Top Artists Around the World on Spotify

Introduction

I want to explore the question: “What artists appear most often in the top 10 across different countries?”

I will scrape data from https://kworb.net/spotify/ and collect daily top 10 rankings from several countries over a set period of time. My goal is to find out which artists are consistently popular around the world and see how artist rankings change by country.

I picked this topic because I think it’s interesting to see how music tastes are different depending on where you are. Some artists might be huge everywhere, while others might only be popular in one place. By comparing the top artists from different countries, I’m hoping to see who has global success and who is more local. It could also show how trends and cultures affect what people listen to.

Scrapping Execution

To answer the question of which artists are most popular across different countries on Spotify, I will scrape data from https://kworb.net/spotify/. This site provides daily and weekly charts of top-streamed songs by country, making it a good source for tracking artist popularity across regions.

I will collect the daily Top 10 rankings from several countries over a two-week period. This should give enough data to see which artists appear most often and how their popularity changes across countries.

The countries I chose are the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany and France. These countries have large Spotify audiences and a range of musical tastes, offering a broad view of global trends.

Analysis

Since every artist shows up 5 times, it means they are all equally popular in the dataset. The bars in the chart are all be the same height, showing that no artist was more popular than the others. This also means the top 10 artists in the graph are just the first ones listed with 5 appearances. It shows that these artists were liked pretty evenly across all the countries in the data, and no one artist was way more popular than the rest.

# A tibble: 11 × 2
   Artist                                       appearances
   <chr>                                              <int>
 1 Alex Warren - Ordinary                                 5
 2 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things                        5
 3 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER                     5
 4 Billie Eilish - WILDFLOWER                             5
 5 JENNIE - like JENNIE                                   5
 6 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra                                5
 7 Lady Gaga - Die With A Smile (w/ Bruno Mars)           5
 8 ROSÉ - APT. (w/ Bruno Mars)                            5
 9 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso                           5
10 Teddy Swims - Lose Control                             5
11 The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather                    5

The table shows 11 different songs and artists, and each one shows up 5 times in the dataset. That means each of these songs was popular in 5 different countries. No artist or song shows up more than the others, so no one really stands out as the most popular. This tells me that the music was pretty evenly spread out across countries. Some artists, like Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga, had more than one song on the list, but even those songs only appeared 5 times. Overall, it seems like people in different countries liked a mix of songs, not just one or two big hits.

The chart shows the total streams for the top 5 artists, and Jennie’s song “Like Jennie” has by far the most streams—almost three times as many as the second artist. This makes Jennie stand out a lot compared to the others. The other artists have a lot fewer streams, showing that Jennie’s song is really popular in this dataset. It seems like her song is getting way more attention or is being played more than the others. This could suggest that Jennie’s song has a stronger global interest, possibly because it’s getting more play or exposure in different countries.

Overall, Jennie is way ahead in terms of streams, and her song is the clear leader here, showing a big global reach compared to the others.

Sine the track count is the same for all countries in each rank (1-10), it means every country has about the same number of tracks in each rank. For example, if there are 10 tracks in the top 10, and each country gets one track in every rank, then no country is really standing out. This would mean that no one country is dominating the global charts, and instead, the popularity of songs is spread out more equally across countries.

This could show that the global music scene is pretty diverse, with artists from different countries getting similar levels of attention. It might also suggest that artists from all over the world have a fair chance of making it into the top ranks.

Conclusion

The dataset shows that the top artists have the same number of appearances, meaning popularity is spread fairly evenly across countries. No artist or song is more dominant than the others, and the top 10 are simply the first artists with 5 appearances. This suggests that music preferences are balanced across regions, with no single hit taking over the global charts.

However, when we look at total streams for the top 5 artists, Jennie’s song “Like Jennie” clearly stands out, with nearly three times the streams of the second artist. This indicates that Jennie’s song has a much stronger global presence.

Overall, while the chart shows a diverse and balanced global music scene, Jennie’s track leads in streams, reflecting its broader reach compared to the other top artists.