How the rankings work
One list of Polish artists. The place depends on popularity: how many people really listen to and follow an artist on the platforms.
We measure an artist's popularity
We use listening to an artist's best tracks on YouTube, channel subscribers, and numbers from Spotify, Deezer and Instagram. Each platform weighs as much as its numbers agree with the rest. Since Ranking 2.1 what counts is listening NOW: every view loses weight over time — after a year it counts half, after two years a quarter — so an old hit with no new listeners slowly gives way to what people play today. The ranking updates with every data update, and the place is a 7-day average of measured days. Ranking 2.2 inherits the place history of 2.1 (only the Google reach bonus changed), so "since yesterday" movement continues without a gap; for a change that would shift the whole history, no movement is shown on the first day of the new version. We show no points — only the place and the platform numbers. Step by step: How we rank.
Each additional track counts less than the previous one, and the best track counts at most 2× the rest of the catalogue. Views without likes and comments only count up to a normal level; subscribers and followers count at most 3× above listening. Unrelated videos, covers and promotional clips do not raise an artist's position. Having no account on a platform never lowers the place.
Since Ranking 2.2 a small bonus for reach in Google search is added too: how many times in the last 90 days Google showed people the artist's profile and track pages, with clicks weighing more. The bonus only adds and grows slowly (logarithmically); its maximum equals about 26% more popularity. A single impression is not enough. Only part of the profiles are in Google's index and new artists start at zero, so having no Google reach subtracts nothing: such an artist counts exactly as before.
Sources and dates
YouTube Data API supplies track views, likes and comments, channel subscribers and statistics, and publication dates. Spotify monthly listeners and Deezer fans come from the artist's public page, once a day, with the source beside the number. We publish no figures from the Deezer or TIDAL APIs, because their terms allow non-commercial use only; TIDAL appears only as a "Listen on…" link. Instagram followers come from the official API (Business Discovery). TikTok followers and likes come from the artist's public profile page, once a day; followers count as audience only from 30 artists shared with YouTube, likes are only shown. A platform number counts only after we confirm the profile belongs to the same artist; a reading older than 30 days counts as missing. Google reach comes from Google Search Console (impressions and clicks of the artist's profile and track pages in Google results over the last 90 days, once a day); data older than 14 days counts as missing and then there is no bonus.
Coverage and missing data
Artist pages show the number of eligible recordings and which have measured views. Missing or stale measurements are never counted as zero. Partial data is labelled and may understate an artist's place. New measurements or a corrected eligibility decision can change a position.
Polish creators only
TopAIMuza ranks Polish creators only. A creator is Polish when the YouTube channel country is Poland, or when the creator says so and confirms channel ownership. The language of a song is not a criterion.
Ties and meaning
Equal scores share a position; names only determine display order within a tie. Genre lists and the comparison page still use views of eligible YouTube recordings, with measurements no more than 14 days old. A position describes the public TopAIMuza catalogue, not artistic quality or a complete music scene. The Polish catalogue currently contains 950 public artist profiles.
Limits
Platforms can correct their counters after collection. We show the value and date of the stored measurement. We do not know play counts on Spotify or other services. Artists state that they use AI; we do not detect AI in audio or measure how much of a recording was made with it. Title and description filters can make mistakes, so reported errors require review.
Method version: Ranking 2.2 (main list) · music-views-2026-09-27.v2 (genre lists). Polish methodology →