Then to get the Monthly Listeners (ML), the blog mentions the Spotify for Artist page. This hack doesn't seem to be working anymore as I don't necessarily get ranked result when I try with my own auth Token. This repo uses the Search endpoint with just a data range as the main query parameter (here: year:2000-2014) and creates a database of Most followed artists with their corresponding Spotify ID. These genres would probably need to be re-classified according to your needs. The Spotify Web API Artists endpoint gives you the genres of an artist (and their number of followers) so if you get Artists charts from another source (with their Spotify ID), you could potentially extract each artist genres and re-rank the Artists within each genre. Chartmetric, the company that wrote the blog has probably a scraping algorithm that they will not disclose as it is their business model to sell these stats. Getting charts directly from the official Spotify Web API is not possible. We collected MLs data for the Top 100 artists of each genre, ranked by Where weeks is a list of strings containing the filename of the file to be downloaded in the request (previously generated with another code, omitting it for sake of clarity), for example:. Print('error with the following file:'+str(csv_url)) States = Ĭsv_url = ''+state+'/weekly/'+week+'/download'
#TOP SPOTIFY ARTISTS CODE#
This is the code I used to download the top 200 weekly, but it's no use for my goal: import requests Is there a way to retrieve the top 100 artist by genre in a given period? I've been looking around the Spotify API and Spotify available datasets, but I can't find a solution to achieve my goal. For example, they're able to retrieve the top 100 artist by genre. I would like to emulate what they're doing in the article. I read this article: Spotify genre trends during pandemic which is pretty interesting. I also managed to use those top 200 to retrieve each song and extract features, release date ecc. So far I downloaded the top 200 weekly and grouped it by states with a simple script, you can finde the data here: Full list below.I'm doing a university project on Data Analysis, in particular, I'm trying to analyze the behavior of listeners on Spotify before and during the pandemic. Among legacy artists, leaders are no other than Queen. The most listened to group belongs to South Korean heroes BTS. Bad Bunny leads among Latin acts, while the top female singer is Ariana Grande. Most streamed artists on Spotify – ResultsĮxpectedly, the most streamed artist of all-time is Drake, followed by Ed Sheeran.
#TOP SPOTIFY ARTISTS MANUAL#
If an issue appears in spite of these controls, manual fixes will be performed. As soon as new daily data is in for an artist, this will be reflected in the overall ranking.Īs the Spotify database is tricky, we can’t guarantee you there won’t be occasional data glitches, even if we developed several controls to grant data consistency. In fact, numbers are continuously updated as you search for them. If you notice an omission, just use our streaming search tool to look for the related artist and if he scored enough streams he will automatically and instantly appear in this top. While the highest part of the list is comprehensive, as we go down artists may be missing. Streams achieved thanks to songs listed below the Appears on section on Spotify do not impact the overall ranking and these milestones statistics, they are still shown inside the column “Featured streams”. The number of tracks available and over several milestones are based on lead songs only. They are combined together and defined as “Lead streams”. This ranking presents the top Spotify artists based on streams from tracks available inside their personal page’s sections Albums, Singles and Compilations. Most streamed artists on Spotify – Methodology