How Many Streams Is a T-Shirt Worth? Breaking Down Chart Dilemmas.

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There’s more data about music consumption than ever before. That doesn’t mean we understand who’s the most popular.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you are, I'm mad as hell because Spirit delayed my flight
0:07.1	of music news and criticism.
0:09.1	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:10.5	I got black, I got white, what you want?
0:13.0	Hop outside the ghost and hop up in a fan on.
0:15.0	I know I'm by the blow, oh, why you're down.
0:18.0	They try to take my floor, I take they up for ransom.
0:20.0	I know that I'm gone.
0:22.0	They see me blowing up, not they say they want some I got two
0:24.9	twink blocks turn you to a dancer I see two twin eyes leave him on a band on I
0:29.9	got two thick thighs when I like red I got blue what you want the shinal a
0:34.6	the ballizzi I got Louis in a guitar she know I got the finny product when I
0:38.4	hit along I needed me a dire rider I need me to one I started from the bottom you can see the west on you're listening to Ransom, that's Lil Tecca and Lil Tecca's braces.
0:50.0	And I have a question.
0:51.3	My question is, is Little Tecka's ransom the 13th most popular song in the country
0:57.2	or the 23rd most popular song in the country?
0:59.9	Or the ninth most popular song in the country? According to...
1:03.2	Apple Music?
1:04.2	I've never heard of that.
1:05.2	Spotify, I think it's like seven.
1:07.1	I've also never heard of that.
1:08.6	Here's my thing.
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