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i wonder what Maroon 5's numbers would look like if they factored in the number of people that hear them in grocery stores

Please keep in mind a lot of stores and supermarkets use Spotify for their music so I bet a lot of it is just like Safeway playing Maroon 5 and shit.

To explain a little bit of the Arctic Monkeys popularity on Spotify, their album AM charted really high in a lot of countries when it first came out in 2013 and to this day a lot of their most streamed songs come from that album. Why exactly that is, I'm not entirely sure. But the numbers don't lie.

As a Twitch member for the channel, I can’t stress how fun this stream is on a stream-by-stream basis. Y’all should check it out at least once. It’s legitimately an S tier stream.

Crazy how punk rock and metal heads live in their own little bubble

I bet a good majority of those Spotify listeners for Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons are for the background noise at dentist offices, car dealerships, Walmarts, etc

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People underestimate how big Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons are. The dragons just had a top 10 hot 100 song last year with Enemy, and M5 just had 2 massive hits in 2021 with Memories and Beautiful Mistakes. They know how to make those Ed Sheeran fans go crazy in the moshpit.

That video was, surprisingly, hella fun! I'd love to see more of that kind of content a few times more! Good vid

hell yes! definitely would love to see this again. 100% correct about 311 excellent musicians. i thought of so many watching this, michael jackson vs the beatles, minor threat vs fugazi, nirvana vs foo fighters, limp bizkit vs korn, biggie vs tupac, three 6 mafia vs wu tang, sepultura vs soulfly, blink 182 vs mgk, bts vs blackpink, madball vs agnostic front, saves the day vs thursday, asap rocky vs kendrick lamar, cannibal corpse vs morbid angel, slipknot vs pantera

I'm going on record to say that half those imagine dragons plays are my step son...pray for my ears

I enjoyed watching this video a lot. I hope there will be other ones like this. :)

The problem with going by Spotify metrics is that you can't accurately gauge anything that existed before Spotify. You could have one of the biggest songs of 1991, but only 2 million plays because Spotify wouldn't exist for another 20 years.

I went to an ava max gig last week, and she definitely has a very mainstream audience, so not surprised she has good numbers, but that was higher than I would have thought.

There is a definite age/ technology acceptance bias that kicks in if you use Spotify to determine how popular a band is. I listen to a lot of music, but very little, if any is streamed. By contrast, my 18 year old listens to a lot of music also, but almost all of his listening is through streaming. Another factor to consider, which Finn pointed out also, is the power of the mega hit song. Many of the highest Spotify listened artists have high numbers because a large group (for example, teenaged boys and girls) will listen to their new favorite song on repeat, pumping numbers. Spotify is this generations radio, where the young thrive the the older generation is referenced but rarely listened to.

I am one of the 60 million listening to Imagine Dragons constantly, they were my first major concert and I'll love them til I die no matter how much trash they get on the internet

Very nice video. Would love to see more of this.

please do this again it was really fun

As a die-hard 311 fan, I was expecting Incubus to have more numbers for the exact reasons you mentioned.

Korn vs limp Bizkit would've been a good one.

Whoever suggested Green Day vs Offspring wanted to start a fight 😂

You should do a one hit wonder song spotify challenge as well. I think thatll be fun. Putting two one hit wonder songs against each other.

I guess Turnstile, the Chilis and Metallica fans tend to buy more albums than listeners of Imagine Dragons and Maroon5. Also, the former 3 probably have more dedicated fans while the latter two have more "sometimes" listeners who just put on the hits on Spotify.

This video was hilarious all throughout. Loved this a lot

It just show how us older folks are disconnected about what we perceived is popular and what reality is.

Great video

I just learned the other day that Wish You Were Here by Neck Deep is like a proper hit in Indonesia! Hence why the streams are so high :)

I'm not surprised about Artic Monkeys my 13 year old plays 505 On repeat probably was big on tiktok

Do more of these

This was fun dude, good idea. I'd like to see like a heavyweight champ edition next round - garth brooks vs Michael Jackson, Beyonce vs Rihanna, stuff like that

Japanese people still buy albums, the audience for Japanese-language music is just smaller overall, and the older people basically don't stream. There are Japanese legacy bands that sell out stadium tours and barely break maybe 150,000 monthly Spotify listeners because of this (X Japan is around 290,000 because of their largely boomer fanbase and most of their contemporaries are even lower). Bands and musicians that are more popular among a younger fanbase do a bit better, but the most streamed Japanese band/musician on Spotify currently is YOASOBI with about 8.2 million monthly listeners. Breaking a million monthly listeners on Spotify is huge for a Japanese artist.

It's not about how many listeners they have. It's how many different people like that band. I like a lot on Spotify but I don't listen to Music on Spotify

What a fun episode! I love this game!

Definitely do more of these!

You underestimated the amount of normies that listens to Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons. And monthly listeners mean the amount for the last 28 days, not every month.

Definitely do this video idea again

Numbers are weird but I kinda feel proud having 1/20 of Turnstiles success on Spotify. Would have thought they have more, you are right!

Maroon 5's large numbers primarily stem from playlists among corporate America. And half of RHCP's audience still buy CD's.

Yes this was fun! Continue!

