'Fallout' TV series causes music streams to double

A number of artists who feature on the soundtrack to Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout have seen their streaming numbers increase dramatically.

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Fallout launched on the steamer earlier this month and The MusicEXP newsletter has been tracking the impact the success of the show has had on the artists who make up the soundtrack.

Using Chartmetric and Spotify, it has been reported that Sheldon Allman’s monthly listeners increased from 88,881 to 184,767 in the week following the launch of Fallout, with the show using his ‘Crawl Out Through The Fallout’ in the first episode.

Jack Shaindlin and Connie Conway also saw an 80 per cent increase in monthly listeners. Shaindlin’s ‘I’m Tickled Pink’ closes out episode six while his ‘Let’s Go Sunnin’’ features in episode four, and Conway has two tracks in Fallout’s season premiere – ‘Who Do You Suppose’ and ‘Brighter Side’.

Legendary artists like Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Johnny Cash have also seen an uptick in Spotify monthly listeners following their inclusion on the Fallout soundtrack. Check out all the numbers here, via The MusicEXP newsletter.

The success of Fallout has also seen a spike in interest in the Fallout games, with Fallout 4 reaching an all-time high of concurrent players over the weekend on Steam. A number of artists who feature on the soundtracks to Fallout 3 and New Vegas have also seen their monthly listeners on Spotify increase since the launch of the TV adaptation.

The soundtrack to Fallout pulls heavily from the 1940s and ‘50s, just like the video games it is based on. “There is no understating how popular this music is with fans,” writes The MusicEXP’s Mat Ombler. “I wanted to highlight the success of this music because I imagine many people in the world of sync wouldn’t associate artists from this era with gamers – but Fallout fans can’t get enough of it.”

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