Above this ongoing documentation, I have a running total, which was started for the Spotify Weekly Global and U.S. Weekly Top 10 list both by way of links to Apple Numbers Spreadsheets and screen shots of those Apple Numbers Spreadsheets.

The latter exercise empirically verifies the validity of a theory of American Insularity in the Center (ACIC) - unless, unexpectedly, large numbers of non-Anglo-American artists and non-English-language songs start popping up on the Spotify Charts US Weekly Top 10. More broadly, the goal is to empirically document, across time, the comparative cultural and linguistic domination of American and English-language pop globally on Spotify and to illustrate the same thing in terms of pop music streaming on Spotify U.S. non-English language songs in the Spotify Global Weekly Top 10 and Spotify U.S. The comparative presence of English-language vs.The (lack of ) presence of non-Anglo-American pop artists appearing in the Spotify Global Weekly Top 10 and Spotify U.S.The primary aim is to chronicle the following => 2020 through May 2021 - and others focused on most popular albums - from June 2021 onward. That means the data on this page are somewhat disparate, with some of the tables below focused on most popular songs in a given week - from Sept.

Spotify changed its charting system in June 2021 and moved from charting the popularity of single songs to charting the popularity of entire albums. I started this with the Global and US Weekly Top 10 list for the week of 9-17-2020 and ended the 12-month once-a-month snapshot of most popular weekly songs and albums for the week of 8-19-2021. I sample one Global and US weekly Top 10 list from each month. I used this once-a-month sample of these weekly lists to survey them for the (lack of) presence of albums and/or songs sung in languages other than English. This page tracked the Spotify Charts Weekly Top 10 Streamed songs or albums for the World and for the United States on a once-a-month basis from September 2020 through September 2021.

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