{"id":2435535,"date":"2026-05-28T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2435535"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:32:59","slug":"stream-league-turns-spotifys-new-music-friday-playlist-into-a-fantasy-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stream-league-turns-spotifys-new-music-friday-playlist-into-a-fantasy-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream League turns Spotify&#8217;s &#8216;New Music Friday&#8217; playlist into a fantasy draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you predict the 10 biggest releases of the week by stream-counts? If so, a new site called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thestreamleague.com\/\">Stream League<\/a> may be right up your street \u2013\u00a0although it could also puncture your hit-spotting confidence.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launched by Kieron Donoghue \u2013\u00a0previously of ShareMyPlaylists, WMG and Humble Angel Records \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s pitched as \u201ca free weekly fantasy draft for music industry professionals\u201d.\n\n\n<aside>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every Friday, the site publishes the latest tracks to appear on Spotify\u2019s \u2018New Music Friday\u2019 playlist and asks players to pick (or \u2018draft\u2019) the 10 that they think will get the most streams over the following week.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stream League then tracks those streams \u2013\u00a0on Spotify only for now \u2013 and shows a league table of the best pickers.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t just for fun and giggles. Donoghue hopes Stream League will become a valuable \u201cdataset on industry consensus and dissent around new music\u201d, with plans to publish a weekly \u2018The Numbers\u2019 report analysing that data.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, in the week of 15-21 May, four of the 10 most-streamed new tracks were not drafted by <em>any<\/em> of the players in Stream League\u2019s beta test.\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are tracks the industry collectively bets on that go nowhere, and tracks almost no one picks that explode,\u201d said Donoghue. \u201cOver time, the data will show us who in the industry has the sharpest ears, and where collective taste diverges from what audiences actually stream.\u201d\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s very early days (disclosure: I\u2019m <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thestreamleague.com\/leaderboard\">fifth in the current midweek table<\/a>, although that\u2019s out of 14 beta testers, so I\u2019m not going to boast too much) but this morning sees Stream League emerge from stealth mode, keen to sign up A&amp;R, marketing, editorial and management professionals from the music industry.\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section><\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you predict the 10 biggest releases of the week by stream-counts? If so, a new site called Stream League may be right up your street \u2013\u00a0although it could also puncture your hit-spotting confidence. Launched by Kieron Donoghue \u2013\u00a0previously of ShareMyPlaylists, WMG and Humble Angel Records \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s pitched as \u201ca free weekly fantasy draft for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[369532,324888],"class_list":["post-2435535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music-streaming-economy","tag-startups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stream-League-turns-Spotifys-New-Music-Friday-playlist-into-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435537,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435535\/revisions\/2435537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}