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Quiz: This Week on ‘For the Record’

June 17, 2021

Think you're up-to-date on the latest in Spotify news, data, and trends? Take our quiz to test just how well you’ve been following along.

1. The new Summer Breakouts playlist is made up of tracks that Spotify’s editorial experts predict will pop off this summer. How often is this playlist updated?
1. How many hours have listeners streamed Spotify’s most popular and influential playlist, Today’s Top Hits?
2. Boza is the latest artist to join the U.S. roster for our emerging talent program, RADAR. However, this isn’t the first time that the Panamanian singer has been picked to be a RADAR artist. In 2020, Boza was part of RADAR in what region?
3. Spotify announced a new podcast network, The Unbothered Network, in partnership with a creator. Which podcaster is at the helm?
4. New Spotify original podcast “Proxima Parada” brings its listeners daily news from the outskirts, or “quebradas,” of São Paulo, Brazil. When does the podcast premiere?

Quiz: This Week on ‘For the Record’

June 11, 2021

Think you're up-to-date on the latest in Spotify news, data, and trends? Take our quiz to test just how well you’ve been following along.

1. Actor and activist Adrian Grenier cofounded the nonprofit Lonely Whale to build community, connect with the ocean, and fight plastic waste. At what unique frequency does the real lonely whale, the organization’s namesake, sing?
2. Does Spotify’s personalized Football Now playlist, available for listeners in the U.K. and Germany, update weekly or daily?
3. Feelin’ Myself is the second-biggest, second-fastest-growing hip-hop playlist on Spotify. Which of these rule-breaking hip-hop artists can you find there?
4. What does EQUAL artist of the month Jorja Smith say is a defining moment of her career?
5. K-pop girl group TWICE fans can get excited for TWICE Presents Taste of Love, the Enhanced Album, a colorful playground of captivating video and audio accompanying each of the group’s six new songs. Fans of TWICE are known as what?

Quiz: This Week on ‘For the Record’

June 4, 2021

Think you're up-to-date on the latest in Spotify news, data, and trends? Take our quiz to test just how well you’ve been following along.

1. Actor and activist Adrian Grenier cofounded the nonprofit Lonely Whale to build community, connect with the ocean, and fight plastic waste. At what unique frequency does the real lonely whale, the organization’s namesake, sing?
2. Does Spotify’s personalized Football Now playlist, available for listeners in the U.K. and Germany, update weekly or daily?
3. Feelin’ Myself is the second-biggest, second-fastest-growing hip-hop playlist on Spotify. Which of these rule-breaking hip-hop artists can you find there?
4. What does EQUAL artist of the month Jorja Smith say is a defining moment of her career?
5. K-pop girl group TWICE fans can get excited for TWICE Presents Taste of Love, the Enhanced Album, a colorful playground of captivating video and audio accompanying each of the group’s six new songs. Fans of TWICE are known as what?
6. Rising artists featured on Fresh Finds see their average monthly listeners increase by what percentage in the 28 days following their addition to the playlist?
7. Spotify Advertising’s annotated audio series Outside Voices kicked off last week with two creators: documentary filmmaker Mike Shum, and Nwaka Onwusa, the Chief Curator and Vice President of Curatorial Affairs at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Who’s the artist both individuals have on their playlist?

Quiz: Can You Match the Songwriter to Their Work?

February 12, 2020

Creating hit songs and albums can be a group effort, comprised of a team of songwriters, composers, and producers whom you don’t often see onstage. You’ve heard these behind-the-scenes artists’ work on your favorite albums and playlists—but can you match them to their work? Whether they write for themselves, one other artist, or several hit groups, we’re celebrating the songwriters, artists, and producers who help create some of the world’s favorite music.

Today, we announced the beta of songwriter pages, a new way for fans to dive deeper into the creators behind their favorite songs. In celebration, we want to test your songwriting savvy—challenge yourself with the quiz below. (Oh, and even if you get a question wrong, you can keep choosing answers until you get the right one.)

