Spotify and monthly listeners

Queen currently have 18,2 million listeners a month. I have yet to find a band or artist who can match that. The closest I have found is the current artist Justin Bieber who has 17,6 million listeners a month. Other big bands I have checked:

The Beatles: 13,5 mill
Rolling Stones: 11,3 mill
U2: 8,9 mill
Abba: 5,7 mill
Metallica: 9,8 mill
Elton John: 10,7 mill
Bruce Springsteen: 6,7 mill
Elvis: 6,9 mill
Pink Floyd: 8,3 mill
One Direction: 9,7 mill

This surly tells something about Queens standing in 2018? And is there a band who tops Queen in this stat currently?

Spotify says Queen are 73rd in the world. That must be because big hits who disappears quite fast lifts artists to big number and than fades.

I checked the UK top 20 and Drake currently has a big hit and of course he has loads of monthly listenes( 56 mill) then for a while. Its not relevant to compare with artists who has a current hit because their montly listens will be artifically high.
Its amazing that Queen that Queen has over 18 millions after all these years.

Yeah - people who want to listen to Queen wouldn't generally stream them, but a fan of someone like Drake will do. That said, Drake's advertising has choked spotify.

Give Drake 2 years and he will have like 4 mill monthly listens on average. Robin Thicke, who had that enormous hit Blurred Lines, currently have 4.

"people who want to listen to Queen wouldn't generally stream them"

Sure about that? My impression is that physical playback is more or less dead. And that goes for the older people as well. But I could be wrong ;)

Hey, we both could be wrong!

If anybody is interested: I found a website that contains the 100 Artists, with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, updated every week. [url=https://rateyourmusic.com/list/NicklasWachter/spotify-top-100-artists-chart-06_july_2018/]URL[/url]

I'm not sure if it's 100% correct, but it shows Queen on spot 72. Therefor above Justin Biber, Adel, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Michael Jackson, just to name a few and all of those Artists, well maybe apart from MJ, are quite a lot more active in publishing new music. I also looked at the Artists above Queen and I can't find any band, which is older than them or even focuses on Rock music.
What does all of this say about Queen? What does it say about todays mainstream music?
Well, Queen are currently touring and have a movie coming up but still, being the 72dr most listened Artists 30 to 40 years after their prime time... That's not easy to achieve (:

I was disappointed that Brian's 2 solo albums were removed from Spotify last year. I haven't seen an explanation as to why considering his output with Kerry Ellis is on there. I very rarely put CD's on these days so it'd be nice to have them back on there.

I quit Spotify and am enjoying Google Play Music now. I wonder if there are stats for this service.

18 million listeners a month. That's about 10 pounds worth of royalties!

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

Yeah - people who want to listen to Queen wouldn't generally stream them, but a fan of someone like Drake will do. That said, Drake's advertising has choked spotify.[/QUOTE]

Many of my close friends like Queen. Pretty much all my friends - myself included - find Spotify much more convenient than CDs to pack our phones with our favorite music and listen on the car, on this bus, at work, while exercising etc.

You'll need to qualify that by a ballpark figure for your age

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

You'll need to qualify that by a ballpark figure for your age[/QUOTE]

All of us between mid 20s and early 30s. Mostly 2nd gen fans, who grew up with our parents listening to Queen.

I particularly used to buy their CDs and new DVDs in my teens, and I started collecting their records on vinyl too. But I can't remember the last time any of them (vinyl, CD or DVD) served any purpose other than look pretty on my shelf.

Good. That fits in nicely with what I'm saying. Queen don't have a young fanbase like Drake does - however, your squad is young so would listen like that.

I agree about the physical format too.