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bart wrote:Would be interesting if there were an option to filter for unique users

It would be - and to try and account for KD’s point. What songs are on other playlists, etc

Are formal greatest hits listened tracked separately? If I listened to Corduroy on RVM is that a unique listen compared to a Vitalogy play

stip wrote:

bart wrote:Would be interesting if there were an option to filter for unique users

It would be - and to try and account for KD’s point. What songs are on other playlists, etc

Are formal greatest hits listened tracked separately? If I listened to Corduroy on RVM is that a unique listen compared to a Vitalogy play

It's too bad they guard this info with their lives.

I think they are unique, but I'm not positive.

they don't update in real time, unfortunately

Interesting list! I don't have Spotify - what are the numbers for Yellow Ledbetter and Last Kiss?

Yellow Ledbetter: 172 million. It also looks like the number is constant across formats (YL is the same number on Lost Dogs and the GH, but not different versions)

Breath: 4 million
State of Love and Trust: 32 million
Last Kiss: 197 million
Man of the Hour: 9 million
I Got Shit: 4 million
Long Road: 2 million

It’d be interesting to see some of the figures for their contemporaries.

Lot of Last Kiss fans out there I guess.

Last Kiss is 1) amazing 2) the top of the slippery slope

Last Kiss was an enormous hit, not surprised it gets so many plays

bart wrote:Last Kiss was an enormous hit, not surprised it gets so many plays

Last Kiss was “their” biggest hit - #2 if I remember correctly. Also, massive fan backlash to it despite the fact that the single was for fan club members then for Kosovo refugees.

Was there really backlash?

I don't remember a fan backlash. But I definitely knew some non-fans in college who HATED it and gave me all kinds of shit.

Suppose spotify was around in the lead up to Vs those numbers would be massive.

McParadigm wrote:It’d be interesting to see some of the figures for their contemporaries.

I'll have a look at some more, but:

NIRVANA

Smells Like Teen Spirit: 1214
Come As You Are: 752
Heart-Shaped Box: 422
Lithium: 387
The Man Who Sold the World: 266
In Bloom: 201
About a Girl: 173
Rape Me: 156
Something in the Way: 151
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: 147

Numbers again provided in the millions, so Teen Spirit is well over a billion plays.

I think Rape Me and Something in the Way have recently shot up those rankings as they were prominently used in (respectively) Succession and that new Batman movie.

Smashing Pumpkins

1979: 366
Bullet with Butterfly Wings: 224
Tonight Tonight: 144
Disarm: 138
Today: 138 *
Cherub Rock: 127
Zero: 71
Landslide: 44
Drown: 38
Ava Adore: 28

* Spotify is keeping separate tallies for Today from Siamese Dream and the Rotten Apples compilation, so I added them together for this purpose (which seems more accurate).

I'm curious about Radiohead

Soundgarden

Black Hole Sun: 436
Spoonman: 132
Fell on Black Days: 109
Outshined: 68
Rusty Cage: 63
Burden in My Hand: 47
The Day I Tried to Live: 46
Blow Up the Outside World: 25
Pretty Noose: 18
My Wave: 18

Assuming that’s the unplugged version of About a Girl

bart wrote:Assuming that’s the unplugged version of About a Girl

No, it's the Bleach version, which is also on their Greatest Hits comp.

The Unplugged version only has 77 million plays.

RockPusher wrote:I'm curious about Radiohead

Creep: 881
Karma Police: 324
No Surprises: 239
High and Dry: 239
Fake Plastic Trees: 187
Paranoid Android: 141
Exit Music (for a Film): 106
Weird Fishes/Arpgeggi: 92
Everything in its Right Place: 87
Burn the Witch: 69