This page tracked the Spotify Charts Weekly Top 10 Streamed songs or albums for the World and for the United States on a once-a-month basis from September 2020 through September 2021. I used this once-a-month sample of these weekly lists to survey them for the (lack of) presence of albums and/or songs sung in languages other than English.
I sample one Global and US weekly Top 10 list from each month. I started this with the Global and US Weekly Top 10 list for the week of 9-17-2020 and ended the 12-month once-a-month snapshot of most popular weekly songs and albums for the week of 8-19-2021.
Spotify changed its charting system in June 2021 and moved from charting the popularity of single songs to charting the popularity of entire albums. That means the data on this page are somewhat disparate, with some of the tables below focused on most popular songs in a given week — from Sept. 2020 through May 2021 — and others focused on most popular albums — from June 2021 onward.
The primary aim is to chronicle the following ==>
- The (lack of ) presence of non-Anglo-American pop artists appearing in the Spotify Global Weekly Top 10 and Spotify U.S. Weekly Top 10.
- The comparative presence of English-language vs. non-English language songs in the Spotify Global Weekly Top 10 and Spotify U.S. Weekly Top 10.
[Last update =11-11-2021]
More broadly, the goal is to empirically document, across time, the comparative cultural and linguistic domination of American and English-language pop globally on Spotify and to illustrate the same thing in terms of pop music streaming on Spotify U.S. The latter exercise empirically verifies the validity of a theory of American Insularity in the Center (ACIC) — unless, unexpectedly, large numbers of non-Anglo-American artists and non-English-language songs start popping up on the Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10.
I document each Global and U.S. Weekly Top 10 list both by way of links to Apple Numbers Spreadsheets and screen shots of those Apple Numbers Spreadsheets. Above this ongoing documentation, I have a running total, which was started for the Spotify Weekly Global and U.S. Top 10 lists for Sept. 17, 2020.
One final note — Anglo-American here is used to refer primarily to the national and linguistic status of individual pop stars and is understood as INCLUDING all pop artists whose nationality is American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, etc. and for whom English is a dominant language regardless of whether these artists are Black, White, Asian-American, etc.:
Spotify U.S. Weekly Top 10, Running TOTALS ==>
[Started September 2020;
As of 8-19-21 ==> 120 total songs or albums from 12 separate US Top 10 weekly stream lists surveyed; ONE Top 10 weekly stream list surveyed per month]
Total Number of non-Anglo-American Artists (includes Puerto Rican Artists) = 5
Total Number of Songs or Albums in English Only* = 114 out of 120
Total Number of Songs or Albums in Spanish or English-Spanish Hybrid* = 6
Songs in non-English or non-Spanish language and/or Hybrid* = 0
* In terms of song-language data measurement, songs with multiple weekly appearances are counted AGAIN for EACH language for each week they appear. In short, the same song with the same title and sung by the same artist(s) often appears in multiple Top 10 Weekly Stream lists. In terms of my totals, that song is counted EACH time it appears. The same is true for albums.
Spotify U.S. Weekly Top 10 Apple Numbers Spreadsheet Data
[Started Week of 9-17-2020 — Surveyed once monthly]
September 2020 (9-17-20): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
October 2020 ( 10-8-20): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
November 2020 (11-5-20): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10 
December 2020 (12-3-20): Spotify Charts US WeeklyTop10 
January 2021(1-7-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
February 2021 (2-4-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
March 2021 (3-4-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
April 2021 (4-8-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
May 2021 (5-6-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
June 2021 (6-17-21): Spotify Charts US WeeklyTop 10
July 2021 (7-15-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
August 2021 (8-19-21): Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10
Spotify GLOBAL Weekly Top 10, Running TOTALS ==>
[Started September 2020;
As of 5-12-21 ==> 90 total songs from 9 separate Global Top 10 weekly stream lists surveyed; ONE Top 10 weekly stream list surveyed per month]
Total Number of non-Anglo-American Artists (includes Puerto Rican Artists) = 9
Total Number of Songs or Albums in English Only* = 71
Total Number of Songs or Albums in Spanish or English-Spanish Hybrid* = 18
Songs or a in non-English or non-Spanish language and/or hybrid* = 1
* In terms of song-language data measurement, songs with multiple weekly appearances are counted AGAIN for EACH language for each week they appear. In short, the same song with the same title and sung by the same artist(s) often appears in multiple Top 10 Weekly Stream lists. In terms of my totals, that song is counted EACH time it appears. The same is true for albums.
Spotify GLOBAL Weekly Top 10 Apple Numbers Spreadsheet Data
[Started Week of 9-17-2020]
September 2020 (9-17-20): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10 
October 2020 (10-8-20): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
November 2020 (11-5-20): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
December 2020 (12-3-20) Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
January 2021(1-3-21): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
February 2021 (2-4-21): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
March 2021 (3-4-21): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
April 2021 (4-1-21): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
May 2021 (5-6-21): Spotify Charts Global Weekly Top 10
Below are direct links to Spotify’s own Spotify Charts Weekly Top 10+ Streamed Songs ==>