About

Spotify Top Fans refers to a feature rolled out by Spotify which alerts users who have listened to a specific artist that they are in the top 1-3% of fans for that artists. After many users got such notification in February of 2020, they posted about it on social media, leading others to make parodies of the notifications.

Origin

On February 25th, some Spotify users began receiving alerts that they were in the top percentiles of listeners to certain artists (examples shown below).^[1]

Spread

As fans began posting their notifications, others began posting parodies and jokes about the trend. For example, user @rubyinnes^[2] posted a parody featuring Sonic fan art, gaining over 50 likes (shown below, left). User @nixnada^[3] posted that they had made the Smashing Pumpkins' top fans list despite only listening to one album (shown below, right).

Others posted jokes about their disappointment for not hitting the top 1% for any artist. Some popular tweets of this ilk include a post by @mousepadmusic,^[4] who gained over 30 retweets and 170 likes (shown below, left). User @anjasonline^[5] posted a video that gained over 70 retweets and 310 likes (shown below, right).

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