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The Beatles have 29 albums listed on Spotify, including compilations and deluxe versions. John Lennon has 20 albums on Spotify, including compilations and deluxe versions. The lower number of solo John Lennon releases available to stream matches the lower monthly streams.
However, Morrissey has double the number of Spotify available albums of The Smiths (22 solo albums compared with 11 albums by The Smiths) yet his solo material garners less than half of the monthly listeners of The Smiths.
Anybody that knows anything about music will tell you that sales or the amount of listeners in this case is determined by popularity promotion and quality of the music. Both the Beatles and The Smiths have a much wider appeal by virtue of these three factors.