There are some statistics you expect to change quite quickly. Football league tables move around, the weather changes by the hour and Spotify listening figures can rise and fall without much warning. Yet one thing seems remarkably consistent: Nuuk in Greenland is still the place in the world where more people are listening to my music than anywhere else.

At first, I assumed this was some kind of statistical oddity. Perhaps one exceptionally determined person in Nuuk had accidentally left one of my albums playing on repeat for several days. Maybe a café had added one of my songs to a playlist and never got around to taking it off. Whatever the explanation, I expected somewhere else to take over eventually. That has not happened. Nuuk is still sitting there at the top, stubbornly refusing to give up its position.

By now, I think we have to consider the possibility that something is actually happening there. Perhaps my music has somehow become part of the daily routine in Nuuk. Coffee, breakfast, check the weather, put on Sean Kearns. Maybe there is a taxi driver driving around the city with one of my albums permanently playing, or perhaps an office somewhere has discovered that productivity improves considerably when my songs are on quietly in the background.

There is, of course, another person who has shown rather a lot of interest in Greenland over the years: Donald Trump. The US president has repeatedly talked about Greenland and about the strategic importance of the island, while Greenlandic leaders have repeatedly stressed that Greenland is not for sale. That does create a rather wonderful comparison from my point of view, because while Donald Trump has spent years trying to win Greenland over, I seem to have achieved a small foothold in Nuuk simply by uploading songs to Spotify.

To be clear, I am not claiming ownership of anything. I do not want the land, the minerals, the military bases or any involvement whatsoever in Arctic geopolitics. I am perfectly happy with a few people in Nuuk continuing to listen to my music. Frankly, that feels like a much simpler arrangement.

I do like the idea, though, of Donald Trump somehow being shown my Spotify statistics and asking how I managed it. No negotiations, no diplomatic meetings, no international summits, no maps spread across a conference table. I just recorded some songs and put them online. If only international diplomacy always worked like that.

The truth is that this is one of the strange and rather lovely things about releasing music independently. You genuinely have no idea where it is going to travel. A song can be written and recorded in one small part of the world, uploaded to the internet and somehow end up in the headphones of someone thousands of miles away. Then another person listens, and another, and before long you are looking at your statistics wondering why Nuuk is outperforming places you would have thought much more likely.

I still have no idea what Nuuk hears in my music that the rest of the world apparently does not, but I am increasingly reluctant to question it. Whatever is happening there, I would simply like it to continue.

So, once again, thank you Nuuk. You are still number one.

And Donald Trump?

He may have spent years trying to win Greenland over.

I only needed Spotify.