**Guest post from Chartmetric as featured in their reports.

 

 

 

"Spotify has become the go-to music streaming platform for listeners across the globe. The artists that Chartmetric track had a combined total of 61.4 billion listeners and 23.4 billion followers. These counts are non-unique, more information is available in the methodology section [at the bottom of this page].
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Of the 11 million Spotify profiles tracked on Chartmetric, only 1.58 million (14%) have more than 10 listeners from month to month - emphasizing just how much the platform is utilized by undiscovered artists. From this 1.58 million, 37% have more than 1,000 monthly listeners.
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An early appeal of Spotify was the ability to create your own playlists and users continue to love that feature. Chartmetric tracks 26.4 million Spotify playlists, including an addition of 6.8 million new playlists this year."

 

 

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