Spotify Stats 2023 — (Latest Facts, Data, Infographics) (2023)

When Spotify first began in 2008, it permanently changed the way people listen to music.

Spotify lets you discover, organize, and share over 100 million songs for free, including over 5 million podcast titles.Its premium subscribers have access to features such as better sound quality, offline downloads, and an ad-free music streaming experience.

Spotify is the world’s leading audio streaming service, with 489 million users and 205 million premium subscribers across 180 regions.

Let us take you through all the possible statistics we could gather so that you will have a clear idea of how far Spotify has come since its launch and how things are looking for the Swedish giant as we are about to wrap up 2022 and enter the first quarter of 2023.

Spotify Statistics: Infographics for 2023

This is our TLDR section for this article. If you wish to know the key statistics related to Spotify for 2023, you will see them here in a nutshell. Allow us to show you — In a graphical way!

What Else Is New On Spotify In 2023

Spotify Audiobooks: Spotify users in the United States can now listen to and download more than 300,000 audiobooks on the platform. This feature wasn’t available to users before September 2022, and it is the first iteration of the audiobook experience for users on Spotify.

Spotify Active Users [Monthly]

According to official data, Spotify has 489 million active users as of the fourth quarter of 2022.

Since 2015, Spotify has shown a sustained (Q-O-Q) increase in the department.

Spotify anticipates that the platform will have 500 million monthly active users by the end of Quarter 1 2023, according to insights released in the shareholder letter of Q4 2022.

A complete breakdown of quarterly growth in Spotify monthly users since Q1, 2015 to Q4, 2022:

Spotify’s Region-wise Active Users Distribution (Monthly)

Spotify’s total Monthly Active Users increased 20% year on year to 489 million in Quarter 4 2022, up from 456 million In Quarter 2 2022. Spotify observed better momentum across the 86 markets in which it was newly introduced, with South Korea, Bangladesh, and Pakistan leading the way.

• Europe accounts for 30% of Spotify’s monthly active users. This translates to around 146.70 million monthly active users.

• Another 42% of Spotify’s MAUs are situated in North and Latin America.

• With 249.39 million monthly active users, Europe and North America account for the bulk (51%) of Spotify’s Active User Base.

Here’s a complete distribution of Spotify’s Monthly Active Users by region:

Spotify Premium Subscribers

Spotify has 205 million premium subscribers globally. This is a 14% year-over-year growth.

Spotify anticipates that by the end of Quarter 1, 2023, it will have around 207 million premium subscribers.

Below is the entire breakdown of Spotify’s Premium subscriber growth since 2015 to Quaretr 4, 2022:

Spotify Revenue

Spotify registered a quarterly revenue of €3,166 million in Q4 2022.

Spotify registered a yearly revenue of €11.727 billion in 2022.

Again, a substantial growth since 2020 (7.88 billion Euros)

Here’s a detailed breakdown of Spotify’s income from 2012 to Q3 2022

Spotify Revenue Through Premium Subscribers

Spotify generates money from two sources: Premium membership fees and ad-supported businesses.

Premium Subscribers helped Spotify generate an income of €2,717 million in Q4 2022.

Below is the complete breakdown of Spotify’s income through Premium members from 2012 to Q4 2022:

Spotify Revenue Through ad-Supported Businesses

Up to Q4 2022, Spotify’s yearly advertisement-supported income is €1.476 billion.

Below is the entire breakdown of Spotify’s ad-supported income from 2012 to Q3 2022:

Spotify controls 33% of the global music streaming market as of 2023.

The market share of Spotify has steadily been between 32% and 43% over the last 5 years.

We’ve listed below Spotify’s market control among paid music streaming consumers from 2015 to 2023:

Spotify Podcast Statistics

Spotify has over 5 million podcasts on the platform.

Spotify ranks 2nd among the podcast platforms in the United States, with 40% of people using it on a regular basis.

Spotify, is the most popular app along with Youtube for podcast listening among Android phone users in the United States, accounting for a 26% share in the market (a 23% increase since 2020).

