Iron Maiden Spotify Statistics

Sad thing is out of all of those millions of streams the band made $1.23 so I guess they can just cancel the next album and live off that.
 
I’d say a sample size that begins in the mid- six figures and escalates into nine figures is unquestionably useful and relevant. Our polls don’t even hit three figures.
 
The Flash said:
Eh. It was one of the very first songs I heard when I had just started listening to Iron Maiden and I was just picking the most downloaded songs on LimeWire. The song also has a huge view count on YouTube.
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That's interesting, I checked a few videos there on the maiden YouTube channel, and it has much more views than can I play with madness which has a better video and was an actual hit.

Could wasting love have become an internet era slow burning hit? I still think some algorithms are skewing things because surely some of this hype would have registered in the real world, e.g. fans calling for it at gigs
 
:lol::lol::lol:

The shit studio version of Fear of the Dark has 100 times the number of the definitive A Real Live One version
 
Black Wizard said:
What is the most popular streaming service? I'd assumed it was Spotify since it was the trailblazer.
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YouTube. It's not strictly for streaming but it is the main source of music for a lot of people and is worth counting. Also, I think Apple Music eclipsed Spotify in at least the US last year.

It would be interesting to see this data compiled from other sites. As other people are talking about already, we can look at the most popular Maiden songs on YouTube as well.

mckindog said:
I’d say a sample size that begins in the mid- six figures and escalates into nine figures is unquestionably useful and relevant. Our polls don’t even hit three figures.
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It's relevant sure, but my point was more to whether it could be treated as a definitive set of data for a song's popularity. Also not necessarily suggesting that our polls are more relevant. That said, they kinda have opposite problems. Our polls are extremely biased due to a small sample of hardcore fans. The spotify data, on the other hand, is way too large and gives no bias/demographic information.

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Mosh said:
YouTube. It's not strictly for streaming but it is the main source of music for a lot of people and is worth counting. Also, I think Apple Music eclipsed Spotify in at least the US last year.

It would be interesting to see this data compiled from other sites. As other people are talking about already, we can look at the most popular Maiden songs on YouTube as well.
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I think the main problem with YouTube data is some songs have multiple videos with lots of views. For example, The Trooper has one with 99mi and another one with 49mi. Hard to sum up all of them. But yeah, probably lots of songs have more plays there than on Spotify. I think @matic22 was the one who used to keep track of YouTube numbers.
 
Smither said:
I think the main problem with YouTube data is some songs have multiple videos with lots of views. For example, The Trooper has one with 99mi and another one with 49mi. Hard to sum up all of them. But yeah, probably lots of songs have more plays there than on Spotify. I think @matic22 was the one who used to keep track of YouTube numbers.
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Nah. Not really. Just mentioned them once or twice.
 
Smither said:
I think the main problem with YouTube data is some songs have multiple videos with lots of views. For example, The Trooper has one with 99mi and another one with 49mi. Hard to sum up all of them. But yeah, probably lots of songs have more plays there than on Spotify. I think @matic22 was the one who used to keep track of YouTube numbers.
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Also upload date. Some songs have an advantage for being uploaded back when YouTube started and still being online. Something like Speed of Light is disproportionately high on YouTube because it premiered there. There are a lot of variables that can't be kept track of.
 
Mosh said:
whether it could be treated as a definitive set of data for a song's popularity.
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Seems like quite a robust data set to me. I don’t have time to check it, but query whether Spotify streaming stats have been used in peer-reviewed studies. The “Wasting Love” thing is probably a bit skewed, and you might (maybe) do better trying to get data on searches for song titles, but I agree with mckindog, that this seems pretty definitive indicator of the relative popularity of each song among the general population. And I happen to think that RTTH, as overplayed as it is, is still a brilliant track.
 
I don’t think it’s definitive, just the most useful set of data I’ve seen. It would very interesting to cross reference with other platforms and see if many of the trends hold. I suspect they will.
 
