Blinding Lights - The Weeknd Streams: 3.339 Released 29 November 2019 2. “I pretty much developed a relationship with the noise,” Mx. Top 10 Most Streamed Songs on Spotify Here are the best of the best: most-listened to songs on Spotify. With the pandemic expected to endure, at least in some countries, well into 2021, a few savvy subscribers are using a workaround to ensure that next year’s recap is a little less grim.ĭylan River Lopez, a 29-year-old video editor who uses non-gendered pronouns, has relied throughout the pandemic on a track called “Brown Noise - 90 Minutes” to drown out many distractions, including their partner’s phone calls in a newly shared office and nighttime restlessness similar to Ms. Ripollés said.īut not everyone wants to have the darkness of this year reflected back at them. “People realizing from their Spotify Wrapped that they were listening to a lot more background music to cope with the pandemic fits with what we saw,” Dr. Of 43 activities mentioned in a survey the team conducted, like cooking, prayer, exercise and sex, listening to or playing music had one of the biggest increases in engagement during lockdown, as well as the highest number of respondents who said it was the activity that helped them the most. Pablo Ripollés, a professor at New York University who studies music and the brain, was part of an international team of researchers that surveyed lockdown habits in Italy, Spain and the United States. The findings of some forthcoming research about pandemic coping mechanisms suggest ambient listening may be part of a larger pattern. Montoya, she found the results both sad and funny. “Even though I listen to them a lot, I was still caught off guard,” she said, noting that Harry Styles and David Bowie typically dominate her list. When her Spotify roundup arrived, nine of her top 10 tracks were rain sounds.
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