This is plausible in either direction. I once turned down the volume for a streaming service one evening probably to talk to a friend. The playlist played thro

This is plausible in either direction. I once turned down the volume for a streaming service one evening probably to talk to a friend. The playlist played through the night and well into the next evening. Depending on the playlist, some tracks could have gotten 15+ plays due to absent-mindedness. I can definitely see a music critic putting together short playlists (e.g. 3 songs) for work on a specific album, article, or project. 3 songs at 3.5 minutes each in a playlist would take 10.5 minutes to play and loop 5.714 per hour. You could get 96 plays out of all 3 tracks by continuously looping the playlist 16.8 times. Again, I'm not saying the numbers aren't inflated, but it's possible for some of these to be false-positives.