Did Kanye West Help Make Taylor Swift Famous? Pandora Dives Into The Data

As the battle between Taylor Swift and Kanye West continues, the rapper continues to maintain that he made her “Famous.” Pandora dug into their data to analyze the way their. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/07/did-kanye-west-help-make-taylor-swift-famous-pandora-dives-into-th

As the battle between Taylor Swift and Kanye West continues, the rapper continues to maintain that he made her “Famous.” Pandora dug into their data to analyze the way their listeners engage with both artist’s music to answer the question once and for all.

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Taylor Swift vs. Kayne West Stats

Both Kanye and Taylor are top streamed artists on Pandora, with over 4B spins each
To date, listeners have added 33.2M Taylor Swift stations, compared to the 15.8M for Kanye
Taylor’s most popular album, 1989, has over 551.7M spins
Kanye’s most popular album, Graduation, with 143.5 million spins
Kanye’s most popular track, “Stronger” has over 413.7M spins and 16.3M thumbs up
Taylor Swift’s most popular track, “Blank Space” has over 386.7M spins and 14.9M thumbs up
Battle of the “inspired by” songs:
- In the past few months, Kanye’s track “Famous” has racked up over 15.3M spins
- Taylor’s track 2010 track “Innocent” about Kanye has over 30M spins
- In the past month, “Famous” has been thumbed up 68% of the time, while “Innocent” has been up thumbed 51%