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If anyone is wondering, the Bee Gees were born in Great Britain, but raised in Australia, and eventually moved back to Great Britain. That is why both flags are represented even though they are band of brothers. I had to look that up..
Yeah i think really they would be happy to be considered both, same with Fleetwood Mac & Foreigner as British/American. Both of AC/DC's front men have been British (or British born anyway) but they are definitely considered an Australian band overall. Cheers
@@busterblader6327 Is she dual nationality i thought she was just American? She surprisingly doesnt have any songs with this many streams though. Her highest was around 500 million or so from what i remember. Cheers
Its crazy that Queen somehow seem to just get bigger and bigger as time goes on, obviously the movie helped too in terms of the really new generation! Cheers
Thanks for compiling the data! The absence of huge names such as Prince, Madonna, David Bowie (the Queen duet aside), Pearl Jam, Duran Duran, Blondie is amazing to say the least..
That is actually pretty true lol, i think it regularly gets voted the greatest song ever too. Not for me, as great as it is and Queen are though! Cheers
I think it will be surpassed eventually since there are other songs on this list that gain more stream faster each day than Bohemian Rhapsody including a couple other Queen songs interestingly enough
🎉 I have listening to music since 1969. I didn't start streaming music until 2019. I remember alot of these songs and videos. Thanks for the musical memories. 👋🐻🤠 Retro Greetings from coastal Mississippi
Thank you. 1. Makes sense that there's so many more Rock songs represented than in Billboard's Top 200 singles of the 20th century. a. Many Rock songs were not released as physical singles. b. Before 2000, Rock stations always did better than Pop stations. c. Rock lovers bought the album, not the single.
Cheers Ray, yeah i also think new generations are keeping some of those big bands very successful in this regard, especially Queen! Almost seems like they are still getting even bigger somehow
@Media_Ranker Rage Against the Machine has the #98 position. The highest one of their songs that hit the Top 100 was only #69 for one week, not for the year, let alone the century. Streaming allows some to find great music. Still, in 2024, many don't even have clean water. 🥲
Definitely the biggest surprise with how many huge songs she has, i wouldnt be surprised if she has the most songs with over 100 million streams or something like that though. Cheers
With Or Without You I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Linger Zombie Red Red Wine Is This Love Three Little Birds Could You Be Loved Imagine Bohemian Rhapsody Hotel California A Horse With No Name Every Breath You Take Don't Go Breaking My Heart Rocket Man Under Pressure Another One Bites the Dust Last Christmas We Will Rock You Fly Me To the Moon Don't Speak Lovely Day Mambo No. 5 I'm Still Standing Brown Eyed Girl Girls Just Want To Have Fun House of the Rising Sun (Don't You) Forget About Me Can't Help Falling In Love Paint It Black Everybody Wants To Rule the World Song 2 Wannabe Stand By Me (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles Ain't No Sunshine Take It Easy ...Baby One More Time Don't Look Back In Anger Come Together In the Air Tonight More Than Words Start Me Up Jingle Bell Rock Careless Whisper It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Karma Chameleon Along the Watchtower Down Under Where Is My Wind? I Was Made For Lovin' You Bitter Sweet Symphony Africa Dancing In the Dark
Thanks! Yeah sadly in terms of singles sales (especially anything that claims to be global) there really isnt any reliably accurate stats from the previous century. Or at least not with public access, so streams are a good way to go.
only thing wrong was i had queen at 8 (well TBH queen 8 +1 with bowie) shocked that jacko only had 4 nice to see AC/DC and CCR well reped (no proud mary?)
Faith in humanity restored! I'm happy to see how most of these are good songs. A few mediocre ones here and there, but mostly good. Furthermore, good to see that there's not that many pop and hip hop songs that were popular briefly. Mostly classics within rock and other genres. As a Swede, I was surprised to see no Roxette or Europe though. I totally expected The Final Countdown to be top 20.
Thanks for watching! From what i remember It Must Have Been Love was very close actually and The Final Countdown just a bit further behind, they were both over 600m streams i think.
honestly pop music, hip hop & gangster rap pre 2005 was brilliant like theres been very few good artists in those genres lately but back then basically all of them were
@@justbread4570 Can't add much to that. I'm not familiar with those genres. I've heard pop of course and some hip hop. But just the famous songs. I would say though I'm under the impression that pop used to be better. Like in the 80s and 90s especially.
@@DanSmeed i firmly believe 80s & 90s pop was rly good it kinda died around 2010 its very generic now unfortunately, and we dont rly have big controversial names anymore, much like most music now too safe, too manufactured
@@justbread4570 Hasn't pop always been manufactured to a large extent though? Like artists not writing their own songs and everything being styled by record company employees. Everyone isn't like that. But if you compare to other genres there's certainly a greater number of musicians within for example rock and metal who write their own songs and so on.
