I Listened to Every Song on Spotify

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]I listened to every single song on Spotify and no, this is not clickbait.

[00:00:04]Have you ever been listening to your favorite artist and thought, "This is cool, but I also want to listen to Kanye and Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande and The Weekend and Eminem and every song made by every musician ever all at once." Me either. But today, we're going to do exactly that because I want to prove a point to YouTube. You see, a couple of years ago, I uploaded my most successful video to date where I made a yeet translator. Now, you might think that with 2.3 million views, I made a lot of Cash Ola from that video.

[00:00:30]But you'd be wrong. YouTube demonetized it, meaning there were no ads on the video, and I made zero dollars, all because I played a few seconds of a yeet song. But today, I'm going to get my revenge on YouTube by playing every single song ever made in this video, all while avoiding demonetization. Well, that's the plan anyway. I have no idea if it will actually work. Now, Google estimates that there are over a 100 million songs on Spotify. And assuming that the average length of each track is 3 minutes and 15 seconds, listening to each song back to back would take 618 years. Although I'd love to spend six lifetimes listening to Kid Rock, JCO, and KSI, that's obviously not possible.

[00:01:07]So, to combat this issue, we're going to listen to just 1 second of every track and play multiple songs at once. That's the only way this is going to be possible. Except there's another issue.

[00:01:16]After a little bit of research, I found that there's no way to scrape Spotify and fetch and download every single song. So, instead, we're going to use YouTube. Here's the plan. Using Spotify data website corp.net, we get a list of the top 5,000 musicians worldwide. We then cross reference this database with YouTube, finding every single music video or official audio published under the artist's name by using category, keyword, and video duration filtering.

[00:01:41]Then, using YTDLP, we extract a random second from each video and combine everything together into a mosaic grid, leaving me with a huge 4hour or so video to watch. Now, yes, the 4-hour video won't include every one of the 100 million songs on Spotify. It will be more like 90,000, but it's the closest we can reasonably get to listen to literally every song on YouTube. It would take terabytes upon terabytes of data and months and months of processing. Speaking of which, that whole plan I set out, including scraping, cross referencing, filtering, extracting, and combining, sounds a little complicated, and you might think that I'm not capable of it. And you'd be right, which is why I enlisted developer David to help me. and basically do everything for me because I have no idea what I'm doing. So, with a huge project to undertake, I left David to his own devices. And after about a week or so, he got back to me with the full video ready to watch. But before I listen to basically every song I ever made, all to prove a point to YouTube, I want to check something. Hi, YouTube. I'm planning to play about 90,000 songs in my next video from the top 5,000 musicians in the world, including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Drake, and more. Are you going to demonetize me for that? Let me know. I cannot provide a definitive yes or no answer. Blah blah blah.

[00:02:52]>> But we all know what you're really thinking, Regor. Of course, you're going to get demonetized, you idiot. But I think I'm going to prove Regor and YouTube wrong and avoid demonetization.

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[00:04:58]We've got a controversial video. We've got a YouTuber song. We've got a famous cameo in one of the music videos. We've got a trumpet in the video. We've got a super explicit video. We've got 10 beach themed videos. We've got a gun pointing at the camera. That one shouldn't be too difficult. We've got three lyrical lemonade videos. We've got a video with alter ego/personas. We've got champagne popping in a video. We've got 10 animated videos. We've got an artist running. We've got five videos of rain in it. We've got underwater. And we've got an amateur lowbudget video. Okay, without further ado, then let's just press play. Basically, every song ever made. Hang on a second. That was an animated one immediately there in this panel here. So, that is one of 10 animated videos ticked off. We're going to put a little dot in there just so we know that one of them has been ticked off. Hang on a second. I've paused it on a very explicit image. I think we can tick that off already. I'm probably going to have to blur that. I'm not even sure whose video that is, but a super explicit video ticked off. Okay, I'm seeing some Ed Sheeran, some Bad Bunny, some Drake, some Taylor Swifts. I'm looking out for the signs. It's quite hard to scan everything from like left to right in one swift movement. There's a lot going on on screen at once. It's quite hard to keep up.

