
The channel itself has over 1.1 billion streams. To put this into perspective Suede have 175 million streams. The only two British 90's bands who are doing better are Oasis and Radiohead.
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It is a Spotify era song. That is going to give it an artificial push as a decent percentage of people who like the Universal will already own it and may use other devices to listen to it. A newer song will also be listened to more to see if they like it. This will likely level out over the years.
It's crazy isn't it how random songs become popularidreamofpikas wrote: ↑08 Feb 2021, 11:49It is a Spotify era song. That is going to give it an artificial push as a decent percentage of people who like the Universal will already own it and may use other devices to listen to it. A newer song will also be listened to more to see if they like it. This will likely level out over the years.
Music released after 2012 will have this boost because that is when Spotify started to become mainstream.
I think they took it off YouTube as well? Maybe it was a band decision?
I think a theory I saw before was the algorithm heavily pushing it to Gorillaz fans, which does make sense. But agree it looks so weird to see it that high up.
I doubt it a human bias but the algorithm recommending songs that are most likely to be played to the end (rather than skipped) and possibly liked by the person listening to them.
Both are now on 27.7 million. They are fantastic amounts for songs from the 90's that did not break America, still by the far the largest music listening audience. They'd make the top 5 of every other British 90's band apart from Oasis, Radiohead and the Verve (only one would make the top 5, the other would have to settle for 6th).