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The Super Friday chart is a weekly ranking of artists and tracks based on how often they appear across Spotify's New Music Friday (NMF) playlists. It does not measure streams, sales, or radio play. Instead, it counts features — the number of NMF playlists a given artist or track shows up in during a given week. The more playlists a track or artist appears in, the higher it ranks. The chart is rebuilt and published every Friday.
What the chart measures
SuperFridayChart compiles the New Music Friday playlists that Spotify operates and then builds a single chart from them each Friday. The core unit is an appearance: if a track is included in one NMF playlist, that counts as one feature. A track placed in ten different NMF playlists counts as ten.
This means the chart reflects editorial placement breadth, not listener behavior. A song can rank highly here without strong streaming numbers, and a heavily streamed song can be absent if editors did not add it to many NMF lists.
Artists vs. tracks
The same counting logic applies at two levels:
| Level | What is counted | What a high rank suggests |
|---|---|---|
| Track | Number of NMF playlists containing that track | The track received wide editorial placement that week |
| Artist | Number of NMF playlists featuring that artist (across their tracks) | The artist was broadly pushed across regional NMF lists |
An artist's position therefore depends on how many of their releases were placed, and in how many playlists — not on a single song's performance.
The ranking logic
Ranking is straightforward: more appearances = higher position. There is no weighting by playlist size, follower count, or market importance in the described methodology. A placement in a small regional NMF list counts the same as a placement in a large one.
This has a practical consequence for reading the chart:
- A track present in many regional NMF playlists will outrank a track present in only one or two, even if the latter is in a more prominent list.
- Ties in appearance count are resolved by the site's own ordering, which is not specified in the available material.
- Because the count is playlist-based, the chart is a snapshot of editorial reach, not popularity.
Update cycle
The chart is updated weekly, with a new edition dated each Friday. The archive on the site lists consecutive Fridays going back through 2024 and into 2026, so you can compare any given week against prior weeks.
To use it:
- Open the site and select the Friday date you want.
- Read the ranked list of artists and tracks for that week.
- Compare across dates to see whether an artist's placement breadth is rising or falling.
Expected result: you get a week-by-week view of which artists and tracks were most widely placed across NMF playlists, and how that changes over time.
When this chart is useful — and when it isn't
Use it if you want to:
- Track which new releases are getting the widest editorial push on Spotify each Friday.
- Spot artists whose placement breadth is growing across weeks.
- Compare editorial placement patterns across different Fridays.
It is not a substitute for streaming charts. If you need to know what listeners are actually playing, this chart won't tell you — it only reflects how many NMF playlists a track or artist was added to.