Artist popularity

[tara_mrvt]

Hi

for ech artist object in spotify API there is a metadata called popularity which has a value between 0 and 100. I want to know how and base on what this score is generated?

[DonSolare]

and also :; how can i check it / them

[fmxy]

Here's the documentation found at the Spotify developer page. Popularity is track-based and a measure of how many plays a track received and how recent those plays are. Then artist popularity is derived from that.

Track API popularity endpoint:

The popularity of the artist. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The artist’s popularity is calculated from the popularity of all the artist’s tracks.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/artists/get-artist/

Artist API popularity endpoint:

The popularity of the track. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular.
The popularity of a track is a value between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The popularity is calculated by algorithm and is based, in the most part, on the total number of plays the track has had and how recent those plays are.
Generally speaking, songs that are being played a lot now will have a higher popularity than songs that were played a lot in the past. Duplicate tracks (e.g. the same track from a single and an album) are rated independently. Artist and album popularity is derived mathematically from track popularity. Note that the popularity value may lag actual popularity by a few days: the value is not updated in real time.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-several-tracks/