[00:06:03]Seen some Billy Eyish, some Kanye. I'm going to keep an eye on that Kanye square in case there's a controversial video. Potentially even the Eminem square at the top left as well. Feel like that might be where we get the controversial stuff coming in. There's another animated video. So, let's tick that one off as well. So, it's two of 10 done so far.

[00:06:22]Saw a pool there. It's not quite a beach, but we are looking out for the beaches. I've probably missed some already. And also animated stuff. Oh, there's an animated one. That was the is it KD Visions Juiceworld video? That's another animated one. That's three out of 10 done. And also on this screen here, we've got autograph/onmy line by Juiceworld, which I'm going to categorize as an amateur video. So, that's another thing ticked off. Two out of 16 so far, and we've made some progress on the animated video. I also need to watch out for a lyrical lemonade video. I've probably missed some already, but Juiceworld, I know for sure has some of those. So, let's Is that a beach scene? I don't think so. Let's continue.

[00:07:00]I'm watching the Juicew World section specifically. There was Bandit. That was a lyrical lemonade video. That's one.

[00:07:07]There's another animated video, that JuiceWorld video. Also, I just saw All Girls Are the Same and the Bad Boy video, which is two Lyrical Lemonade videos. So, that is ticked off already.

[00:07:16]So, lyrical lemonade. All three of those ticked off. And another animated video.

[00:07:20]So, that's four of 10 so far there.

[00:07:22]Let's continue watching. Because I'm pausing it so often, I'm kind of struggling to sort of get through this very quickly. Another animated video.

[00:07:29]There was the next video. Made that five out of 10 animated videos. Because I'm pausing it so often, it's kind of difficult to actually get through this video. It's going to take a lot longer.

[00:07:37]Although, I did just see two animated videos. It's going so quickly. I just saw two. One in the top right panel and then one second from the left. So, that's seven out of 10 so far. Another animated video. Another X animated video and another one there that I've just paused it on. So, that's going to make 8 n just one more animated video needed already. We're literally only 1 minute and 46 seconds into this video and we ticked off a lot so far, but we still got like 3 hours left. Anything of note here.

[00:08:06]Looking for another animated video. That was I believe just for a flash. That is number 10. Animated videos are done. Is that a beach scene there? That's the sea. I wouldn't necessarily call that the beach. Let's continue. Right. I'm seeing I saw Tyler the Creator in the top left. We could get some controversy controversy in here potentially. Oh god, I feel like I've missed so much already.

[00:08:27]I just saw the video in the top left for Yonkers by Tyler the Creator. We're going to call that a controversial video. Maybe not the most controversial video in the world, but he does eat a cockroach, and that is controversial enough for me. So, let's cross that out.

[00:08:41]That was Was that rain in the top left?

[00:08:43]I don't know. I'm not going to go back.

[00:08:44]It's going to be a nightmare to try and rewind. Come on. Beach. Beach somewhere.

[00:08:48]Ah, there was a beach in this panel just there. So, that's one of 10 ticked off.

[00:08:52]And is that a trumpet that I've paused it on here? I'm not actually sure. It looks like a different type of instrument. Maybe like a not an obo, but like a I don't know, something else. I don't think it's a trumpet. We're going to continue.

[00:09:06]This is literally just such a cacophony of sound right now that I'm listening to. It's just I can't decipher anything from it. It It doesn't It's not really a great listening experience. I just saw a beach. We're going to have to rewind that because I kind of missed it and was very late reaction. But that's two of 10 ticked off.

[00:09:23]Oh, KSI YouTuber song. We're counting that. Ticked off. Are we counting that as underwater? There was like sharks swimming around. I mean, I'm thinking for underwater. I was thinking fully submerged. So, I think we won't count that one for now. Oh, is that Yeet? No.

