2 percent, dang.
Spotify released a new widget called Found Them First today, purportedly to tell users which artists they streamed before anyone else. In practice, though, the widget seems mostly to be a tool for informing people that they listened to Lorde. Which makes sense: If you streamed “Royals†when it blew up online in July 2013 — in other words, if you’re the type of person who reads pop-culture blogs — you were almost certainly in the first 10 percent of listeners, considering how ubiquitous the song got later that fall. Congratulations: You’re an independent, trailblazing tastemaker — just like everyone else.