More comments later but I took averages of each studio album. Would love to see someone take out the outliers and run the numbers again, or do the live albums.
Iron Maiden - 5,849,130.5
Killers - 3,976,827.5
Number of the Beast - 47,651,908.875
Piece of Mind - 23,110,836.777778
Powerslave - 18,958,901.875
Somewhere In Time - 11,694,106.25
Seventh Son - 8,605,261.5
No Prayer - 2,490,760.5
Fear of the Dark - 18,498,744.166667
X Factor - 1,419,964.9090909
Virtual XI - 2,094,429.25
Brave New World - 8,391,558.4
Dance of Death - 4,206,352.9090909
A Matter of Life and Death - 3,707,386
The Final Frontier - 3,229,492.4
The Book of Souls - 8,181,694.2727273
 
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Mosh said:
More comments later but I took averages of each studio album. Would love to see someone take out the outliers and run the numbers again, or do the live albums.
Iron Maiden - 5,849,130.5
Killers - 3,976,827.5
Number of the Beast - 4,7651,908.875
Piece of Mind - 2,3110,836.777778
Powerslave - 18,958,901.875
Somewhere In Time - 11,694,106.25
Seventh Son - 8,605,261.5
No Prayer - 2,490,760.5
Fear of the Dark - 18,498,744.166667
X Factor - 1,419,964.9090909
Virtual XI - 2,094,429.25
Brave New World - 8,391,558.4
Dance of Death - 4,206,352.9090909
A Matter of Life and Death - 3,707,386
The Final Frontier - 3,229,492.4
The Book of Souls - 8,181,694.2727273
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Very interesting! Though I think you missed a comma on TNOTB :bigsmile:
 
Mosh said:
More comments later but I took averages of each studio album. Would love to see someone take out the outliers and run the numbers again, or do the live albums.
Iron Maiden - 5,849,130.5
Killers - 3,976,827.5
Number of the Beast - 4,7651,908.875
Piece of Mind - 2,3110,836.777778
Powerslave - 18,958,901.875
Somewhere In Time - 11,694,106.25
Seventh Son - 8,605,261.5
No Prayer - 2,490,760.5
Fear of the Dark - 18,498,744.166667
X Factor - 1,419,964.9090909
Virtual XI - 2,094,429.25
Brave New World - 8,391,558.4
Dance of Death - 4,206,352.9090909
A Matter of Life and Death - 3,707,386
The Final Frontier - 3,229,492.4
The Book of Souls - 8,181,694.2727273
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I thought that was a shockingly low average for POM but realised there's a comma in the wrong place. :lol:

Can't believe there is more people listening to VXI than TXF? Is the amount of tracks on TXF skewing it's average? By that reckoning what average would FOTD have it was only an 8-tracker like most of the 80's albums?
What's the average of FOTD if you take out the title track?
 
As an example of how heavy the stats are skewed by playlists and algortihms, does anyone really believe that when a fan wants to listen to FOTD, they have chosen the studio version 142 Million times but any live version only a combined 24 million times?
 
Also, songs on LAD getting the same sort of numbers as filler tracks from the 90's? That has to be algorithms pushing up the numbers on the studio albums, because lets be realistic, the version of Powerslave from LAD is not only slightly more popular among Maiden fans than Hooks in You:lol:
 
Any mathematicians out there?

I wonder is there a better metric than averages. SSOASS seems to be performing poorly on averages, but all but one of it's tracks are above 5 Million plays which only the Number of the Beast can equal.

Numbers of tracks with more than 5 Million plays:
Iron Maiden: 5
Killers: 3
TNOTB: 7
POM: 4
Powerslave: 5
LAD: 1
SIT: 5
SSOASS: 7
ME: 0
NPFTD: 2
FOTD: 4
ARLO: 0
ARDO: 0
Donington: 0
TXF: 0
VXI: 0
BNW: 5
RIR: 1
DOD: 4
DOTR: 0
AMOLAD: 4
F66: 0
TFF: 2
EV: 2
TBOS: 8
TBOS LC: 0
 
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Just one for all the people demanding Maiden release DVDs left, right and centre, the view counts for The Book of Souls Live Chapter on Youtube are shocking considering it's only otherwise available as a shite itunes download.
 
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