[00:09:38]I thought that was Ye. It does look a little bit like him for a second there.

[00:09:41]It's funny like the seconds of each song that I'm hearing. Like you can kind of make out some of the songs just from a second even despite seven other songs being laid on top of them. Beach running yeet song. Beach. I was just going through them in my head to make sure I didn't forget any, but there we go. There was a beach one just there. Second from the left. 10 minutes in now. Like 3 hours 10 minutes at least left. Great beach. Top left was beach. Don't know why I'm getting so animated at seeing beaches right now, but that's four out of 10 ticked off for beach.

[00:10:17]My eyes are literally like darting back and forth between each frame. I don't know where to look. Like, do I focus in the middle? I don't know what to do. I feel we might have missed out on ye at the minute because the way that this whole system works is like the most popular artists are played at the beginning and then I'm guessing they get less and less popular as they go along because it's taken from the top 5,000 artists. And I would imagine that Ye is going to be in the top two 300 probably of most popular artists. And I don't know how many artists we've gone through now, but I'm starting to recognize less and less. So maybe we have gone past Ye.

[00:10:47]I'm not sure. But surely I would have seen it if there was a panel dedicated to Ye. I surely I would have.

[00:10:55]Rain. I just saw Rain in this panel here. I don't know if that's a K-pop group or if I'm just being racist, but Rain. I saw Rain. Bang.

[00:11:06]Oh, is that yeet in the top right? Oh, I don't know. I thought I saw yeet for a second.

[00:11:12]Is he like Oh, that's an instrument. Top right. There's some instrumentation going on here. Trumpet. That was a trumpet. There's some trumpets in the top right right now. Trumpet in video.

[00:11:21]Where is it? Ticked off. I think with all the items on the bingo board, I think the famous cameo is going to be the hardest one to tick off because within like a second, I'm not going to be able to see a celebrity, you know, that well and go, "Yes, that's the cameo." And even if someone does have a cameo in the video, what are the chances that it's within the 1 second that we've clipped into this format.

[00:11:41]So yeah, that's going to be quite difficult.

[00:11:48]Rain. I just saw rain in this square here. Second from the left. There's another one to tick off on the rain section. That's two out of five.

[00:11:58]There was a gun in the bottom left there on a little pump video. And there was a gun pointing at the camera in the bottom left in a little pump video. We can takeick that off. Gun at camera ticked off.

[00:12:11]I'm kind of using like other artists as a sort of litmus test to see whether we've gone past Ye or not because I saw Ice Spice in the top right a second ago and surely Ye has more listeners than I Spice on like every platform. So, he would have been before her in this video which means I've missed him. We haven't had a beach in a while. I'm saying that trying to sort of put a sort of commentator's curse on this and try and get a beach scene to appear and hopefully it will do so if I just keep talking. Um though it doesn't appear to have worked so far. Maybe now. Oh, there was in the bottom left. Wow. I've actually called that sort of. I guess I was talking for about 30 seconds. But another beach scene to tick off. That makes six out of 10 so far.

[00:12:54]Beach. Bottom right. beach. That's number seven out of 10.

[00:13:00]Okay, come on. Beach. There was a beach just here. And there's a beach in the bottom right as well. That's two for one right there. That brings the beach numbers up to eight, meaning there's only two left.

[00:13:13]Beach. I saw a beach. Second from the right again. That makes number nine now.

[00:13:20]Beach. Second from the left. Beach.

[00:13:23]That's 10 for 10. Beach section has been done.

[00:13:28]Running second from the right at the bottom. Running. Artist running. I'm assuming that's the main artist, but we're going to count that anyway. Anyone running will do. This is where it becomes a little bit difficult as well, cuz I've got to sort of purge the previous things on the bingo board from my mind. Like, we're not looking for a beach anymore. We're not looking for a YouTuber song anymore. Like, we've ticked off some already, but I'm still sort of kind of half looking for them, even though I shouldn't be.