Rock bands just can’t compete streaming wise to pop artists and it’s always been like that. Linkin Park is the most popular non pop rock, rock band on Spotify and they’re at 49th most popular

This was a really fun video 🎉

I was actually shocked at how many streams it takes to equal one album sold. Like Metallica‘s new album had between 15.5 and 16 million people listen to the album on Spotify but that only equals like 12,000 units? What’s even more impressive about that is there albums sold just under 150,000 and only 12,000 of it was streaming so that means about 138,000 people went out and bought a physical copy of the new Metallica album

I continue watching every video on this channel just for the brief time Finn spends talking about his love for 311 once a year.

I was literally writing a comment about some bands are surprisingly huge because they have a surprise edge by getting on playlists, then you went at fucking said it at 11:40ish

Thanks for this escape Finn. Some surprising stats…❤

The reason why many of your predictions were off is because Mexico accounts for 1/12 of all the streams in the world. Therefore, you pretty much have to trend high in Mx to make good numbers. Have you checked the reguetton guys' numbers? Yeah, buddy, US is not the center of the world

311 fricken rulez

Imagine Dragons are the 17th most popular band on Spotify; Maroon 5 is 22nd

Streaming is still not universal enough for monthly listeners to be a meaningful data point. This was a fun segment, though. You should do it again.

lol I’m 22 and I’m a huge slayer fan! 🤘🏻😂 legendary for sure

Kept thinking Finn was going to plug some fishing equipment.

I was kinda surprised that Finn loves 311. I am also a fan. Catch em live sometime. If you aren't too keen on 311, their live show will almost absolutely change your mind. 😎

*band* vs *band* Finn: That’s A Good One

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I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. Thanks

> UK is not a big country > Neck Deep beats TSSF, Arctic Monkeys beats RHCP, BMTH beats Motionless 😂 That being said I'd put money on a good 75% of my listens on Spotify have been from American artists.

New Queens of the Stone Age song released!!!!!

I enjoyed this video a lot. I think there is something wonky about the Spotify algorithm. With that said, I think these videos should always have a really heavy hitter match-up. Like Adele vs Elton John for example.

Im surprised how off you are in some of these Finn 😂 crazy to see these stats though

“Rob Zombie fans either use a flip-phone or can’t afford Spotify” 😂😂😂😂

I think it's about time that we speak of how influential the OzzFest 10th anniversary DVD was

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I was wrong on every single one of them, and not even close. I suck at this game. Lol. But it was fun nonetheless.

"Slayer fans still use flip phones" I love you Finn :)

Mate loved this video, I wanna play right now but I think I’m gonna wait for the next installment. I did have to add this comment on the Computer as I can’t get KZfaq on my flip phone. Can I suggest My Chemical Romance versus Fall Out Boy. Gotta by MRC Or Guns N’ Roses versus Nirvana I’m going with GNR

Did you seriously dismiss the importance of the UK market that easily? It’s not the biggest country in population, but the influence the UK has in music is huge. It absolutely matters if a band makes it big there.

I think a lot of these giant artists, especially the older ones, have playlists to thank for a big chunk of their streaming success.

The beatles only have 30 million monthly users. That saddens me.

Big fan Metallica Babymetal and Green Day

Maroon 5’s monthly listeners are just all the wine moms in America, like mine

This has absolutely melted my brain 🤯 Puddle of mud being bigger than DragonForce did me in

Man.. I feel left out.. I don't use Spotify..

8:04 me but it’s really hard to not listen to the first 4 albums they’re just that good

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Why the reup? 👀

I'd like to see a Venn Diagram of listeners to see the overlap among these bands. Call it a Finn diagram.

COUNTRY MUSIC!!!!! I'm not a fan, but it's HUGE where I'm from, I'd love to see how it stacks up against the rest!

Someone really did perform Boulevard of Broken Dreams at my middle school graduation. What a moment in time man

That was fun. Would like to see more editions of this. I know someone who is a massive Rob Zombie fan, watching every one of his increasingly predictable films, but I doubt he has ever used Spotify. I'm shocked at the Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons numbers. Who are the people who stream them??

General consensus: less people listen to Spotify than you think.

What I learned from this stream: RHCP, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses might be big, but they’re not Arctic Monkeys level. They’re all small time compared to Almighty AM.

Finn should stay away from The Price is Right lol

I would argue that Puddle of Mudd had 3 hits

Finn, we made a game just like this on our website. Would love to see you play it in a video. :D

We do have Spotify in japan. We don’t hate the internet, or at least I don’t… plz don’t generalize like that Finn.

UK isn't big but is culturally leap years ahead of US, hence the numbers for tssf vs neck deep and arctic monkeys vs rhcp

This video makes me feel bad for not listening to music on Spotify. Every time I listen to my ripped music my listening habits go undocumented and my opinions are wasted...

Where’s the Jimmie’s Chicken Shack vs. Reel Big Fish?

Yay killers acknowledgement

I thought that Imagine Dragons was hated by everyone. They must all be closeted listeners. I bet the same is probably true for Nickelback.

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TSSF haven't put out any music in over 5 years. Neck deep has put out am album and 2 singles in the same time. Of course their plays would be higher

I was way off on most of these. I thought Metallica and RHCP would have a lot more from all the touring and having been around for so long and figured Maroon 5, Arctic Monkeys, and Imagine Dragons would be huge but not those types of numbers.

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This was fun video! Perfect for my morning commute. Keep this up.

And this is without counting Apple Music which is another billion ppl lol. As much as sales fluctuate. Music will never fall.

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there is an website that made u choose who has more listeners between 2 bands

Zeke! Whaddaya mean they dont have more plays than Maroon 5? Blasphemy!