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Jan 10

Duplicate Tracks Inflate Stream and Track Counts

Hey found what I would call a bug. Had noticed it before but just confirmed it now. THe total Streams and the Track Count are incorrect. It is including singles that are released on albums adding both stream counts (which are identical). This is inflating the total streams. The Track count is a similar problem where the singles that are on albums are counted twice. I think the solution for this would be if the ISRC was included in the data. That way you could count how many unique ISRCs there are instead of how many total tracks. Likewise you could only sum the streams from unique ISRCs. How you display the tracks is tricky because there would still be the singles and album versions. As long as the totals are correct I don't think it would matter if they both showed the same streams on the tracks.
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Jan 15, 2026

Is this in the context of Artist pages, or Playlist pages? I can see this happening on Artist pages - if you could confirm, I'll get right on this. I can't find any examples to work with,

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GuestJan 16, 2026

Artist pages under tracks is where I notice it. Looking at Spotify Artist data it appears for this artist the difference is around 50k streams. I imagine that for some artists this would be significant difference. As mentioned if the ISRC is included in data that would help to see which releases are duplicate. It would also be good to have total streams included on the Overview page. As an example on https://app.artist.tools/artist/3d2Zw1MP1xyT4SNKlW4I6s The album Just breathe has these tracks that are also singles with the stream counts ####-#### First number is the streams it shows on the album version vs the streams on the single (I'm not sure why some are slightly diffferent maybe something to do with when they are updated. The Sound of Breaking Free 3886-⁠3877 Gonna Be The One 5284-⁠5284 Electric Shadows 4199-⁠4207 Get A Job 2839-⁠2846 Are You Kidding Me 3731-⁠3743 Just Breathe 3147-⁠3147 Flying By 3273-⁠3281 Cracks In The Sky 4885-⁠4885 I Just Want To Know You 2530-⁠2542 Wishes WIth WIngs 5635- 5635

Feb 20, 2026

Sorry for the delay here. I ended up resolving this, but forgot to update the issue here. We now count streams ONCE per ISRC occurrence (taking the highest stream count we see). Let me know if you see this reflected on your side, or if there are still discrepancies!