Aphex Twin overtakes Taylor Swift for monthly YouTube listeners – NME

Aphex Twin is currently drawing more monthly YouTube listeners than Taylor Swift, according to official streaming numbers. READ MORE:   Aphex Twin at Printworks, London: still one of the greatest electronic shows on earth The Cornwall experimental producer is currently clocking a total of 448million monthly listeners on YouTube’s streaming service YouTube Music as of today (January 17), well out-performing pop superstar Swift, who is currently sitting on 399million monthly listeners. The numbers on YouTube Music are derived from a metric that includes activity across all parts of YouTube, encompassing audio streams on YouTube Music and music video streams on artists’ official pages on YouTube itself. Crucially, it also includes music consumed passively on YouTube Shorts and fan-generated content, and it is believed that this is how Aphex Twin has managed to rack up such huge numbers. Some, including DJ RamonPang, have observed that the widespread viral use of Aphex Twin’s 2001 track ‘QKThr’ on many videos in recent months (via  Resident Advisor ) is likely to have boosted the figures. In 2014, writer and artist David Rees released an Aphex Twin-Taylor Swift mashup album, titled ‘AphexSwift’. ““I actually think Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) and Taylor Swift have a lot in common besides their songwriting talents – or, at least, they
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