Don't you think it's funny that there is always someone who is number 1 on the charts?
They continue to gravitate towards Rihanna and the likes because those are the ones that get more airtime and more promotion. It's still a big machine.
Spotify data shows what when people are free to play what they want, off chart music is actually more popular.
Music that is popular has much more to do with culture than with the skills or ingeniousness of the product or artist.
So no the article isn't totally wrong, your criteria is.
No it doesn't unless of course Spotify lies, but I agree it was easily misunderstood.
What I am saying is that the listeners on average listens to more off chart music than to popular music but by definition of course the chart music will be most popular because more people will listen to the same.
They continue to gravitate towards Rihanna and the likes because those are the ones that get more airtime and more promotion. It's still a big machine.
Spotify data shows what when people are free to play what they want, off chart music is actually more popular.
Music that is popular has much more to do with culture than with the skills or ingeniousness of the product or artist.
So no the article isn't totally wrong, your criteria is.