Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
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As can be read everywhere on the internet, statistically speaking, the first and third songs are indeed played more often.

Really/ Let's look at that. I believe that everybody and their AI bots are saying it but there is no data backing that up. I used to work for a company that tracked such things.

Where are those statistics? I've not seen any reason to believe they exist. If the ACE/Songview database (ASCAP/BMI/SESAC/GMR), Billboard or AppleMusic released such stats, I could believe that.
I've seen countless websites claiming that A&R people listened to the first and third tracks first when they got a new album.
Since I started writing music at a time when A&R people had long been gone, and I'm a curious person, I simply looked at my Spotify statistics (if you have a "Spotify for Artists" account, you can see these figures), and as I said above, this was exactly the case for MY two albums, at least.

Of course, my two albums are statistically insignificant in the ocean of new releases that appear every day, but I still found it interesting.

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