Songwriters Tayla Parx and Victoria Monet both worked on which of Ariana Grande’s albums?
Mark Ronson received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award for penning which song?
Each of these female songwriters is accomplished in her own right. Who had six nominations at the 61st Grammy Awards in 2019, making her the most nominated woman?
This songwriter, singer, musician, and producer worked on albums for Weezer and Panic! at the Disco that were nominated for the Rock Album of the Year at the 59th annual Grammy Awards in 2017.
Choose the option that correctly matches each hip-hop and pop songwriter with their stage name. 
In 2019, Missy Elliott became the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Which of the following songs did she not have a hand in crafting?
This German composer has a vast catalogue of work but his claim to fame also includes winning the Eurovision song contest for "Rise Like a Phoenix," written for Conchita Wurst.

How Well Do You Know the Spotify Songs of Summer? Take Our Nostalgia Quiz

June 25, 2019

It’s (finally) getting hot in the northern hemisphere, which means it’s time to start searching for the perfect summer song. Each year, we release our own predictions on which tracks will be the hottest songs of the season. Now we’re also taking a look back at the tracks that ruled summers past. Take our quiz below to find out if you remember all the artists that soundtracked your summertime.

It's getting hot in here.
So take our summer music quiz.

Start

The year was 1995 and crop tops were everywhere. Which track was not a top summer jam that year?

"Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" - Los Del Rio

The “Macarena” was a massive global hit in 1996, not 1995. Today on Spotify, the track averages 30K streams per day and is especially popular in Mexico and Germany.

Which artist has claimed two Spotify songs of the summer in the past 5 years?

Drake

Drake's “One Dance” was the most-streamed song in 2016 and “In My Feelings” was the top summer song in 2018. Kiki, do you still love me?

Which popular summer song from the aughts was parodied by “Weird Al” Yankovic as “Trash Day?”

“Hot in Herre” - Nelly

Nelly's "Hot in Herre," which ruled charts in the summer of 2002, appears in nearly 8 million playlists on Spotify. 

In 2012, we were all obsessively tending to our terrariums, sharing corgi memes, and listening to one summer bop nonstop. What was that song?

“Call Me Maybe” - Carly Rae Jepsen

Curiously, this peppy track sees a significant spike in streams whenever the month of May rolls around. 

Which summer hit tested Justin Bieber’s Spanish-speaking abilities?

“Despacito (Remix)”

“Despacito (Remix)” by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee & Bieber streamed 780M+ times in the summer of 2017.

Survivors’s “Eye of the Tiger” is widely considered to be 1982’s song of the summer. Today, in which Spotify playlist does it stream the most?

All Out 80s

But there’s no denying that when played at the right volume, "Eye of the Tiger" can bring out anyone’s swagger.

Not every summer song is a carefree, feel-good jam. Which song stalked the charts to become
the song of the summer in 1983?

“Every Breath You Take” - The Police

Understood to be about stalking a former lover, “Every Breath You Take” is always popular with Spotify listeners, who have streamed it 85M+ times so far in 2019 alone.

There are 135K+ songs with the word “summer” in the title on Spotify. Which one is the most streamed?

“Summer” - Calvin Harris

“Summer” was also Spotify’s most-streamed song in summer 2014.

Which musician told the world they were suffering from “summertime sadness”?

Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Ray released the song “Summertime Sadness” in June 2012. While it’s not especially upbeat, the track is still a popular pick for listeners’ summer-themed playlists on Spotify.

Complete this lyric from the Grease classic “Summer Nights.” We went strolling, drank _____.

Lemonade

Lemonade. That sounds pretty refreshing, doesn't it? Bottoms up - you made it to the end of the quiz.
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Beat the heat with more cool summer jams.

 

Just in time for those beach or poolside days, we’re also renewing Your Summer Rewind. The personalized playlist is filled with songs you listened to heavily on Spotify during your past steamy, streaming summers. Users in some regions that celebrate summer starting in June* can find their playlist on the Summer Hub and at spotify.com/rewind.  

*Including United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Austria, Japan, and for the very first time Romania and Israel.