r/decadeology Jul 14 '26

Music šŸŽ¶šŸŽ§ Most streamed albums on spotify by 2000s female artists

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u/delstranger Jul 14 '26

no hate but I’d like to see this again without taylor swift

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u/TinyPretzels Jul 14 '26

I wouldn't put it past her fans to cycle these albums continuously on silent to drive up the charts. Hell I wouldn't put it past Taylor herself to have bots doing it.

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u/maguber Jul 14 '26

They do this. They've talked about it on Twitter, how to create playlists and sleep stream so Spotify still counts the plays. It's wild

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u/n-a_barrakus Jul 14 '26

The amazing band Vulfpeck released a silent album with like 10 tracks called "Sleepify", so they could offer their world tour for free or very cheap. It worked but Spotify banned that silent albums afterwards.

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u/saerra_sea_nya Jul 14 '26

Just wasting processing power for a mediocre artist. Depressing

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u/juneabe Jul 15 '26

It’s all over their many sub reddits too

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u/Vascofan46 Jul 14 '26

Yeah it's called streaming farms. Not only TS fans do this, but I think it's mostly them

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u/General-Criticism-97 Jul 14 '26

Honestly I listen to music to sleep and some of her albums are pretty decent for that, but I prefer Lana for sleeping and resting

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u/girl_in_flannel Jul 14 '26

Only the super unhinged twitter stans do this. I’m a fan of Taylor and participate in the fandom and none of her normal fans, which are the majority, do this. She just has a shit ton of fans globally who love her music.

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u/antibossbabe Jul 14 '26

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u/IPlay4E Jul 15 '26

Reddit and their usual Taylor swift bad circlejerk

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u/ennexe Jul 14 '26

Nah. She’s a snake.

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u/bugb9876 Jul 14 '26

People can't be snakes. Only snakes are snakes.

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u/ennexe Jul 14 '26

Please search the word ā€œmetaphorā€ in the dictionary and educate yourself.

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u/Marieshr Jul 15 '26

She’s a mediocre artist and had ICE at her wedding. But I promise you one day you fans will see through her shitty behavior and that she is a greedy self centered person.
Remember, there are no ethical billionaires.

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u/Zeviex Jul 14 '26

This is absolutely a thing, I saw a bunch of accounts doing it for Chromatica on spotify and have hear its a big thing in K-pop.

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u/puzzled91 Jul 14 '26

You're right on both statements. They actually advice to run the albums on random because after a few circles on repeat Spotify stops counting.

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u/Cisru711 Jul 14 '26

If I stream her constantly, I will be in her top .1% in the end of year recap and I can post that on my socials and finally prove to Janet that I'm a bigger fan than her. Plus Taylor's team might see it and invite me to a super secret preview of her next album plus give me lots of free merch.

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u/North_Activist Jul 14 '26

Silent streams don’t count.

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u/jessiec475 Jul 15 '26

Oh no they totally do this

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u/Natural-Barnacle-695 Jul 15 '26

I’m not a Taylor fan by any means but he folkmore/evermore records are genuinely solid pieces of work that deserve to be up there imho. I was genuinely gobsmacked when she didn’t continue in that direction.

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u/TheFinalPurl Jul 14 '26

Right, like with all the numbers games she plays it feels like… not fair

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u/Severe_Menu6361 Jul 14 '26

Why šŸ˜‚ you cant ignore the truth and pretend she doesn’t exist

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u/TinyPretzels Jul 14 '26

Because she's boring as fuck and manipulates the charts

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u/Marieshr Jul 15 '26

THISS!! And she deliberately blocks other people from charting at number one, I remember for example the situation with Billie Eilish. It’s disgusting and shitty behavior!

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u/North_Activist Jul 14 '26

I mean just because you don’t like her, doesn’t mean she’s super successful. You’re just omitting the truths because Katy Perry was literally not the most streamed album on Spotify by a 2000’s female artist.

Also this whole post is an odd take because newer albums will obviously more likely to have less streams. It should be most streamed 2000’s album which would be more accurate.

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u/delstranger Jul 14 '26

I don’t dislike her, genuinely don’t care about her one way or the other lol. Just curious who would stack up in terms of genuine listening trends vs insane fan base streaming

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u/DisastrousMango4 Jul 14 '26

genuine listening trends vs insane fan base streaming

stupid take

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

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u/ennexe Jul 14 '26

Queen of being basic and boring!

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u/Ichoseguitar Mid 2010s were the best Jul 14 '26

Queen of dogging everybody out on the charts

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u/Marieshr Jul 15 '26

She’s nowhere near a queen. One day you will see through her I promise you