Most-Played Songs on Spotify

Got 8, feel OK about it. Should have gotten Bruna Mars and probably would have if it was earlier on the list, but by that point I was like 'never heard it ... never heard it ... never heard it' and not focusing properly.

I am in the "never heard never heard who?" category as well.

isnt it gotye? that is what I thought they were called anyway, but I could be way off the mark.. (like gotcha but different, goiter makes me think of whole different things a lot less pleasant..)

and Carly Rae Jepsen :D

I got 6, and really haven't heard of any of the others.

SO easy 2:20 left

3:16

same here

Seeing as there was no Spotify in the 1960s that would probably be an easy quiz indeed.

+1

Cranbeckh said "a" test, not "this" test and I'm with them. I don't even know what Spotify is, and Bieber, Adele, Maroon 5 and John Legend are the only ones I'd ever heard of from this list. I'm guessing Legend's song is not Sinatra's All of Me that I remember. This was definitely a learning quiz for me.

I assumed he meant a test on the most played songs on Spotify in the 60s.

Could you accept Sia for Titanium since she's the one who actually sang the song?

I'm somewhat surprised people actually seek this crap out, and aren't simply subjected to it via the radio. Seriously, "Mumford and Sons meets cheesy festival EDM" is my generation's favorite song?

3/28 I don't know any of these people. I have a unique taste in music.

Got 'em all, but Caerley Reae Jeapsean was surely hard to spell :)

... wow.

So many snobs in the comments. So what if you don't listen to these songs. It doesn't mean they're bad just because YOU don't like them. Get over yourself.

I'm never on Spotify, so this quiz was definitely interesting. :)

Maybe many of them are bad because the singers are merely models for a dumped-down mass product than creators of their own musique with a unique style. Not playing an instrument or not writing your own lyrics is an evidence for that.

*music

Several of these are DJ's too, with guess singers that I've never heard of

Many artist of the modern era can play multiple instruments, know how to work modern technology (such as synths and sampling) to make music interesting and fruitful. Many mainstream artists can be boring or bad, however many artists in the modern day are creative, distinct, and interesting. Just because you may have rose-tinted glasses on the past doesn't make it better.

That being said, opinions are opinions, just try to look at modern music with objectivity, rather than disgust.

(By the way this is coming from a standpoint of someone who also loves 70s, 80s, and 90s music)

Also, about writing their own lyrics, that's not a recent thing. People have gotten writers for their music for ages. Have a great day! :D

People are allowed to have their opinions. They're even allowed to voice them, whether you share those opinions or not.

Should also add Ke$ha for Timber...she is a big part of the song.

Rather Be and Hall of Fame are the best songs in the world and you should really listen to them. Looking them up is cheating. I got 28/28 and i didn't cheat

Spotify just hasn't existed long enough for this quiz to be meaningful. Most played songs of the past 13.5 months might be a more accurate description.

13,5 months? what are you on about. It has been around since 2008!

edit: interestingly, that is currently about 135 months !

Eh. I like Imagine Dragon's other songs better than these. I feel those two songs don't showcase them well enough.

27/29. Only missed "prayer in c" and "waves." Good quiz!

Same

I weep for this generation.

No one wants or needs your pity. I'm sure your generation had absolutely no interest in anything mass-marketed when you were 13. No, you guys were all writing existential novels and sculpting, right?

I wasn't aware that your generation was busy listening to Vivaldi and reading Goethe... Oh wait, you weren't and you had almost as much filler and non-memorable crap charting as we do. Not all of the 70s and 80s was Queen and Bowie, you just don't listen to the bad stuff. We have plenty of pioneering and interesting music as you did, it just doesn't tend to chart that high.

Isn't Prayer in C by Robin Schulz? That was my first guess anyway, had no idea who Lilly Wood and the Prick are :L

Are there a disproportionate number of teenage girls using Spotify?

This list is a function of a hyperbolic increase in the use of Spotify over the last 5 years and the fact that it's used mainly by the millennial generation and younger. It has nothing to do with the quality of the music or its popularity amongst those of us too old or indifferent to use Spotify.

Thank God someone understands this.

How are you too old to use it? my mother is 72 and she loves it! I actually got it because she was so enthusiastic about it.. Otherwise I probably would have never tried it.

I agree it doesnt say much about the quality of music, but that has nothign to do with spotify (per see) it would be the same if it was radio or recordsales.

But as always teens tend to listen the most to music. So they are represented more than people from other ages groups, though I wouldnt underestimate the 20ers and 30ers which are more into discovering music than what if popular and "fed" to them. Spotify is a great place to discover music.

Man I really am old, thought I walk that

I listen music a lot, but Kate Perry was the only artist of these that I have ever even heard about. I also knew the song Take me to Church because very irritating advertise of it comes every time I listen to Spotify. And that song is probably the worst song I have heard in very long time.

