Without these 11 new releases from The Weekend on Spotify’s global chart, the week-on-week stream-count would have fallen by 9.1% to 1.705bn – the smallest of the year so far.Īt this point, it’s worth reminding you: this data is strictly of Spotify’s Top 200 weekly tracks, and so offers us a useful indication of how the biggest hits are performing on the platform.

(The arrival of the 14-track After Hours LP was preceded by the release of three tracks from the record – Blinding Lights, the album’s title track and Heartless.) However, some 171.29m of these chart eligible streams came via 11 previously-unreleased tracks from The Weeknd’s After Hours album. That global stream count in the last chart week (1.876bn) was up by 54m streams on the prior chart week (Friday, March 13 to Thursday, March 19). (All data here and below pulled from Spotif圜 and analyzed by MBW.)

The bad news: Italy – which, remember, was placed on Government-mandated lockdown on March 9 – posted its lowest Spotify Top 200 stream-count of 2020 last week, with 91.7 million plays in the seven days.

The not-so-good news: This small upturn was still the third lowest stream-count of 2020 so far, despite the blockbuster release of The Weeknd’s After Hours album (pictured) on March 20.The good news: Cumulative global streams of Spotify’s Top 200 tracks in the last chart week (Fri, March 20 – Thurs March 26) actually increased by 3.0% week-on-week.

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