Spotify is the most popular podcast platform among North American millennials, with 50% being frequent users.

Most Popular Podcasts On Spotify

The Joe Rogan Experience is still the number-one podcast on Spotify worldwide. It is followed by Alex Cooper’s daring “Call Her Daddy.”

Emma Chamberlain’s “Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain” is in the 3rd position, Caso 63, and Crime Junkie finish in the top five Spotify podcasts globally.

Here is the complete list of the top 5 most popular podcasts on Spotify globally:

Spotify’s Most Popular Podcast Genres

Society & Culture is the most listened to podcast genre on Spotify, according to worldwide listeners.

Below are the top 5 most popular podcast genres among Spotify’s worldwide listeners:

The number OfPodcasts Available On Spotify?

Spotify began its podcasting journey three years ago, with a database of over 180,000 episodes. Today, Spotify has over 5 million podcasts on its platform, representing a growth rate of over 1500%. Spotify added 1.2 million podcasts to its library in 2021 alone.

Availability of Spotify Across The globe

Currently, Spotify is accessible in 180 countries. Spotify has grown its presence to 80+ countries since 2020.

Spotify was accessible in only 61 markets globally in 2017.

Between 2018 – 2022, Spotify expanded to 117 new nations.

And still counting!

Geographical Availability of The Spotify App by Platform

The Spotify iOS application is accessible in 157 countries.

Spotify is accessible in 90% of Nations where the iOS application store is available.

Aside from their desktop web player, Spotify Music is now available for download on Roku smart TVs. Spotify is available in all 17 Roku markets.

The Spotify app is accessible in 9 of the 11 markets where the Amazon Application Store is available (Japan & China excluded).

Spotify has its android application available in all 184 markets along with its lite application in 36+ countries.

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How Many Spotify Playlists Are There?

Spotify’s collection has around 4 billion playlists across all genres. Out of which, over 3000 are curated officially by Spotify.

In the year 2020 alone, the music streaming platform added over 1 billion new playlists.

Most Popular Playlists on Spotify

The top 20 most-followed playlists on the platform are all curated by Spotify, out of which 50% are personalized.

Pop music dominates 10 out of the top 20 Spotify playlists, according to the genre.

70% of Spotify’s top 20 most followed playlists are primarily made up of the latest releases.

Below is a list of the top 20 most-followed Spotify playlists as of 2023:

How Many Tracks Are Available On Spotify?

Spotify has 100+ million tracks on the platform in 2023.

Spotify anticipates adding 22 million new tunes by the end of the year. That’s almost a track every second!

Most Popular Artists on Spotify by Monthly Listeners

Currently, The Weeknd is the most-streamed artist on Spotify, with over 98.67 million monthly listeners (As of February 2023).

Most Popular Artists on Spotify by Follower Count

Ed Sheeran is the most followed person on Spotify, with over 106.93 million followers.

Below are the top 20 popular artists on Spotify based on the numberof followers: (All-Time)

Most Streamed Songs on Spotify

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is the most streamed song on Spotify of all time, with 3.424 billion streams as of February 2023.

“Blinding Lights” overtook the long time top place holder “shape of you” by Ed Sheeran in January 2023.

Top 20 most streamed songs of all time:

Below are the most-streamed artists on Spotify over the years:

Bad Bunny is the most streamed artists on spotify for the year 2022. Bad Bunny has been the most streamed artist on spotify for three consecutive years now.

Drake was the most-streamed artist on Spotify for 2 consecutive years, in 2015 and 2016 and then once in 2018. this also brings his tally to being named as the most streamed artist on spotify three times.

Spotify Wrapped Statistics

Spotify successfully launched its 8th annual year-end Spotify Wrapped promotion to consumers in over 180 regions on November 1, 2022.

Millions of active Spotify users accessed 2022 Wrapped.

With approximately over 60 million shares of Wrapped tales and cards, the campaign became a global craze.

