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That’s cool! The Weeknd taking top honors in English does surprise me.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:51 am The Weeknd taking top honors in English does surprise me.

Same, though that might be a sign of my age.

thank you for sharing, nice discoveries....

vlad wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:17 am

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• Chinese (Mandarin): Teresa Teng - 月亮代表我的心 (24.1 million)

I think the biggest lesson of this bullet point is that the Chinese internet doesn't use Spotify. (And possibly that Cantonese-speakers use it more than Mandarin-speakers.)

Elancholia wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:16 pm

vlad wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:17 am

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• Chinese (Mandarin): Teresa Teng - 月亮代表我的心 (24.1 million)

I think the biggest lesson of this bullet point is that the Chinese internet doesn't use Spotify. (And possibly that Cantonese-speakers use it more than Mandarin-speakers.)

Could also be that there's some other more popular Mandarin songs that I just haven't found yet.

That Welsh-language entry is unexpected. I wonder if maybe it was used in a video game or something, in addition to the movie?

Equating "song" with a manifestation of a work (to use FRBR terminology) also skews the numbers in a particular way, away from traditional tunes and old standards which have been recorded by many different artists and towards recent pop hits. (Just adding up the viewing numbers for a clutch of videos of "Yma o hyd", the unofficial anthem of the Welsh national football team, I quickly get to nearly 7 million.)

I'm pretty sure no one goes to Spotify to listen to Bengali songs. I'm getting a higher view count by searching YouTube for "bengali OR bangla OR বাংলা song" and sorting by views: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... p=CAM%253D

we should all come up with our favourite song in every language...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:51 am That Welsh-language entry is unexpected. I wonder if maybe it was used in a video game or something, in addition to the movie?

Equating "song" with a manifestation of a work (to use FRBR terminology) also skews the numbers in a particular way, away from traditional tunes and old standards which have been recorded by many different artists and towards recent pop hits. (Just adding up the viewing numbers for a clutch of videos of "Yma o hyd", the unofficial anthem of the Welsh national football team, I quickly get to nearly 7 million.)

Welsh-language popular music is like an underground movement in Wales. Right now, in February 2024 I'd say that Dafydd Iwan's "Yma o Hyd" is probably the most popular Cymraeg song, though maybe not reflected on Spotify. Of all Cymraeg popular music, however, songs like "Sosban Fach" have been performed and recorded by so many people in so many iterations that I'd be very surprised if it's not actually the most popular. But I suppose we'll never really know. If you went out into the streets of Wales and conducted a survey asking people what their favourite Welsh-language song is I suspect "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" (the Welsh national anthem) would come out on-top.

I should also add that "Yma o Hyd" is more the unofficial anthem of the Welsh football fans rather than the team. Kinda how "Hymns and Arias" is the unofficial anthem of the Welsh rugby fans. "Yma o Hyd" is also adding fuel to the Welsh independence movement, which in turn is making the song more popular. It's been in-and-out of the public consciousness since it was released, becoming popular whenever something anti-Westminster happens in Wales.

There should be a lot more Eurovision on this list than just Joker Out lol. I know for a fact there are ESC songs in Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish and Ukrainian with more Spotify streams than the ones mentioned in this post. I don't know if they're the most streamed, but certainly more.

Why did Vlad edit the title and contents of this thread and today for that matter?

malloc wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 9:01 am Why did Vlad edit the title and contents of this thread and today for that matter?

anti-music sentiment? *shrugs*