Last Christmas eve, the Beatlemania dawned upon the music streaming scene. Since the the Beatle catalogue was released in music streaming service giant Spotify, the company has been monitoring listening behaviors in all of their songs to rank which songs are favored by the new generation of music listeners. According the latest stats, "Come Together" is on the top of the list a few hundred hits over "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude."
Aside from indivual streaming records, Spotify also showed stats that shows how the Beatles influenced and affected the users. Within two days after its release in Spotify, most Beatles songs were added to more than 675,000 playists by users all around the world.
It also seems that plan of educating the next generation of listeners with Beatles music through the online streaming medium turned out to be effective. According to Spotify stats, 65 percent of the the total number of streams are coming from users who are aged 34 and below.
The rankings by stream on individual Beatles seem to be very identical in the UK and the US except for the US listeners love for Paul McCartney's "Blackbird."
Here is the exact list of the rankings:
The Beatles Top 10 songs on Spotify, U.S. list
1. "Come Together"
2. "Hey Jude"
3. "Here Comes The Sun"
4. "Let It Be"
5. "Twist And Shout"
6. "Blackbird"
7. "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
8. "In My Life"
9. "She Loves You"
10. "Help!"
The Beatles Top 10 songs on Spotify, U.K. list
1. "Come Together"
2. "Hey Jude"
3. "Here Comes the Sun"
4. "Twist and Shout"
5. "Let It Be"
6. "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
7. "Help!"
8. "Love Me Do"
9. "I Feel Fine"
10. "She Loves You"
It seems Americans have developed an inclination the the McCartney written song. Most analyst interpret the song as a message about slavery and racism which hits a huge demographic comprised by the whole African American community along with other migrant minority groups in the US.