People need to get over themselves. This list is not representative of what is considered "great music" today. It's representative of what tweens and young teens listen to, because they all use Spotify. Are you really that upset that 14-year-old girls like Meghan Trainor? That's such a problem for you? If you think your generation's music is king, I have news for you: classical musicians would look down their noses at you the same way you're looking down on this. What the Beatles did was a joke compared to Mozart's output (and I love the Beatles). So back off, and let kids enjoy something. They'll find better music as they get older, just like you did. People should be allowed to like what they want without feeling judged. There is plenty of good music out today, just like there was plenty of terrible music out when you were young.

And to further illustrate my point, here are some #1 singles from 1995: I Can Love You Like That, Another Night, Boombastic, Here Comes the Hot Stepper, Give It 2 You, Player's Anthem, I Got Five on It, Kiss From A Rose. From 1985: I Want to Know What Love Is, Say You Say Me, We Are the World, Can't Fight This Feeling, Sussudio, Miami Vice Theme (!!), We Built This City. From 1975: Mandy, Love Will Keep Us Together, Jive Talking, That's the Way I Like It, Lovin' You, Have You Never Been Mellow, Laughter in the Rain, Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song. What do these songs all have in common? They're lame as hell and have mostly been forgotten. Because cheesy, mass-marketed stuff has always been #1. So, to repeat, get over yourself. Your generation is no different or better than this one.

As much as I agree with many of your points, mainstream music even the mainstream alternative and rock I prefer is a far cry from the Chris Cornell, Nirvana, Blind Melon, Eddie Vedder masterclasses of the 90s. As much as I love some modern rock bands, rock has certainly lost a bit of its complexity with lyrics and meaning certainly I must say. I know I am generalizing but this is what I have seen and its hard to say there are modern day parallels to the grunge and alt rock gods of the 90s and early 2000s. I do agree that mainstream poppy hits are the same with each generation, the "hook" that Blues Traveler described. I am talking about the genres that don't hit the mainstream and how they've changed.

pop has always generally sucked. But there have been other genres that enjoyed mainstream success here and there that included a lot of very talented musicians. A lot of rock in the late 60s and 70s. Some punk and metal in the 80s. Alternative and grunge and industrial in the 90s. I don't know as much about contemporary music. In general I feel it's not as good. But, there is still some pretty mainstream stuff that is doing some interesting things. Sia and Adele are pretty good. Eminem has his moments of brilliance and is still putting out new stuff. There have always been non-mainstream genres that sucked, too. :-P I mean kids today have their Lo-Fi, but when I was in high school there was a resurgence of Ska and the innovation that was Nu Metal.

Anyway people like what they like and 90% of anything is crap but there's still the 10% if you go looking for it.

Myself has been gotten over.

I find your point about The Beatles and Mozart to be a bit strange. That's like comparing apples to oranges. Art as we define it today is not the same as art was in the 18th century. Listening to Mozart doesn't move me, but listening to the Beatles or Bob Dylan or Queen does. And while classical Western music lacked lyrics, lyrics are at the center of modern music. Lyricism is itself an art form, and can even be poetic.

Also, as a 21 year old, I just want to say that these songs don't reflect the tastes of all young people. I'm in love with '70s and '80s music, and rarely listen to post-2000 music. Many of my friends are the same, and this was true even back in high school. Not all young people listen to bad music. But even if they do, what does that matter? Music isn't the only way to judge a person's character. Just because people listen to shallow, stupid songs, doesn't mean they themselves are shallow and stupid.

I WEEP FOR MANKIND

and no i will not let people have their opinion

It's not about letting people have their opinions. It's about understanding what this list represents. It represents what 14-year-olds like. If you weep over that, then you really need more to do with your time.

Most of the younger generation use Spotify.

13/29 DAMN

I got 6 songs (only 4 artists). I feel like I'm really good at music trivia, but I guess I don't know new mainstream stuff. I probably would have gotten even less if I didn't teach teenagers. I learned a few from them.

Cool...three years later and got 11/32 this time. I know everyone cares.

Ugh. How is Cheerleader even popular.

Needs to be updated- One Direction's Drag Me Down is the most played song on Spotify now!

So, as of 22/09, What Do You Mean by Justin Bieber is the most streamed on Spotify, followed by Drag Me Down by One Direction. However, 1D's latest song, Infinity, has just been released onto Spotify, so perhaps that will change.

20/29

69% lol

Wake me up, hmm... Evanescence? Green Day? Nope. Darn.

Besides the year probably not matching I believe neither of them have a song called simply "Wake Me Up".

I put Wham: "Wake me up before you go-go..." A blast from the 80s I guess...

I'm 30 and got five right. and I'm okay with that.

I got four.

