Surprises from Analyzing Spotify Streaming Data

We examined data from the daily Top 200 Global Spotify charts (courtesy of spotifycharts.com), which begin on January 1, 2017.1 Here’s what we learned:

Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”, which first hit the charts on January 6, 2017, has almost twice as many recorded streams as any other song in our dataset. Only two artists have had at least one song in the top 200 every day since January 1, 2017: Ed Sheeran (naturally), and J Balvin, a Colombian artist best known for “Mi Gente”, which ruled the charts for a solid chunk of summer 2017, despite never eclipsing 7th on the U.S. chart. We’ve created a Spotify playlist of the 20 songs with the most streams that have never appeared on the U.S. Top 200 – check it out here or play it below.

Source: readypipe.com