PANAMA PLAYLISTS
I found the real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists. Many use their real names. With a little investigating, I could say with near-certainty: yep, this is that person.
I’ve been scraping their playlists for over a year. Some individuals even have a setting enabled that displays their last played song. I scraped this continuously, so I know what songs they played, how many times, and when.
The Panama Papers revealed hidden bank accounts. This reveals hidden tastes.
Not affiliated with Spotify or any of the featured individuals. Album art and song previews from iTunes. Published July 29, 2025.
JD Vance
U.S. Vice President
From his playlist, Making Dinner
I Want It That Way
Backstreet Boys
One Time
Justin Bieber
From his playlist, Gold On The Ceiling
What Makes You Beautiful
One Direction
San Francisco
The Mowgli's
Get Lucky
Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers
You Are a Tourist
Death Cab for Cutie
Karoline Leavitt
White House Press Secretary
From her playlist, Baby Shower đź’™
Run the World (Girls)
Beyoncé
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper
A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Shaboozey
I Hope You Dance
Lee Ann Womack
Mom
Meghan Trainor
Put Your Records On
Corinne Bailey Rae
Respect
Aretha Franklin
Mike Johnson
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
From his liked tracks on Pandora
The Parachutes
Jerry Goldsmith
Peace
David Tolk
One Night Love Affair
Bryan Adams
All Through the Night
Cyndi Lauper
Can't Help Falling In Love
Chris Isaak
Finding Nemo / Nemo Egg (From "Finding Nemo")
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Don't You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds
May It Be
Enya
Pam Bondi
U.S. Attorney General
From her playlist, Pam
Hot In Herre
Nelly
Cold As Ice
Foreigner
Hello
Adele
Kill Em With Kindness
Selena Gomez
Hands to Myself
Selena Gomez
Shout Out to My Ex
Little Mix
I Gotta Feeling
Black Eyed Peas
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
Yeah!
USHER, Lil Jon, Ludacris
Slow Burn
Kacey Musgraves
Cooler Than Me
Mike Posner
Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor
From his playlist, Hodge-podge mix
Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
Piano Man
Billy Joel
Life Is a Highway
Rascal Flatts
Take On Me
a-ha
Party In the U.S.A.
Miley Cyrus
Life's Been Good
Joe Walsh
Voulez-Vous
ABBA
Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO
From his playlist, My Shazam Tracks
Good Lookin'
Dixon Dallas
Until the Sun Needs To Rise
RĂśFĂśS DU SOL
I Don't Wanna Wait
David Guetta, OneRepublic
Get Ur Freak On
Missy Elliott
Blame It on Me
George Ezra
Machi
Peia
Sam Bankman-Fried
FTX Founder
Palmer Luckey
Anduril Co-Founder
From his playlist, Best Music Ever
Ultimate
Lindsay Lohan
Since U Been Gone
Kelly Clarkson
So Yesterday
Hilary Duff
Bye Bye Bye
*NSYNC
A Thousand Miles
Vanessa Carlton
Sk8er Boi
Avril Lavigne
Marc Andreessen
Andreessen Horowitz
From his playlist, Go The Fuck To Sleep
You Look Good To Me
Oscar Peterson Trio
I Have Dreamed
Christian McBride Trio
Reach Out and Touch It
Tord Gustavsen Trio
From his playlist, Focus Alpha
System One
Makeup and Vanity Set
Sneaking Suspicions
OGRE Sound
Imagine the Fire
Hans Zimmer
Billions and Billions
Stellardrone
Seth Meyers
Late Night Host
From his playlist, Porch Jams
Vibe so Hot
Benji Hughes
The Fuse
Jackson Browne
Can't Let Go
Lucinda Williams
Chuck E's in Love
Rickie Lee Jones
Touch of Grey
The War on Drugs
Al Roker
NBC Weatherman
#1 song past year (151 plays)
Philadelphia Freedom
Elton John
#2 song past year (75 plays)
Are You Ready for Love
Elton John
#3 song past year (70 plays)
Nowhere to Run
Lola Colette
Pete Buttigieg
Former U.S. Secretary of Transporation
From his playlist, Election Eve
Retrograde
James Blake
Hakeem Jeffries
Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives
From his playlist, Galentines
Bad Girls
M.I.A.
We Found Love
Rihanna, Calvin Harris
Best I Ever Had
Drake
Hollaback Girl
Gwen Stefani
Always On Time
Ja Rule, Ashanti
Diva
Beyoncé
Love
Keyshia Cole
Dan Crenshaw
U.S. Congressman from Texas
From his playlist, 40th BDAY
Pursuit of Happiness
Steve Aoki, Kid Cudi, MGMT, Ratatat
Million Voices
Otto Knows
Ni**as in Paris
JAY-Z, Kanye West
Anything Could Happen
Ellie Goulding
All Night
Icona Pop
Paper Planes
M.I.A.
