into the streaming era as well? Surely that is an even better achievement considering she isn’t in her biggest eras. The ‘in her day’ comment suggests she’s a legacy artist which she clearly isn’t at the minute.

I'm clearly talking about modern artists and how they've performed in the streaming era. Specifically 2017 to the modern day for which the information is readily available. Yes Beyonce was a superstar in her day. That's the point in her day, not in the current streaming era as denoted in my post. Maybe one of her songs will take off and do superstar level streaming numbers, but so far they are only respectable numbers. Not that there's much wrong with that - not everyone can be Ed Sheeran or Adele. But the fact Beyonce hasn't had a single song hit 1m daily streams (a much lower threshold than my personal bar of Top 10) is telling.

 

Did you sign up to this forum specifically to downplay Beyoncé’s success? You have 4 posts and they all do that in some way. I really don’t understand it. You said you were expecting more from Cowboy Carter (even though it almost doubled the debut of her last album), and now you’re saying you never thought she was a “superstar”? Which is it?

Did you sign up to this forum specifically to downplay Beyoncé’s success? You have 4 posts and they all do that in some way. I really don’t understand it. You said you were expecting more from Cowboy Carter (even though it almost doubled the debut of her last album), and now you’re saying you never thought she was a “superstar”? Which is it?

 

I had her down as a superstar and am a bit of a fan of hers - I most have played II Most Wanted about 50 times the past few days, but the stats don't lie as far as records go she's not gonna threaten any Spotify records with anything she releases any time soon. I think we need to move into an era where we accept that the superstars of our childhood aren't current day superstars when the stats suggest that.

Edited March 30, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype

I had her down as a superstar and am a big fan of hers - I most have played II Most Wanted about 50 times the past few days, but the stats don't lie as far as records go she's not gonna threaten any Spotify records with anything she releases any time soon. I think we need to move into an era where we accept that the superstars of our childhood aren't current day superstars when the stats suggest that.

 

Except she is only 1 of 5 female artists to be the #1 most streamed artist on spotify. Her recent tour was the biggest grossing female tour of all time (until Taylor took over recently, but Taylor is just in a league of her own). Her album did more than Ariana Grande's album who is one of the biggest female artists currently and who is one of the most streamed female aritsts. Beyoncé also became the artist to win the most grammys of all time earlier this year.

 

She's every bit of a superstar currently as she was previously. If anything, I would argue she's even bigger now.

Edited March 30, 20241 yr by Envoirment

Beyoncé just got the highest Spotify debut for an album of the year so far and the 6th highest debut for a woman ever, and that’s still not enough to be considered a “superstar” to you. I wholeheartedly disagree

Except she is only 1 of 5 female artists to be the #1 most streamed artist on spotify. Her recent tour was the biggest grossing female tour of all time (until Taylor took over recently, but Taylor is just in a league of her own). Her album did more than Ariana Grande's album who is one of the biggest female artists currently and who is one of the most streamed female aritsts. Beyoncé also became the artist to win the most grammys of all time earlier this year.

 

She's every bit of a superstar currently as she was previously. If anything, I would argue she's even bigger now.

 

Those are all global statistics, I'm talking about in the UK. In the UK she can't touch Ed Sheeran or Adele. As her streaming numbers on the Spotify Charts show.

Those are all global statistics, I'm talking about in the UK. In the UK she can't touch Ed Sheeran or Adele. As her streaming numbers on the Spotify Charts show.

 

Her album is outperforming Ed's latest offering by a mile so I don't see what you are talking about there. :lol:

 

Adele will likely see a significant drop next album. 30 had the benefit of the 25 era being massive. I don't see Adele being so lucky for the next album.

 

Even so, you act like you can't have more than one Superstar :lol: Beyoncé is every bit as big in the UK as globally. The fact she's just had her longest running #1 in the UK over 20 years into her career.

Those are all global statistics, I'm talking about in the UK. In the UK she can't touch Ed Sheeran or Adele. As her streaming numbers on the Spotify Charts show.

 

Ed, whose last album only spawned 4 (!) UK Spotify top 200 entries on its release day. I’m pretty certain Beyoncé can “touch” him

 

I’m done replying, you’re not making any sense whatsoever.

Her album is outperforming Ed's latest offering by a mile so I don't see what you are talking about there. :lol:

 

Adele will likely see a significant drop next album. 30 had the benefit of the 25 era being massive. I don't see Adele being so lucky for the next album.

 

Even so, you act like you can't have more than one Superstar :lol: Beyoncé is every bit as big in the UK as globally. The fact she's just had her longest running #1 in the UK over 20 years into her career.

 

Wait until Ed drops an actual album, Autumn Variations doesn't count. He'll rightfully stream far more than what Beyonce's getting for her current lead singles.

Wait until Ed drops an actual album, Autumn Variations doesn't count. He'll rightfully stream far more than what Beyonce's getting for her current lead singles.

 

Not too sure. Ed Sheeran had 5 year period where anything he did got crazy numbers but that time period is over and there isn’t really a demand for more ed Sheeran