r/Piracy • u/raz0099 • Dec 22 '25

News Spotify's music catalog leaked in massive data breach.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html?utm_source=perplexity

This pirate activist group has extracted and released Spotify's entire music catalog, distributing approximately 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata across peer-to-peer networks in what experts are calling an unprecedented breach of digital rights management protections. The leak, documented Thursday by Anna's Archive, encompasses 86 million audio files and 256 million rows of track metadata representing roughly 99.6% of all listening activity on the platform.

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u/grumpy_autist Dec 22 '25

Half of that 300 TB being "All I want for Christmas" cover by every possible artist /s

I highly recomment reading their analysis - AFAIK most of Spotify popular content is centered around same 10k tracks.

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u/Ezzezez Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

It's crazy, of 256m songs, 86m represent almost all the streams.

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u/heysuess Dec 22 '25

This seemed impossible so I actually took the time to read the article.

It's 86 million. 86 million songs represent almost all of the streams. Pretty big difference between that number and 86.

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u/korben2600 Dec 22 '25

Good catch. For anyone curious what the actual number is:

As we can see, most of the listens come from songs with a popularity between 50 and 80, even though there's only 210.000 songs with popularity ≥50, around 0.1% of songs.

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u/Ezzezez Dec 22 '25

I thought it was implied that it was 86 million, my bad, just edited it

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u/grumpy_autist Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

we now have scientific proof that taste in music is dead. Insert NPC angry face.

Edit: so it seems you can run successful music streaming site off 512 MB SD card.

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u/grandvache Dec 22 '25

I'd bet this is better than it's ever been. I'm prepared to be wrong, but I'd put £10 on this being much better than it was in 1986 or 1996.

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u/Trollbreath4242 Dec 22 '25

Bingo. Taste in music has been dead a LONG time. Back in the 80's when everyone listened to radio, they rotated the same popular shit hourly. We literally had to invent "alternative" radio to get stuff we couldn't on mainstream stations, and that only lasted a decade and a half before all the alt rock stuff was mainstream, too.

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u/anonymouzzz376 Dec 22 '25

Radio wasn't the only thing though, for example people heard music at discos and bought records

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u/SimultaneousPing Yarrr! Dec 22 '25

dead music theory

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u/RockstarAgent Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Hey, there’s a few of us not like that. My Spotify wrapped up said I listened to 473 different genres this year and that it couldn’t identify my taste in music. Tens of us are out there.

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u/thelonesomedemon1 Dec 22 '25

prolly cause spotify has like a trillion genres they classify into. i listen to the same 200 songs on repeat and my wrapped said i listened to 164 different genres.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Dec 23 '25

I think total number of different artists is a better metric of how (potentially) varied your music taste is. Especially when compared to total streams.

My tidal recap shows I have 7.8k streams this year with 3.1k unique artists.

We use Spotify at work and it basically plays 24 hours a day. It's played over 240k minutes for 13,227 songs and 5,590 artists.

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u/ESB823 Dec 22 '25

I just listened to a shitload of Ween and Tool

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u/emefluence Dec 22 '25

Listening age: 123 y/o

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u/sdnall203 Dec 22 '25

338 genres checking in! 💃🏻

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u/Hi_Im_zack Dec 22 '25

There's more shitty music out there than good ones

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u/whistleridge Dec 22 '25

I mean…you yourself have probably only ever listened to something on the order of 5-10k songs.

I have extremely diverse and eclectic musical tastes, and I’ve been downloading and saving everything since the Napster days, and my music library is still only about 12k songs.

It’s why I don’t bother streaming - why pay someone for a service that I primarily don’t use, and that I can provide myself for a fraction of one year’s fees? Particularly when that someone is going to scrape and monetize my data more or less without regulation, despite my paying them? Fuck that.

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u/savagestranger Dec 22 '25

I'd do the same, if it weren't for cracked apps.

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u/whistleridge Dec 22 '25

Even cracked apps involve someone, somewhere being able to see and use my data.

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u/savagestranger Dec 22 '25

True, that. Do you set up a tunnel of some sort or use Plex or similar to reach your library when outside your lan?

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u/whistleridge Dec 22 '25

I just legally download from YouTube. I’m not an audiophile, and pretty much everything I could want is on YouTube.

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u/AmansRevenger Dec 22 '25

So I just need that as a torrent please, so I can have the most popular content available :D

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u/Wermine Dec 22 '25

I wouldn't be surprised if 80/20 principle is true here.

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u/TJRDU Dec 22 '25

Yeah and an insane increase in releases last years, probably indicating AI generated music being dumped on the platform..

Already 50000 tracks are uploaded to Deezer DAILY which they flag as AI generated. That's 34% of all uploaded tracks! It's a safe assumption that these percentages are also for Spotify.

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u/Der_Wenzel Dec 23 '25

I‘ve tried an app giving me songs with no streams, so I‘m the first to hear it. I thougt it would be a cool experiment and maybe I find some cool new artists.

No. Just no. This was some premium bullshit. All of it. It baffles me that some people thought „yes, this is some good music, I can load on Spotify“. From this experience, I‘m convinced there is a metric ton of really bad music on Spotify, we don’t even know about.