Sunday Scaries Banishing Songs, Revealed By Spotify Data

Frank Ocean Revealed As The Most Popular Artist To Help Banish The Sunday Scaries  

• SpaSeekers.com analysed over 27,000 songs to reveal which tracks and artists are helping us conquer the Sunday Scaries most often  
• ‘Sunday Morning’ by Maroon 5 was the most popular song for banishing our pre-week fears, featuring in 48 “Sunday Scaries” playlists, followed by ‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan and ‘Cigarette Daydreams’ by Cage the Elephant  
• Frank Ocean was revealed as the most popular artist for banishing Sunday blues, with 300 playlists featuring his tracks  

The ‘Sunday Scaries’ are something that many people will experience during their working lives, with feelings of dread and anxiety for the week ahead creeping up on a Sunday evening as the weekend comes to a close. With more than 341 million views of the hashtag #sundayscaries on TikTok, people are creating and sharing their own tried and tested methods for banishing these feelings once and for all, to reclaim their Sunday nights and make them a more relaxing experience.   

With this in mind, SpaSeekers.com set out to discover which songs and artists are best to add to our playlists to accompany our own Sunday evening wind-down routines.   

Analysing over 27,000 tracks on Spotify which have been added to playlists titled “Sunday Scaries”, the research revealed that ‘Sunday Morning’ by Maroon 5 is the song added most frequently, featuring more frequently than other soothing songs such as ‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan and ‘Cigarette Daydreams’ by Cage the Elephant.  

Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Landslide’ and Frank Ocean’s ‘Lost’ complete the top five, with Ocean also being the most popular artist in the top 25, with ‘Pink + White’ and ‘White Ferrari’ also making the cut. All three of Ocean’s songs were featured more than 24 times in Sunday Scaries playlists, with Ocean also ranked as the most popular artist overall, appearing over 300 times in the playlists analysed.   

Other songs that feature in the top 25 include wind-down favourites ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay and Vance Joy’s ‘Riptide’, as well as Bon Iver’s ‘Skinny Love’.   

The 25 Most Popular Songs For Beating the Sunday Scaries  

#	Title	Artist	No. of features
1	Sunday Morning	Maroon 5	48
2	Stick Season	Noah Kahan	44
3	Cigarette Daydreams	Cage the Elephant	36
4	Landslide	Fleetwood Mac	32
5	Lost	Frank Ocean	32
6	Good Days	SZA	32
7	Riptide	Vance Joy	30
8	Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)	Train	30
9	Iris	The Goo Goo Dolls	30
10	Banana Pancakes	Jack Johnson	30
11	Something in the Orange	Zach Bryan	30
12	Yellow	Coldplay	28
13	River	Leon Bridges	28
14	A Sunday Kind Of Love	Etta James	28
15	The Night We Met	Lord Huron	28
16	Pink + White	Frank Ocean	26
17	Ophelia	The Lumineers	26
18	Like Real People Do	Hozier	26
19	Better Together	Jack Johnson	26
20	Hell N Back	Bakar	26
21	Put Your Records On	Bailey Rae	26
22	Skinny Love	Bon Iver	26
23	Dreams – 2004 Remaster	Fleetwood Mac	24
24	White Ferrari	Frank Ocean	24
25	Another Love	Tom Odell	24

The 10 Most Popular Artists For Soothing Sunday Scaries   

The research also analysed artists who were featured the most in Sunday Scaries playlists, and Frank Ocean came out on top with 300 appearances among the 199 playlists analysed. Ocean’s atmospheric blend of R&B, soul and hip-hop has long been the subject of critical acclaim, but with the artist last releasing music in 2016, it’s unknown as to when fans may get some more tracks to build out playlists further.   

Country pop icon Taylor Swift and rapper Mac Miller followed, with each artist being featured more than 250 times in the playlists. Though Swift may be known for many upbeat pop hits, her recent albums ‘Midnights’, ‘Evermore’ and ‘Folklore’ have taken on a more whimsical folk style, which fit hand-in-hand with the dreamlike feelings many of us look to cultivate on a Sunday evening.   

SZA and Harry Styles round off the top five in 4th and 5th places respectively, with 238 and 216 inclusions apiece on Sunday Scaries playlists.  

#	Artist	No. of features
1	Frank Ocean	300
2	Taylor Swift	294
3	Mac Miller	256
4	SZA	238
5	Harry Styles	216
6	John Mayer	208
7	Noah Kahan	206
8	The Lumineers	180
9	Drake	160
10	Rex Orange County	160

Jason Goldberg, Director at SpaSeekers.com comments:  

“Unfortunately, the Sunday Scaries are something that many people experience on a regular basis, and they do put a damper on otherwise restful and relaxing weekends. The last thing we want for a Sunday evening is to feel full of stress and anxiety, so creating a routine to help you stay calm can be very helpful.   

“As well as creating a playlist to help reduce your stress levels, activities such as meditation and journalling, or even things like swimming and gardening, can be very effective for helping you wind down on a Sunday afternoon. Equally, spending time on a Friday planning your next work week can also help you to feel more prepared ahead of Monday morning and help to put the scaries to bed.”  

Credit to https://www.spaseekers.com/spa-breaks/  who provided the above post.