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]
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