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Here are some hilights from Spotify’s 2022 wrapped:

• 40,000 artists recorded a thank you message for their fans for the Spotify wrapped 2022 event.
• Football fans, especially FC Barcelona fans, could enjoy Spotify 2022 Wrapped videos from some of the biggest football players, like Robert Lewandowski, Ansu Fati, Pedri, and Alexia Putellas, as part of the groundbreaking relationship between Spotify and FC Barcelona.
• Spotify Wrapped in Metaverse! With the introduction of Spotify Island earlier in 2022, Spotify isthe first music-streaming company to establish a presence on Roblox. With Spotify Island, theyare now bringing Spotify Wrapped to the metaverse for the first time.

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Shedding some light on Spotify’s Workforce

As per Spotify’s press statement, the firm employs 7,085 full-time workers. Since 2019, the number of employees has increased by 60.8 %

Below is the increase in Spotify’s employee strength since 2011:

As per Spotify, the average yearly salary of an employee in 2019 was €122,814. Since then Spotify’s pay and salary expenditure has climbed by 9.63%.

Acquisitions by Spotify In 2022

Spotify revealed that it acquired a couple of platforms in Q1 of 2022. Both are related to podcasting.

1. Podsights: podcast advertising measurement service that helps advertisers better measure and scale their podcast advertising.
2. Charitable: a podcast advertising measurement service that helps advertisers better measure and scale their podcast advertising.

Spotify made a couple of acquisitions in Q2, 2022 as well. Let us take a look at them:

1. Findaway: It isa platformthat serve writers, publishers, and consumers, Findaway works throughout theaudiobook ecosystem. Their technology will aid Spotify’s entry into the audiobooks business.
2. Sonatic: It is an AI voice platform that generates voices from text. This transaction, which is scheduled to conclude on July 11, 2022, will enable spotifyto create new and distinctive experiences for our users, as well as engage them in new and more tailored ways.

Spotify Partnership with FC Barcelona

Spotify is now a proud sponsor of one of the most successful football clubs in the world.

Spotify had an agreement with the Spanish football club Barcelona. Under this deal, The Camp Nou stadium will be rebranded as Spotify Camp Nou and Spotify’s name will also appear on both the men’s and women’s teams’ jerseys for the next four seasons, beginning with the 2022/23 season.

Ways to Check Your Personal Spotify Statistics

After reading all these statistics, wouldn’t it be fun to take a sneak peek into your own Spotify statistics? There are various ways through which you can do it. We will Demonstrate some of them step by step below.

Checking Spotify Stats on PC or Mac

1. Tap your user profile name in the app’s top right corner.

2. From the drop-down option, choose Profile.

3. Here, you can go through your frequently played artists, tracks, and playlists. You can tap on the “See All” button under any category to see more of the specific stat.

Checking Spotify Stats on Mobile phones

1. Tap on the settings icon in the top right corner of your mobile application. (it will have a look similar to a gear)

2. From the drop-down option, choose Profile.

3. Here, you can go through your frequently played artists, tracks, and playlists. You can tap on the “See All” button under any category to see more of the specific stat.

Checking Spotify stats through Wrapped

Since 2015, Spotify launched its wrapped program for its users in December of each year. In that, users can see their music listening habits and stats for that specific year. You can access the wrapped cards as soon as you enter the mobile or computer application.

It is hard to miss as there are huge banners and cards popping in the app. Be sure to access you’re wrapped this year if you haven’t in previous ones.

Checking Spotify Stats via Third-party applications

Many third-party applications allow you to check your personal Spotify stats. All you have to do is find one such platform that offers this service and sign in to them using your Spotify credentials.

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Conclusion: Spotify Stats 2023

Here it is, all of Spotify since its launch. The data is sourced from multiple sources across the web and might differ but just marginally.

Spotify is set to roll out some exciting features in 2023 for both its users and artists. Look out for them.

Let us know your favorite artists and songs in the comments below. Also, let us know if you have any additional stats about the platform from any other source. We will be happy to update this space. Happy Listening!