Just for fun I entered whatever names came to mind - to get a feel of what kind of listener monthly totals these performers received.

Taylor, Swift (109.9 million)
Beatles (36,.4 million)
Carpenters (6.8 million)
Lang Lang (3.9 million)
Herbert von Karajan (3.2 million)
Leonard, Bernstein (1.8 million)
Mikhail Pletnev (1.9 million)
Martha, Argerich (1.4 million)
Vladimir Horowitz (1.1 million)
Yuja Wang (903.8 K)
Hillary Hahn (681K)
Jascha Heifetz (179K)
Konstantin Scherbakov (616.8 K)
Alicia de Larrocha (139.9 K)
Nathan Milstein (95.9 K)
Van Cliburn (88.9 K)
Maria, Callas (542.5 K)
Joan Sutherland (445.6 K)
Itzak, Perlman (2,000,000)
H.J. Lim (587)
E power Biggs (60.9 K)
Henryk Szeryng (92.6 K)

These are just random names that I thought of. It’s a little telling that is a name receeds into the past The popularity tends to fade. (probably no surprise)

Will be interesting, Mr. Gavin, to look several months henceforth at the cumulative monthly totals and compare, after the release of the Lenny and La divina biopics.

On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 8:18:40 AM UTC+11, JohnGavin wrote:
> Just for fun I entered whatever names came to mind - to get a feel of what kind of listener monthly totals these performers received.
>
> Taylor, Swift (109.9 million)
> Beatles (36,.4 million)
> Carpenters (6.8 million)
> Lang Lang (3.9 million)

As a matter of interest, John, I wonder if you could get the monthly totals for:

Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Sir Simon Rattle
Klaus Mäkelä
John Wilson

Many thanks in advance (I'm not a Spotify subscriber),

Andrew Clarke
Canberra

On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 10:36:27 PM UTC-5, Andrew Clarke wrote:
> On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 8:18:40 AM UTC+11, JohnGavin wrote:
> > Just for fun I entered whatever names came to mind - to get a feel of what kind of listener monthly totals these performers received.
> >
> > Taylor, Swift (109.9 million)
> > Beatles (36,.4 million)
> > Carpenters (6.8 million)
> > Lang Lang (3.9 million)
> As a matter of interest, John, I wonder if you could get the monthly totals for:
>
> Sir John Eliot Gardiner
> Sir Simon Rattle
> Klaus Mäkelä
> John Wilson
>
> Many thanks in advance (I'm not a Spotify subscriber),
>
> Andrew Clarke
> Canberra

Certainly Andrew

Sir John Eliot Gardner - 732.2K
Sir Simon Rattle - 1.9 Million
Klaus Mäkelä - 57.4K
John Wilson - 53.5K

On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 4:33:15 PM UTC-5, Oscar wrote:
> Will be interesting, Mr. Gavin, to look several months henceforth at the cumulative monthly totals and compare, after the release of the Lenny and La divina biopics.

The movie Amadeus did give Mozart a big boost in popularity.

Which actress will play Maria Callas?

On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 8:38:07 AM UTC-6, Andrew Clarke wrote:
> It seems that Sir Simon is a "go to" conductor, well known and you can't really go wrong with the man. Also, a sizeable discography. I anticipated that a lot of people might have listened to Mäkelä and Wilson on Spotify to see what all the fuss is about as these new and, rightly or wrongly, controversial new names. It's arguable that Big Dave and the Hurwitzers have consigned John Wilson and his "pick up band" to the same Chamber of Horrors as Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Simon.

Have you listened to any of the Daphnis? I thought I was easy where this music was concerned, never being exceedingly particular. But the performance is dreadful. And that calls into question the other Wilson discs that I enjoyed while not knowing the repertoire half as well.

On Saturday 9 December 2023 at 15:23:58 UTC, Andrew Clarke wrote:

> (d) what do you think of Boulez's Debussy? I used to think that La Mer was overblown too ...
>
> Andrew Clarke Canberra

I like it, more the earlier performance of La Mer though. He makes more sense of Jeux in the CSO recording than anyone else.

But there are versions of La Mer I prefer, like Van Beinum.