[00:13:55]underwater. In the second bottom right video, I saw underwater. It looked like a seal or something or or a manity or something underwater. Maybe even a sea line. Who knows? But something was certainly underwater. I mean, I didn't specify that it had to be an artist underwater. So, we're going to takeick off underwater for that.

[00:14:15]I thought I saw rain. I might have done, but not certifiably.

[00:14:23]Rain. That was Rain second video from the right. Rain. That makes three out of five. Two more to go in the rain section, but obviously some more things to take off elsewhere as well. The difficult thing as well with the Yeet song is that I obviously will recognize Yeet if I see him, but you know, the chances are he might not even be in frame in the video that we're seeing or he might be a back a bit from the camera. I'm not sure how well I recognize his music videos as a whole.

[00:14:48]What the hell is that bottom right? That Kanye song. What the hell?

[00:14:54]I have a feeling we might go through the entire 3 and 1/2 hours and not see a single yeet song or a famous cameo either. I mean, we might well have seen them and gone past them by now, but I haven't specifically seen them, so we can't count it, obviously.

[00:15:10]But hopefully we do manage to tick off everything on the board. I mean, you guys can play along at home as well. If you see anything that I don't catch, by all means, let me know in the comments.

[00:15:22]Rain. Second from the left. Must have been a James Brown video cuz there was some James Brown videos before and after. Rain. Is that five out of five or four? 1 2 3. Oh, it's only four, but we're we're one away. Rain will get done, I'm sure.

[00:15:35]Rain again. Rain. Rain again twice in a row in the top left. I'm pretty sure. At least the first one was. I'm not sure sure about that one, but that is five out of five. Um I'm just watching this back and that's definitely not rain.

[00:15:47]It's quite clearly snow. I don't know what was going on with me and I don't know why I was tripping over my words as well, but I I don't know what's gone on there. Bang. Rain has been ticked off.

[00:15:56]>> I think that's a bit dodgy, mate.

[00:15:57]>> Sorry for any of you who are watching who are getting like sensory overload right now. I mean, if you want, I can put subway surface at the bottom, but I don't know if that will make it worse or better. But there we go.

[00:16:10]I kind of wish I paid a little bit more attention at the beginning. Not that I wasn't, but it was kind of difficult for me to manage my eyes for eight different sections of a screen. I think I got a little bit more used to it now, but at the beginning I wasn't doing so so much.

[00:16:22]But obviously, I've probably missed a famous cameo at the beginning, probably in like a Drake video or something like that and a yeet song, I'd imagine, too.

[00:16:30]And maybe some alter ego and champagne popping as well. But I'm not too worried about those because they will probably appear again at some point. But, you know, those first two, the yeet song and the famous cameo, we might well have completely missed our opportunity to see.

[00:16:44]Maybe I was like confused with the champagne popping. I thought that was like a staple of a lot of music videos like in the club someone throwing champagne. I thought that was kind of like a a quite common trope. But maybe I was wrong about it. At this point, I do kind of wish as well that at previous points when I was watching this video, when I thought I saw something like a famous cameo or a champagne being popped or an alter ego or something, I actually rewound the video to make sure I did or did not see that so I could take it off because now the chances of me finding some of these things are very slim. Top right, I literally just said that. And then at the top right, I saw champagne being poured. It wasn't technically being popped from the bottle, but at this point, an hour and 28 into the video with an hour 58 left. I'm going to count that 100%. Champagne popping or being poured is probably the more accurate term has been ticked off. I can't believe I'm spending a random Wednesday afternoon listening and watching 94,000 music videos. Like that's got to be one of the weirdest things I've ever done on Wednesday afternoon.

