MANILA, PHILIPPINES — According to Spotify data pulled between April 17 to May 17, listeners have been soundtracking activities from gardening to homeschooling to painting to dyeing their hair. It also shows more than 40 percent increase in listeners around the world creating playlists to enthusiastically clean their homes to, with TLC’s “No Scrubs” being a popular song choice.
For Filipinos in particular, popular song additions to “cleaning” themed playlists include “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift, “Party in the U.S.A.” by Miley Cyrus, “thank u, next” by Ariana Grande, “IDGAF” by Dua Lipa, and “Shut Up and Dance” by WALK THE MOON.
Spotify has also seen a 125 percent increase in the streaming of the podcast “Just Wanna Quilt” and a more than 60% increase in the podcast “WeCrochet.”
Here are some of the other interesting trends:
- A 50 percent increase in the creation of playlists to inspire people while dealing (struggling?) with hair maintenance with songs like “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne, “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” by Fall Out Boy, “The Middle” By Jimmy Eat World, “High Hopes” by Panic! At The Disco, “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots, and “Hair Cutter” by Animal Collective
- More than tenfold increase in the creation of homeschool-themed playlists, with tracks like “Supalonely” by BENEE and Gus Dapperton, “Sucker” by Jonas Brothers, “Circles” by Post Malone, and “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa
- A tenfold increase in playlists created around Nintendo’s popular Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Around a 90 percent increase in painting-themed playlists being created, with Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You” being a popular song pick
- “Work from Home” by Fifth Harmony is the most-added track to playlists about working from home, which has seen a fourteenfold increase. Other popular songs added to these playlists include: “9 to 5” by Dolly Parton, “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd, “Light On” by Maggie Rogers, “10,000 hours” by Dan + Shay (with Justin Bieber), “Boss Bitch” by Doja Cat, “Delicate” by Taylor Swift and “The Less I Know the Better” by Tame Impala.
- There are now more than 2,750 banana bread playlists on Spotify.
