Worship Songs 2026: church-playlist adoption across 825 churches

An observed-data dataset of which worship songs churches actually sing, measured from the real, church-curated Spotify worship playlists of 825 churches across 31 countries. A church is counted as singing a song when the track appears in one of its worship playlists. No survey, no AI-inferred labels. Companion report and methodology: https://gospelchannel.com/worship-songs-2026 Selection bias: every church here publishes a Spotify worship playlist, so the sample skews contemporary, English-speaking, and Protestant, with most churches in the US and UK. It is a map of the modern-worship repertoire, not a census of all churches. License: CC-BY-4.0.