Introducing Forgotify, the site that streams Spotify’s 4 million never-played songs

There are surely a lot of good songs that haven't been heard on Spotify.

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By Caitlin Dewey
January 3, 2014

Twenty percent of the music on Spotify has never, ever been streamed — perhaps the most striking illustration of exactly how vast and unknowable the online music catalogue gets.

But in a brilliant attempt to conquer that last musical frontier, a trio of creatives in California have launched an app called Forgotify that plays only Spotify’s never-streamed songs. They predict there are roughly 4 million of them. If we draw on the well-worn three-minute pop song cliche, that means it’ll take 200,000 people, listening one hour each, to make it through the whole catalog. Not so impossible, actually!

[It will take much less time because, while there are surely great songs that haven't been listened to, there are also surely a lot of songs that people will stop long before the end of the song.]

As for what lies in Spotify’s forgotten Internet trove, it’s a mishmash of esoterica — some of it good: lesser Mozart recordings, ’80s German rockabilly groups, the solo offerings of minor members of long-dissolved rock bands. I’m personally getting really into 85-year-old M.S. Viswanathan, apparently a prolific Kollywood composer. I have no idea what any of the lyrics are, of course, but this is pretty fun.

You can make your own Kollywood discoveries by going to Forgotify.com and logging into Spotify.