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The 10 most played songs of the 20th century in the US

It is no coincidence that all song on here are ancient.

"The data itself comes from BMI, “a performing rights organisation that represents more than 250,000 songwriters, composers and publishers with a repertoire of more than 3 million songs and compositions from around the world and in all genres of music.” This organisation monitors TV and radio output to amass relevant information on song usage and protect artists’ rights and royalty entitlements. They claim that You’ve Lost That Loving Feelin” was played more than eight million times, which equates to 45 years of back-to-back play… and a sweet fortune for all those involved with it."

and then reality

2022 also continued the growth of streaming as the dominant way UK music fans consume their favourite songs and artists. The BPI calculates that more than 3 billion audio streams were generated on average every week in 2022, compared to around 1.3 billion each week five years earlier.

The UK’s audio streaming market has grown to meet this demand - more doubling from 68.1 billion to 159.3 billion audio streams and was last year over 40 times bigger than in 2012 (3.7bn audio streams). It now takes, on average, 1.3 million audio streams to break into the Official Singles Chart Top 40 and a combined 7 million audio and video streams to land a UK Number 1 single.

Downloads and streaming are massive and completely missing from the BMI metrics.
 
tombanjo said:
Downloads and streaming are massive and completely missing from the BMI metrics.
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Streaming wasn't a particularly big deal in the 20th century. Most people weren't on the internet (look up "the eternal September"). And those who were mostly used dial-up -- which meant it could take hours to download a full CD worth of songs.

The most-played song of the 20th century? Happy Birthday. There isn't even a close second. It was played thousands of times each day, every single day of the 20th century.
 
Simon and Garfunkel is the most recent and is from 1968. Over 50 years old. To keep it 20th C, Celine Dion

32 million copies

Falling into You remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, with sales of more than 32 million copies worldwide, became the best-selling album of 1996 globally and the fourth best-selling album by a woman in history.

Seems to me that 32 million is a higher number than 8 million.

There are a lot of "classic" songs. Not that any of the songs on the list are terrible, it is that the idea they are the "most played" is a bit sus.
 
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