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Also John Legend and Beyoncé have songs called Green Light.

I know what you mean. But if you go a cheesy pop club or New Years Eve party in the UK by actual human DJs, something like Call My Name by Cheryl Cole or The Ketchup Song, might get a play but they get overlooked on the Spotify playlists. And yeah, we do play Tik Tok and Timber over here too. If the human DJs and radio stations have room for all of them the Spotify playlists can do it too.

Just like the Christmas playlists, it seems like these New Year's playlists are very US-centric (to re-iterate, I doesn't matter that Charli XCX, Ed Sheeran, Amy Winehouse, etc. are British, they got famous in the US 10+ years ago). Things like S Club 7, Dizzee Rascal, Girls Aloud, Vengaboys, etc, should be charting today as they're just as beloved here as Kesha for example, but get overlooked due to not being famous in the US. It makes me sad for some reason.

It's honestly my favorite Spotify chart each year and has a ton of movement and loads of surprises and most of the biggest pop stars show up. We won't get another one like this all year.

Are they outselling Blinding Lights enough to overtake though?

I think he has loads of classic songs. And Baby By Me went viral this year so that probably helped a bit too.

I think for this discussion you have to differentiate between the international UK artists and the local ones. People like Adele, Ed Sheeran, Charli XCX, Harry Styles, etc, already made it big in the US 10+ years ago. The recent changes in the music industry aren't hurting them very much. It's the UK artists who never broke the US who are struggling the most as they don't get included (or even considered) on English-language playlists, like the Little Mix girls for example.

My favorite SZA song is Snooze, I absolutely adore it, I could listen forever.

When AI becomes better its going to be able to generate custom songs for every user based on their listening history. For example if you listen to nothing but mid-10's Taylor Swift songs AI will just be able to generate songs of that style for the rest of your life. At least I think that's the next logical step. I guess there's no way they could be counted for the chart though. But if we think monoculture is dead now, it could get far worse with everybody just having music and films and TV shows and books generated that cater perfectly to their taste that nobody else will experience.

There was a promotional campaign last year too for Brenda Lee, with no reset. Although I wouldn't actually be against Christmas songs being able to get resets. There's probably a dozen which could be able to reach #1 if reset. It would be better than Wham getting it every year.

In theory posting something on social media with 10s of millions of followers is fantastic promo, but it's happened countless times now that an artist has done that with flop singles. So I don't know how effective that really is tbh.

I thought it was pretty obvious that George Michael's death is what pushed Last Christmas to biggest Christmas song. It got a big boost after he passed and now it's many years later we can say it seems to be a permanent boost. If he was still alive Mariah would still be the top song for sure.

Can someone explain what's happened regarding Michael Buble?

I think it would've been completely unrecognizable. It would've had such a massive knock-on effect. The radio and MTV playlists would've changed to reflect the streaming artists, singles would be completely different too with album tracks being able to be streamed. The artists themselves would've released different music. Some artists we know and love may not actually ever have been signed.

That's probably the most female-dominated radio playlist I've ever seen. Not that it's a bad thing, there are a plethora or radio stations out there playing 90%+ males (if you're a rock, dance or rap station it can be hard to avoid that tbh).

I'm glad Murder on the Dancefloor did so well this year, but at one point it looked certain for year-end top 10. Of course I couldn't forsee at the time that it would be taken off TikTok (it fell quick-ish after that and didn't really recover), and we had those couple of months of insanely high streams on Spotify which allowed a lot of new releases to get higher on the year-end chart this year, had those things not happened it was looking to be top 10 imo.

I reckon every artist who's been top 40 has been mentioned here. Especially Milli Vanilli who are quite notorious.

Wow really interesting list. Thanks for posting. :) Although I'm sure T.I. has many top 20 hits in the UK? Live Your Life, Dead And Gone, Blurred Lines, Change Your Life and My Love off the top of my head. Probably missed some.

One of my regrets honestly is that we didn't post the Spotify charts from the beginning. I remember first looking at the Spotify charts in 2010, it would have been great if we had an archive of them.

The Weeknd's recent slide from the top of the charts might surprise some, but it reflects the competitive and evolving nature of the music scene. While he dominated for a while, newer singles and artists have been gaining ground quickly. For instance, his track "Dancing in the Flames" hasn't been able to maintain a higher position for long. On the album charts, his older projects like Starboy and After Hours have seen significant drops. This decline could be linked to the rise of other popular artists like Zach Bryan and Noah Kahan, who are both seeing massive success. The charts are constantly shifting, so while The Weeknd is still a powerhouse, even top-tier artists face moments when they step aside for the next wave.

Do you guys think there's a reason why women are dominating the 2024 releases. Like is it because they have more fans who will buy physicals. Or is it just a coincidence? Like the top 7 2024 albums being all by women would be a 1 in 128 (???) chance if it was purely random. And actually probably less because I think there are probably more males signed to major record labels.

I think maybe Til I Collapse by Eminem could be a contender.

I think #1, although I'm surprised so many think over 50,000? If she manages it then great for her, but that's a LOT for these days.

^Ed Sheeran's entire discography seems to have fallen a lot in recurrent streams the past year or so I've noticed. It's nice the songs at the top of the list are all so close! I remember when there was almost no movement in the all-time list for years on end.

Bruno and Gaga have both probably been playlisted by Radio 2 for ages, probably as long as 10 years ago. Lots of artists are playlisted by both simulatenously, especially when they make AC-leaning music. Noah Kahan and Teddy Swims are on the Radio 2 playlist this year, I doesn't mean they aren't contemporary, it just means they're crossover artists, which is a good thing really.