Jordan Loeser

Forty songs in: a dense cluster of circles, some doubled and tripled in size, ringed in blue from the cover of Flowers by Miley Cyrus; the list now runs the height of the screen

Eight songs in: a small cluster of single-play circles at the middle of a dark screen, Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter in large type, eight artists listed in the corner
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Early: The screen starts empty, and each artist gets as a small circle on first play.

Forty songs in: a dense cluster of circles, some doubled and tripled in size, ringed in blue from the cover of Flowers by Miley Cyrus; the list now runs the height of the screen
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Later: As the music plays, some circles double or triple and trends start to emerge.

The real end of the party: the screen packed edge to edge with circles, Charli xcx biggest of all, Too Sweet by Hozier in large type
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At the end of the night, the screen is an artifact of who played that night.

Close up

The play counts close up at the end of the night: portraits, names fading with fewer plays, and Charli xcx at the foot with 11
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The circles up close: Sabrina Carpenter and Lady Gaga large among dozens of small portraits, every ring in the gold of the Too Sweet cover
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