Spotify Releases List Of The Most Exciting Songs: Ed Sheeran And Pritam Dominate The Highest Rank

Ed Sheeran is an expert in creating soft transients. (photo: instagram Edsheerandouble)

JAKARTA - Spotify, one of the world's largest music streaming platforms, recently released a list of the 20 most soothing songs in the world. This list is compiled based on the analysis of more than 76,000 songs selected by Spotify users for their casual playlists.

Interestingly, pop-folk artist Ed Sheeran managed to occupy the top two positions with the songs "Perfect" and "Thinking out Loud". These songs are known for their ability to relieve the mind and calm the soul.

Apart from Ed Sheeran, R&B musician John Legend, TikTok Serf Mesa sensation, and British rock band Coldplay also got high ratings on the list.

However, maybe you don't recognize the artist who calms Spotify's version - Pritam (Pritam Chakraborty). Pritam is a composer, instrumentalist, and Bollywood film music singer who has won many awards. He has 10 songs on the list of the top 150 most soothing songs according to Spotify, including "Tem Se Hi" ( 6th place), "Raabta" ( 19th place), and "Subhanallah" ( 20th place).

Although Ed Sheeran's songs occupy the top two positions, the British singer's songs only appear seven times as a whole. Meanwhile, Coldplay got five songs in the top rankings, especially their hits such as "Yellow" ( 8th place), "The Scientist" ( 9th place), and " Fix You" (47th place).

Pop singer and songwriter Billie Eilish is the only female artist to be on the top ten list, with three songs ranked: "Lovely" (24th place), "I Love You" (115th place), and "When the Party's Over" (16th place).

This Spotify playlist is analyzed using the Miner Playlist, a collection tool developed by Paul Lamere, director of the Spotify developer platform. In this analysis, 76,3281 songs were found with search keywords such as 'chill,''relax,'' 'calm,' and'soothing'. These songs are then judged based on the frequency of the appearance of such keywords and summed up as a whole.

According to music producer Andytarof Studio Punch-Up!, the key to the beauty of a calming song lies in the early moments of acoustics of each voice, which is referred to as "transient".

"Transient is an initial spike or attack from a voice. For example, the sound of an initial beating of a drum to a snake drum or applause", saidTEN. "All these sounds have sharp attacks that disappear quickly."

"It's different from the sound that doesn't have transients such as sea waves, wind, or frictional musical instruments in the orchestra," addedathlon, quoted by the Daily Mail.

"These voices slowly fade into the music rather than highlight it. They are gentle and, therefore, calm. They fade to the background," he added.

According toikannya, Ed Sheeran is an expert in creating soft transients. If you listen to Sheeran's latest album, 'Subtract', "You'll see that there's almost no hard transient there."

"There are drums, but all transients - sound surges - are rounded up," continuedTEN, "So the drum beats are soft and comfortable. There is no spike in sound anywhere, so everything is smooth and calming."

This musical technique is only one of the reasons why the singer from Yorkshire who is calm and calming is in high ranking among the artists who are most capable of making you sleep well.

That's the list of Spotify's most calming songs that have been compiled to help relieve stress and relieve anxiety. Hopefully this list can give listeners peace and refresh their souls in difficult moments.