Anna’s Archive” claimed it scraped 86 million songs from Spotify—revealing some wild things about people’s favorite music.

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The 86 million tracks represent only about 37 percent of Spotify’s total catalog, but a staggering 99.6 percent of all listen.

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Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.

Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them.