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Fun, honest data visuals about music — every chart is sourced and reproducible, with the full data and code on GitHub. A Longo Co. project.

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Spotify Wrapped's Top Artist Hasn't Had the Top Song in 7 Years Straight

Since 2019, the artist crowned Spotify's Global Top Artist has never also owned that year's most-streamed song — ten years of Wrapped data, charted, plus what streaming's growth curve looked like along the way.

Four-panel chart: top artist streams by year colored by whether the same artist also had the top song, a ranked bar of Wrapped crown wins by artist, the top song's streams by year, and a growth-since-2016 comparison of top artist streams, top song streams, and Spotify's user base
Personal Listening Data

Spotify Wrapped's Top Artist Hasn't Had the Top Song in 7 Years Straight

Since 2019, no one has topped Spotify Wrapped's Global Top Artist and Global Top Song lists in the same year. Ten years of Wrapped data, charted, plus what streaming's growth curve looked like along the way.

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Two-panel chart: a ranked bar chart comparing Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso's Tiny Desk views against 19 other landmark Tiny Desk concerts, and a line chart showing the growth of their view count over the 16 months since release
Streaming & Charts

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso's Tiny Desk Went From 3,000 Daily Streams to One of NPR's Most-Watched Videos Ever

Ranked against 19 other landmark Tiny Desks, plus the bumpy 16-month growth curve behind an estimated 51 million views.

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Five-panel chart showing Billboard Hot 100 number-one turnover declining then partially rebounding from 1958 to 2026, reign-length composition by decade, every individual reign as a scatter plot, and the ten longest number-one reigns ever
Music History & Legacy

The Slow Death of Chart Turnover: Why No. 1 Hits Stick Around So Much Longer Than They Used To

Billboard No. 1 turnover has roughly halved since the 1970s — but the 2020s show a rebound driven by a new "barbell" of one-week flukes and months-long mega-hits.

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Two-panel chart: one-hit wonders crowned per year 1970-2019 with a 1980-85 gap noted, and the distribution of where their one hit peaked on the Billboard Hot 100
Music History & Legacy

How Rare Is a One-Hit Wonder, Really?

Five decades of Billboard one-hit wonders, charted — and just how many of them barely cracked the Hot 100 at all.

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Three charts: the year's #1 concert tour adjusted for inflation from 1987 to 2023, average gross per show by decade, and which artists topped the annual chart most often
Industry & Money

The Billion-Dollar Climb: How Touring's #1 Tour Grew 11x Since 1987

37 years of Billboard/Pollstar's "tour of the year," charted — plus who's won that title most often (hint: not Taylor Swift).

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Three charts: the longest-reigning single #1 songs on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart led by DTMF at 71 weeks, a career-relative comparison of Bad Bunny vs Enrique Iglesias, and all 44 of their combined #1 hits ranked
Streaming & Charts

DTMF Broke the Record — But Bad Bunny Got There Faster Than Anyone Ever Has

Bad Bunny hit 194 cumulative weeks at #1 in 7 years. Enrique Iglesias took 21 years to reach 189. All 44 of their #1 hits, charted.

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Chart comparing energy of original vs remix songs
Streaming & Charts

Do Club Remixes Actually Hit Harder?

A matched-pairs look at Spotify's energy score, original vs. remix, for the same songs.

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