[00:17:41]I'm trying to think as well, like halfway through this video, an hour 45 in, I've probably watched what 47,000 videos at this point. I'm trying to think if there's like one thing that sort of joins them all together. Like some main themes that I'm seeing in a lot of videos. I mean, explicity would be one of those things, I guess, cuz a lot of them are explicit. I just saw a cat playing a piano. Sorry, that's completely distracted me. Um, what year is this? Like 2005. What is going on?

[00:18:07]Alter ego. I'm pretty sure I just saw an alter ego/ persona. Basically, two of the same person on screen in the third panel from the right at the bottom.

[00:18:16]Alter ego personas finally ticked off.

[00:18:19]And that of course means we only have two left. yeet song and famous cameo top left and top right on the bingo board and I have absolutely no hope that we're going to get either of them. Now, let me know as well in the comments if you guys have seen a famous cameo or a yeet song in this video. Obviously, I've not played the 3-hour 30 video in my YouTube video, but in any of the sections that I've clipped up, there might be a famous cameo or a yeet song. So, let me know if you've seen those.

[00:18:45]I've basically gone nonverbal for the past like 5 10 minutes just because nothing has happened. And there's nothing on screen of note really. I mean, nothing that ticks off the bingo board at least. With about an hour 25 left, I'm really not confident that we're going to see a yeet song or a famous cameo, but hopefully we will and be able to tick off the last two things on the bingo board. But either way, we've listened to 94,000 songs today.

[00:19:11]I think I just heard Darude Sandstorm for like well obviously 1 second of it, but that was kind of weird.

[00:19:18]That was like neuron activation right there. We are starting to see some like movie soundtracks come through like I saw the 1917. There it is again.

[00:19:25]Skyfall, some other things like that, brothers. But if we get a movie clip with a song in the background, for example, like a famous song or needle drop in a movie, obviously that movie is going to have famous actors in it. But I don't think we can categorize that as a famous cameo because obviously it's not a cameo in a music video for an artist.

[00:19:43]It's just an actor in a film. So, we're not going to count any of those if we do see see any of them.

[00:19:50]Is that Young Boy I heard? I feel like that might have been the the nasal doulit tones of NBA Young Boy, but I can't see him right now.

[00:19:59]Right. I'm seeing Easy E in the bottom left. Does he have any famous cameos in his videos? Not 100% sure. And then I just saw an AI generated squirrel next to him and now Easy E is gone. This video is very, very weird so far. Here's the question as well. If we do see a music video that is known for having a famous cameo, but the 1 second clip that we get on screen doesn't have that cameo in it, do we count that? I say no because at the start of this video when I set out to do this, that wasn't the plan. It was just if the famous cameo is on screen, we count it. But I'm kind of having to clutch at straws right now because I'm not getting anything that even resembles a famous cameo. I am seeing Eminem right now in the second frame from the right and like bad meets evil and stuff like that. So maybe when I said earlier that reuploads don't count and they would appear at the same point as earlier, maybe they do. And that was the rap god video. Does the rap god video have a famous cameo in it?

[00:20:48]Does the rap god video have a famous cameo in it? I mean, yeah, the whole thing is a Max Headroom reference, but does it have a cameo?

[00:20:58]So, I'm still seeing Eminem videos here.

[00:21:00]I mean, that was the Forever video with Drake and everyone. And I'm pretty sure that LeBron is in that video. Is LeBron in the Forever music video? It says yes.

[00:21:08]And I'm pretty sure I knew that already.

[00:21:10]Like I say, I called that out as soon as we saw the Forever video. But do we count that and do we take it off the bingo board? Because like I said before, it is a famous cameo in that video, a famous example of one as well, but it wasn't on screen at any moment. You know what? I'm going to be generous to myself because I don't think we're going to see another famous cameo. So, I'm going to tick it off halfway. If we get another sort of half example where there's a famous cameo in the video, but it's not on screen during the 1 second, then I'll tick off the other half. I mean, the fact that we got an Eminem video on here does give me some sort of hope because it means that re-uploads or uploads on different channels appear later in this video.

