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Popularity of a track #981

Open mapimagdich opened 6 years ago

mapimagdich commented 6 years ago

Hello, I would like to use the Spotify REST-interface (Spotify WEB-API). Unfortunately there’s no way yet to receive the total views of a song through the interface at the moment (see https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/70). However I found the POPULARITY-OF-A-TRACK-Feature (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-track/). With this feature I can find out the popularity of a song on a scale from 1 to 100 based on the total number of views. The documentation says " ... Note that the popularity value may lag actual popularity by a few days: the value is not updated in real time“. So this means when a new song is released there’s no possibility for me to measure the song’s popularity on Spotify for a few days? Which popularity value does the song have during that time? How long will I have to wait to get a reliable popularity value on Spotify? I would like to find out about the popularity of a song very shortly after release in order to create some kind of chartlist of the most popular songs of a certain genre on Spotify. Thank you for your answer.

mapimagdich commented 6 years ago

additional question: How often the popularity value in general is updated? Is it updated daily? Thank you