
Popularity indicators are not updated in real-time.This is often the easiest way to tell what’s new for any given artist: scroll through the list of releases, an album or a single with all-grey playcount bars will most-likely have been added to Spotify only recently.
New releases on Spotify have all-grey popularity bars to show their fresh, unplayed status.If users stop listening to a track, then if it has, say, 6 bars today it may have only 4 bars in a few month’s time. So over time, if a song isn’t listened to as much as before then its popularity score will go down. The popularity of a track is based on (1) the total number of plays compared to other tracks and (2) how recent those plays are.The wider you make the Popularity column, the more accurately the bars represent popularity. And you can resize the Popularity column in the search results, Play Queue, and History list. Songs listed on the Top Lists page have 20 bars though, not 12. The more white bars a song has, the more popular it currently is. As a song gets more popular, the bars turn white.

Most Popularity views have 12 bars to indicate the popularity.

The popularity rating is based on total number of plays compared to other tracks as well as how recent those plays are. Spotify use several algorithms to determine the popularity, but in general the more a song is played the higher its popularity. CAUTION – THIS PAGE IS PROBABLY NOW OUT-OF-DATEĮvery track on Spotify has a set of Popularity bars which collectively indicate how popular the track is.