Yeah as i was making it i kept thinking if i should go to further and further down, this was originally going to be a top 100. I could maybe do a part 2 and do 400-200 but then i would need to do that soon in case the numbers start overtaking songs on this video at the time of recording the stats. Cheers
"Every Breath You Take" by The Police was the #1 hit of '83 and from birth to after I turned 18 I lived in 83 County (Garfield County). 1983 was the Centennial of my hometown (Burwell, Nebraska) in 83 county (platted in 1883 - interestingly there is an old west tv series called 1883 that was released recently).
This list is missing Ahora Te Puedes Marchar by Luis Miguel. It's from the 80's and should be just below T.N.T. by AC/DC if these numbers are from 5 July 2024.
Yeah theres no german accent at all in his singing voice is there lol. Check out my 80 Huge songs people didnt know were by Brits video, some may surprise you there too. Cheers
- Spotify streaming numbers as of 5th July 2024 - Dates are the songs original release dates, all songs released before the end of 1999. - Total songs per nation will come to over 200 overall, just because of the ones that have dual nationalities - Foreigner, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac
Yeah i did think that, cause actually Bon Scott was born in England too, but they are both down as just Australian bands. Not dual nationality bands like the others that are British/American or British/Australian. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker What about America, they were formed in London and while all the members were of American descent, all were raised in England, one even born there. And when A Horse with no Name was released, the band were still based in England.
@@n1thmusic229 Yeah i guess they could be considered both, usually it will have american-british or british-american though and it doesnt for them, as individuals or the band itself. Maybe they just consider themselves American overall? Cheers
All time 200 would likely be made up of a lot of songs from 2010-present day, thats why ive spread it out with 20th Century, 2000s and then i will being 2010-2024. But after that i might do top 400 of all time or something. Cheers
I think for some of those older ones they either never made official videos or there just isnt a quality version available. So the artists official channel made animated videos for a couple of those Christmas songs and a couple of othse 60s songs too. Thanks for watching
Unless I missed them, there are a quite a few songs missing on that list that I thought would be on it. There were also a few artists that were either missing completely from that list, or they had fewer songs on thst list than I thought there would be e.g. The Beatles, Eminem, Madonna etc.
In terms of you know their spotify numbers and they should be, or just big songs you would expect? Yeah Madonna was the most surprising, not having one song but she did have some around the half a billion range, so close! Yeah i would have thought The Beatles would have had more too and Eminem was right at the end of the 90s when he started, check out my 2000s version of this, he is heavily featured. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker Oh well. I thought Eminem had at least another album pre 2000. "My name is" is one of his bigger tunes though. Obviously not popular enough to make the list.
@@jaysmith2858 Yeah his very first album didnt do much but The Slim Shady LP had My Name Is on it and that was released in 1999, it was very close i think. Somewhere around 600m streams from what i remember. Cheers
Yeah its a good mix of genres, still working out the best way to do (most likely Spotify) playlists for the videos on the channel but i will eventually. Thanks for watching
Estamos de acuerdo que las canciones de Michael Jackson merecen de estar mas arriba del top, merecen mas reproducciones Pd: grandes canciones en lo general del top
Oddly, the number one song played on RU-vid to date is Gotye-Somebody That I Use To Know, at 2.3 billion and the song is only 13 years old and Queen's song is almost 50 years old. Damn, where has the time gone? I don't feel old but at 66, I guess I am?
Yeah i think its likely more to do with the average of RU-vid users really. And then the fact a lot of younger people will love Bohemian Rhapsody but then maybe not think to search the video, like they would have for Gotye when it actually came out. Cheers
I don't know how this ranking is going?!! It doesn't include any song of modern talking..?!! Top song ever should include at least five songs of Modern Talking. Modern Talking is the best..
I hope these non english songs that were missing but with enough streams appears in some future new version or maybe in some video only for non English songs before 2010 (please not after 2010 because the songs are really awful with few exceptions).
Quite good ranking but where is David Bowie ? Ok, duet with Queen. Short for more than 40 years on top of modern music. Hey Jude, nobody hears that song, right ? Lou Reed ? Blondie ? No offense to the person that posted that video, but general taste is something we can talk about, because there is a lot of bands or singers out of this ranking.
No no this isnt a ranking lol this is spotify streaming numbers, this isnt personal taste. Bowie's solo song with the most streams is Starman with 519 million. Cheers
Actually David Bowie was never that popular in USA until 80s and the US is the biggest market for music. And his music is a little bit more experimental than your average pop song...but I'd bet that "Heroes" will eventually crack the top 200.