Spotify's Summer Breeze

An exercise on intuition from minimal data, some product knowledge, and a reasonable understanding of human behavior

Pictured above is a Spotify playlist of Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts, a soft rock duo from the 1970s. Spotify is a large music streaming platform. The playlist's tracks mirror the original vinyl format, without each side noted. Each track includes a track length and a play count. It takes at least thirty seconds to count as a play. Tracks appearing…