Black Dress (Anyma Remix)
070 Shake, Anyma
Unholy
Sam Smith, Kim Petras
Daniel Lurie
San Francisco Mayor
From his playlist, My Peloton Music
This Is America
Childish Gambino
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones
Fix You
Coldplay
Wake Me Up
Avicii
Mr. Jones
Counting Crows
Power
Kanye West
Summer Girls
LFO
Intergalactic
Beastie Boys
Chamath Palihapitiya
All-In Podcast
From his playlist, work!
0 To 100 / The Catch Up
Drake
Cheap Thrills
Sia
Trophies
Young Money, Drake
Believer
Imagine Dragons
Chris LaCivita
Trump 2024 Campaign Manager
From his playlist, Indiana Jones
Children In Chains
John Williams
The Temple of Doom
John Williams
Indy's Very First Adventure
John Williams
Ah, Rats!!!
John Williams
Slave Children's Crusade
John Williams
Ants!
John Williams
Adam Mosseri
Instagram CEO
From his playlist, Hang
July
Noah Cyrus, Leon Bridges
River
Leon Bridges
Strangers
The Kinks
Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding
Mr. Lonely
Bobby Vinton
Brian Armstrong
Coinbase CEO
Marc Benioff
Salesforce CEO
From his playlist, High Energy Party
Let's Get Retarded
Black Eyed Peas
Billionaire
Travie McCoy, Bruno Mars
Poker Face
Lady Gaga
California Gurls
Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg
Hawaiian Boogie
Dave Hole
Andrej Karpathy
OpenAI Co-Founder
#1 song past year (17 plays)
La La La
Nicolas Julian
#2 song past year (15 plays)
Prada
cassö, RAYE, D-Block Europe
#3 song past year (15 plays)
Let's Go
Jaden Bojsen, David Guetta
Ilya Sutskever
SSI CEO
From his playlist, il
Ant Na Siftee
White Sun
Invincible
TOOL
eye-water
Hiroyuki Sawano
Adagio for Strings and Organ in G Minor
Berlin Philharmonic, David Bell, Herbert von Karajan, Leon Spierer
Toccata
David Garrett
Nothing Else Matters
Metallica
Uprising
Muse
Lose Yourself
Eminem
Ben Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz
From his playlist, Good times
Between the Sheets
The Isley Brothers
Sweet Love
Anita Baker
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
Whip Appeal (12-inch Version)
Babyface
Quiet Storm
Smokey Robinson
Patrick Collison
Stripe CEO
From his playlist, 80s
I'm So Excited
The Pointer Sisters
Bennie and the Jets
Elton John
Oh Sherrie
Steve Perry
Bad Girls (Gigamesh Remix)
Donna Summer
Jason Calacanis
All-In Podcast
From his playlist, My Shazam Tracks
Another Day in Paradise
Quinn XCII
Jacob Helberg
Nominee for U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth
#1 song past year (56 plays)
Apple
Charli xcx
#2 song past year (48 plays)
Femininomenon
Chappell Roan
#3 song past year (40 plays)
Diet Pepsi
Addison Rae
From his playlist, Political mojo
Don't Stop
Glee Cast
God Bless The U.S.A.
Lee Greenwood
Under Pressure
Queen, David Bowie
Party In the U.S.A.
Miley Cyrus
She Wolf
Shakira
The Bitch Is Back
Elton John
American Boy
Estelle, Kanye West
Dylan Field
Figma CEO
From his playlist, My Peloton Music
Busy Earnin'
Jungle
Wannabe
Spice Girls
Better Now
Post Malone
The Real Slim Shady
Eminem
Dara Khosrowshahi
Uber CEO
From his playlist, My Peloton Music
Switch Up
Big Sean, Common
Don't Push Me
50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Eminem
HOT TO GO!
