You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

By comparing song-level streamcounts to the ones in the Spotify charts they were able to see that, for example, the Spotify internal charts up until 2021 intentionally reduced the effects of looping by counting a capped number of plays per day per song per listener. This wasn’t exactly secret, and even the actual cap-value of 10 was pretty-generally known, but it wasn’t prominently disclaimed, and it resulted in the heavily-looped BTS single 'Butter' losing out to Olivia Rodrigo’s 'good 4 you' on Spotify’s own charts during its release week, despite setting historic records for its total streams.