spidereater t1_j7k929j wrote on February 7, 2023 at 12:08 PM

Reply to comment by trappednjohnlockhell in [OC] Spotify Streams by Every Song Nominated for "Song of the Year" At The 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards by dvd5671

But one might expect that people would want to listen to an excellent song. The fact that the winning song had about 1% of the listens of the next most popular song in the list and the most popular song had almost 2000x more listens suggests there might be a disconnect between the people voting and the general public. Especially on Spotify where everyone had access to every song. You don’t need to buy an album or listen to a certain station.

trappednjohnlockhell t1_j7kwklp wrote on February 7, 2023 at 3:24 PM

But the people voting are forced to listen to the song because they have to evaluate it, the public isn’t. People tend to listen to the artists they know and love on repeat. Bonnie Raitt, while a legend, is mainly going to be popular with an older crowd, many of whom probably do not use Spotify or if they do they listen to playlists that they’re children or grandchildren helped them put together, so they may not have even been aware that she put out a new song. And I mean, there’s plenty of beautifully written songs out there that fly under the public’s radar everyday. It just so happens that this time, one of them managed to win a major award despite that.