I spent almost all the quiz trying to remember OneRepublic. It was right on the tip of my tongue and I missed some other obvious ones because it was literally all I could think of.

Who here put "Evanescence" for Wake Me Up?

I didn't, considering the song is called "Bring Me to Life."

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Fairly happy to report that I got 0 out of 100 for this one. Times obviously change.

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one of the only quizzes i can get 100% on! Music of my generation! :)

most of these are just unbearable

Alan Walker is the best! ♡

Im Shocked Taylor Katy And Ari are not here

Have To Update It For Thank U Next God Is A Woman No Tears Left To Cry And Look What You Made Me Do

Now, 2 years later, Katy and Ariana are here, but since 1989 wasn't on spotify for 3 years, it never got that many streams and her other albums weren't popular enough.

I am sooo not in touch with popmusic haha I dont recognize ANY of the songs, only with take me to church I here a piece of a song in my head, and only I think because it has continuously been used in some commercial, whether it be spotify or on (m)tv. Because I remember only the same 3 seconds over and over, no idea about the rest of the song.

So I started guessing names you hear a lot about lately, I got sheeran, bieber, adele and rihanna ( and expected swift and grande) Then I was out of guesses haha.

Ow and all of me reminded me of an old jazz standard ! but figured that wasnt it. And actually, looking at the results, John legend is the only name I recognize ! ow and timberlake. The rest could ve been made up for all I know. No idea.

I miss OMI's songs.

I'm surprised Youngblood by 5 Seconds of Summer isn't on here. That song is on the radio all the time basically

All-time. Might be very popular now, but total overall streams takes a bit of time to accumulate. I love that Queen is on here BTW, makes me happy that at least _some_ decent music is still being listened to...

So I guess Slim Whitman isn't as popular as I thought.

Only got 16. I'll make an attempt to listen to all of these.

That's the spirit! I'm so tired of the, "popular music sucks today," and, "I scored 0 and I'm proud!" attitude. People really need to be more open-minded, especially on a website like Jetpunk that rewards broad cultural knowledge. One of the people on the list (Kendrick) got a Pulitzer for his music for God's sake!

Talking about me, this pop music is just so not my style. I even hear some famous new artists, but I guess most of them are not THAT famous. It amazes me how these songs can be most played songs and I have never heard them lolol

I'm so out of poopular music scene ...

I thought XO Tour Llif3 would be like #1, it's 3rd to last

I know some pop songs, but I just detest Spotify, so I don't feel too bad about it.

First quiz in which I feel proud of not doing well

The fact that damn James Arthur and Tonnes and I are here over Chris Brown, Kanye West, J. Cole, Adele etc... is all you need to know about Millennials smh

How is that bad? They are better than all of those besides Adele

Tones and I better than Kanye and J. Cole???

29. Interesting to see Uzi so low

People complaining about the results need to start listening to their "better" music on Spotify.

Otherise, the list won't change.

For someone that hasn't listened to any popular music since 2015 I think I did alright

I like a lot of these and absolutely despise some. 2006-2012 is the nostalgia era for me so I kind of wish more of that stuff was played

If anyone hates that Rockstar is at #2 then you can blame me, it'd probably be around #20 if they subtracted my listens from its total lol. Also, no Old Town Road?

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is the only actual good song here

Take Me To Church is a banger

7/38, all but one of them guessing names I've seen in headlines. 0 points :(

Got 15. Some I knew the artist bc of other jetpunk quizzes, some I just went guessing, but I never heard most of them. Lol fr which songs/artists are these?

I genuinely don't understand why Dance Monkey ranks so high. I've never met a single person who actually enjoys it, but it keeps showing up everywhere. Probably my least favorite pop song of the past decade.

I agree so much, her voice is so grating. Idk how to describe the song besides “ugly”. She sounds like she stepped on a lego that is inside a hot sandal left in the sun.

Despacito remix is Fonsi and Bieber. The original is Fonsi and DY

"Your point total remains at 0/5"

I got 22/38, which currently beats or equals 50.2% of test takers, but only got 1 point. That's not normal right?

I think it's fixed because now it says 2 points.

I mean ok boomer

This isn't music...its entertainment

So many of these I could hear so clearly in my head but I couldn't pull the artist's name out for the life of me :-(

Is this globally or just the US? Or do other countries use something other than Spotify?

ONE? have you been alive the last 10 years?

OMG! I consider myself music person and I got one: Queen Bohemian rhapsody. After reading full list I knew three other artists on this list. Sheeran, Bieber and Eilish, although I cant name any song for them. I'm history.

...i dont think you're a music person lol

All I Want For Christmas Is You should be here

By reading, the comments, you'd expect a lot of people to do super well or super poorly. Fascinatingly, as I just found out, the percentile by score chart is quite linear. I was very surprised to find that.

Here is the chart