Short-video Traffic Linkage: How Social Viral Content Changes Spotify Top Artist Ranking Rules
Social short videos have become the largest external traffic entrance for global music streaming platforms, completely changing the original natural growth logic of streaming data. Viral music clips on short video platforms can bring instantaneous explosive streaming growth to musicians within 24 hours, and even change the monthly ranking pattern of Spotify top artist directly. This article quantifies the external drainage effect of short video platforms on Spotify streaming data, analyzes the advantages and hidden risks of short video traffic for artists impacting Spotify top artist, and predicts the future integration trend between short video social content and streaming music ranking systems. Before the popularization of global short video platforms, the traffic growth of Spotify top artist mainly relied on internal platform recommendation, fan spontaneous communication and offline activities. All data growth modes belong to closed-loop traffic inside the streaming platform, ...