[00:21:47]I can see Dax, the greatest artist of all time, in the top left. I mean, if we hadn't already ticked off YouTube, a song with KSI, we can do now with Dax.

[00:21:56]And what what a musician that is. Come on. We need at least 15 out of 16 on the bingo board. I feel like that would be a respectable place to finish. We've got like 40 minutes left. Hopefully, we can do that. But at this point, it's kind of up in the air. It's kind of crazy to think that everyone that's been on screen for the past 3 hours is a well-known musician. Like, these are the top 5,000 musicians in the world. These are famous people. But for half of this video, I've not really recognized anyone.

[00:22:22]I was saying earlier how it would be interesting to see as we watch this video whether the genres sort of change like if it goes from more mainstream pop sort of stuff to more underground things but if anything it's just changed like geographies because a lot of the videos that I'm seeing are sort of Middle Eastern Asian now and of those sort of descent and the other thing as well is that I am seeing some popular artists for the first time in the latter stage of this video but they're predominantly like older artists who like were famous in the 70s, the 80s, the '9s, whatever.

[00:22:53]Like, I saw Slayer, I saw Blue Suede, I saw who else did I see? Essentially, a bunch of musicians who debuted before the streaming era. We've done 3 hours of this video at this point. There's less than half an hour left. And honestly, I thought that I'd be like looking forward to the end of this video at this point, but it's been kind of fun like watching along trying to find some things to tick off on the bingo board.

[00:23:18]Why have I just seen Charlie Kirk? like he has invaded everywhere. What is going on?

[00:23:27]It's weird like throughout this whole video for some reason I keep thinking that I'm hearing Trippy Red. Like I'm hearing like a nasely ah or something, but it's probably just like the mushing together of all the songs. Okay, we've only got 10 minutes left of this big journey now. And I've actually realized something as well that's kind of annoying. So obviously I've sat through 3 and 1 half hours at this point or it will be by the end of this video of music videos 1 second each eight at a time back to back to back to back. It's a lot to kind of take in but I'm going to have to do that same thing again one more time when I edit this video. I'm going to have to sit through the whole thing one more time. So that's kind of annoying. Um we're maybe seeing like a slight glitch in this video right now. I mean these three panels here have been frozen. Maybe this one as well. Maybe there's some sort of glitch in the algorithm in the video here, which obviously isn't too big of a deal now that we've only got 5 minutes left of this video. But that means that we're relying on only four panels now. We've only got four left. So, the chances of seeing a famous cameo in a yeet song are technically halfed right now. It's now down to three. Look, this one's been frozen out. We've just got Oh, no. This one as well. There's only two. Uh, but I guess that means I've got less to look at. There's less to check. It is actually quite nice listening to just two songs at a time. Now, down to one.

[00:24:38]It's just another one's dropped off. It means that we don't have to listen to that cacophony of awful sound together and we can pick out things more easily.

[00:24:44]But just one song left now. Feels kind of empty. 10 9 8 We've got a frozen screen now, but the music is still playing in the background. 4 3 2 and 1 over. There it is. 3 hours and 27 minutes. I've condensed it into a short video for you guys, but I had to sit through the entire thing. Done. And here is the bingo board as it's finished, as it's done. Obviously, yeet song has not been ticked off. The famous cameo has been half ticked off, but other than that, we've got 14 out of 16 done, which I think is pretty good going. Okay, now that we finished listening, let's see if uploading that video of 94,000 songs to YouTube gets me demonetized. The video is in the process of being uploaded, so very soon we'll see if it passes the checks. I'm very much hoping that we can monetize this video not for my personal gain or money or anything like that, but so we can prove YouTube and indeed Regor wrong. So, here we go. The moment of truth. The video has finished processing. So, let's have a look and see if it got demonetized. Hopefully not. Fingers crossed. Let's see.

[00:25:46]Copyright, no issues found. Adability, no issues found. Great. in your face.

[00:25:50]Regal.