
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.
