Is the popularity of Wasting Love fabricated?

[Ancient Marinator]

This kinda thing happens on Spotify a lot. If you look at Motorhead's most streamed songs, apart from Ace of Spades it's completely random. God Was Never on Your Side is a filler track from a minor album yet is one of their most streamed songs, way ahead of some of their hits and set staples. Their second most streamed song is a WWE intro.

Sometimes random stuff gets put into popular playlists and once it makes it into an artist's most played it can stay there through its own momentum.

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Why Tears of the Dragon and not Son of a Gun? That's much closer to Wasting Love.

This originates in that weird moment three years ago when I heard a bit of Dragon on the radio and I wasn't sure which of these three it was. It's mainly because of the chorus, call me earless, but I really don't hear enough of a difference in that regard.

 

[Abas]

Their second most streamed song is a WWE intro.

Ooo I can tell more about this!

The Game by Motörhead has been associated with WWE and Triple H for almost 25 years or so. Even before it was released as a bonus track for Motörhead's album Hammered in 2002, it had been performed live at WrestleMania 17 back in 2001.

He has a secondary theme song too since 2006 by Motörhead called King of Kings. This one was however not released in any of Motörhead's releases at all, though it was released in a compilation album från WWE. As time went on, he used The Game as an entrance theme as Triple H the wrestler, but King of Kings as Triple H the authority figure.

Some 30M views combined between the two YouTube clips above.

Won't derail too much and will finish the TED Talk above by looping it back to the topic: At least this can be attributed to it being more of a soundtrack than "proper songs", so to say - which still is more than Wasting Love.

 

[Brigantium]

Outside of Spotify stats, isn't Wasting Love the complete opposite of popular?