While the Grammys are not based on a public vote or popularity, to one school of thought, the stats do the talking.
And while Rüfüs Du Sol took home the Grammy for “Best Dance/Electronic Recording” at the 2022 Edition of the Grammy Awards, the outright winner outright by sheer popularity stats, was “The Business” by Tiësto which was also nominated.
In a quick study run by music research and analytics platform, Viberate, they crunched the online popularity stats of the nominees to let the numbers have the final word. And the verdict, “The Business” was the most popular dance/electronic track of 2021 among the nominees.
Tiësto’s track scored the highest by far among all the nominees in the category according to its combined streaming, social media, and radio airplay numbers. It was streamed over 800 million times, used in almost 500 thousand TikTok videos, got 182 million YouTube views with its official video, and still boasts the highest Spotify playlist reach (76 million).
While according to these online stats, Afrojack & David Guetta placed second with “Hero” which was streamed 58 million times, and Rüfüs Du Sol, who won the Grammy in the category, got third place with 19 million streams. This is by no means proving that the Grammy was any less deserved for “Alive”, it’s a sheer representation of what the numbers and popularity polls in effect shared about the nominated tracks.
We would like to congratulate Rüfüs Du Sol, and Black Coffee who won the Grammy for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” on their big wins last night at the 2022 Grammy Awards!
Listen to the track and the album here!
H/T – Vibrate
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