


Due to a Spotify glitch yesterday, Green Day has received their BEST DAY EVER with 1.549B daily streams across their discography!
I think I can explain a bit on exactly what's happening here!
It has been noted that the "glitch" was supposed to be Spotify combining multiple versions of a song so that they track the same number streams. This is why streaming Wake Me up When September Ends (album version) and Wake Me Up When September Ends (20th Anniversary version) counts towards the same counter.
The first case here is with the Dookie tracks and the Insomniac tracks. Unbeknownst to many, Dookie (and Insomniac) actually has multiple versions of the album on Spotify! The first one is here which is the usual album that Spotify recommends when searching and what's on their artist profile. There's also a second one here which actually have the transitional tracks fixed. Initially, Spotify counts these fixed tracks ("Chump", "Longview") separately, and they have low streams because those specific versions were not being streamed. With the "fix" yesterday, those tracks now uses the same counter, and it seems like that specific version of "Jaded", for example, received 25.9M out of its fixed 26.9M total streams yesterday.
Another case is with the tracks included Nimrods Original Soundtrack. Initially, the original Green Day songs here are different versions from their album version counterparts and hence, they had low numbers too. Now, when streaming "When I Come Around" in the Nimrods Original Soundtrack should also count towards the album version.
There's also some cases that I'm not sure exactly happened, like with "She", "Platypus (I Hate You)", and "Give Me Novacaine", but my guess is that they have something to do with the anniversary editions of the tracks.