Chappell Roan
Sports car
Tate McRae
love is embarrassing
Olivia Rodrigo
Kashmir Hill
The New York Times privacy and technology reporter
From her playlist, writing music
Wake Up and Go Beserk
Mogwai
I Do Have Weapons
Mogwai
Truth (Helios Remix)
Balmorhea
Herstory Of Glory
Do Make Say Think
Avril 14th
Aphex Twin
Natural Cause
Emancipator
Some
Nils Frahm
Mike Isaac
The New York Times technology reporter
#1 song past year (139 plays)
Huggin & Kissin
Big Black Delta
#2 song past year (93 plays)
Exits
Foals
#3 song past year (38 plays)
I Remember
Saint Saviour
Casey Newton
Platformer writer
#1 song past year (18 plays)
All You Children
Jamie xx, The Avalanches
#2 song past year (13 plays)
Fame is a Gun
Addison Rae
#3 song past year (10 plays)
Nettles
Ethel Cain
Taylor Lorenz
Internet personality
From her playlist, Favs
Just Breathe (Live)
Pearl Jam
You Can Get It If You Really Want
Jimmy Cliff
Take a Bow
Rihanna
Golden Age of Radio
Josh Ritter
Romeo and Juliet
Dire Straits
Work
Charlotte Day Wilson
Jeffrey Goldberg
The Atlantic editor-in-chief
Added to his playlist Dead Etc. the same day his Signal group chat story was published
Sundown
Gordon Lightfoot
Jessica Lessin
The Information editor-in-chief
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Joanna Stern
Wall Street Journal technology columnist
From her playlist, Forty Fucking Years
Don't Stop Believin'
Journey
Don't Dream It's Over
Sixpence None the Richer
Jump
Van Halen
Ride Wit Me
Nelly, City Spud
Fight Song
Rachel Platten
Yann LeCun
Meta Chief AI Scientist
From his playlist, A jouer (alto)
Agua De Beber (LP Version)
AntĂ´nio Carlos Jobim
Black Nile
Wayne Shorter
Chief Crazy Horse
Wayne Shorter
Infant Eyes
Wayne Shorter
Delian Asparouhov
Founders Fund
#1 song past year (98 plays)
Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival
#2 song past year (86 plays)
Not Fair
Niklas Dee, Old Jim, Enny-Mae
#3 song past year (80 plays)
California
I Said Yes
Garry Tan
Y Combinator CEO
#1 song past year (18 plays)
Witches
Alice Phoebe Lou
#2 song past year (17 plays)
Ghostride
Crumb
#3 song past year (15 plays)
Locket
Crumb
Keith Rabois
Khosla Ventures
From his playlist, barrys september
When the Summer Dies
deadmau5, Lights
Bad Bees
Quintino, Harrison First
Roots
Valerie Broussard, Galantis
Sweet Escape
Alesso, Sirena
John Coogan
TBPN Host
From his playlist, Immortal
The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
Everything Is Going to Be Okay
Mick Gordon
Hero
Family of the Year
Jesus Walks
Kanye West
Be Free
Twelve Titans Music
Jordi Hays
TBPN Host
From his playlist, No Cap
GOD DID
DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z
Ishkabibble's
Westside Gunn, Black Thought
Ok Ok
Kanye West
SORRY NOT SORRY
DJ Khaled, Nas, JAY-Z, James Fauntleroy
In A Minute
Lil Baby
Middle of the Ocean
Drake
Nikita Bier
X Head of Product
From his playlist, Summer
Special Re: Quest
Daedelus
Konichiwa
Donny Benét
Expressing What Matters
Disclosure
Casio
Jungle
Crushed Ice
Mam
Rashida Tlaib
U.S. Congresswoman from Michigan
From her playlist, In love
I'm a Mess
Ed Sheeran
Stay with Me
Sam Smith
Higher Love
James Vincent McMorrow
Ocean
Lady A
we'll be fine
Luz
Gabe Amo
U.S. Congressman from Rhode Island
From his playlist, My playlist #193
Split Screen Sadness
John Mayer
Runaway
Kanye West, Pusha T
My Life
Mary J. Blige
Song Cry
JAY-Z
EARFQUAKE
Tyler, The Creator
Yassamin Ansari
U.S. Congresswoman from Arizona
#1 song past year (13 plays)
Risk
Gracie Abrams
#2 song past year (12 plays)
Blessings
Calvin Harris, Clementine Douglas
#3 song past year (11 plays)
That’s So True
Gracie Abrams
Suhas Subramanyam
U.S. Congressman from Virginia
From his playlist, Indie
Chasing Cars
Snow Patrol
Live and Die
The Avett Brothers
Skinny Love
Bon Iver
Lucky
Jason Mraz, Colbie Caillat
Let Her Go
Passenger
Shomari Figures
U.S. Congressman from Alabama
From his playlist, My Shazam Tracks
Name
The Goo Goo Dolls
DtMF
Bad Bunny
HOP OUT CHO FEELINS
Kal Banx, Smino, Buddy
In Between
6LACK, Banks
Unholy War
Jacob Banks
Icon
Jaden
Go to Town
Doja Cat
Shaun Maguire
Sequoia
From his playlist, good music
Windowlicker
Aphex Twin
lift me from the ground
San Holo, Sofie Winterson
Tuesday
Burak Yeter, Danelle Sandoval
Firefly
Mura Masa, Nao