Spotify Stats 2023 (Latest Facts & Data Listed)

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:

Quarter -year	Monthly active users
Quarter 1  – 2015	68  million.
Quarter 2 – 2015	77  million.
Quarter 3 – 2015	82  milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2015	91  milliion.
Quarter 1  – 2016	96  milliion.
Quarter 2  – 2016	104  milliion.
Quarter 3 – 2016	113  milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2016	123  milliion.
Quarter 1  – 2017	132  milliion.
Quarter 2  – 2017	138 milliion.
Quarter 3 – 2017	149 milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2017	160 milliion.
Quarter 1  – 2018	157 milliion.
Quarter 2  – 2018	180 milliion.
Quarter 3  – 2018	191 milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2018	207 milliion.
Quarter 1  – 2019	217 milliion.
Quarter 2  – 2019	232 milliion.
Quarter 3 – 2019	248 milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2019	271 milliion.
Quarter 1  – 2020	286 milliion.
Quarter 2  – 2020	299 milliion.
Quarter 3 – 2020	320 milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2020	345 milliion.
Quarter 1 – 2021	356 milliion.
Quarter 2  –  2021	365 milliion.
Quarter 3 – 2021	381 milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2021	406 milliion.
Quarter 1 – 2022	422 milliion.
Quarter 2 – 2022	433 milliion.
Quarter 3 – 2022	456 milliion.
Quarter 4 – 2022	489 million.
Quarter 1 – 2023	500 milion.

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:

Region	Share of Monthly Active Users
Europe	30%
North America (USA & Canada)	21%
Latin America	21%
Rest of the world	28%

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:

Quarter, Year	Paying Subscribers
Quarter 1 – 2015	18 million.
Quarter 2 – 2015	22 million.
Quarter 3 – 2015	24 million.
Quarter 4 – 2015	28 million.
Quarter 1 – 2016	30 million.
Quarter 2 – 2016	36 million.
Quarter 3 – 2016	40 million.
Quarter 4 – 2016	48 million.
Quarter 1 – 2017	52 million.
Quarter 2 – 2017	59 million.
Quarter 3 – 2017	62 million.
Quarter 4 – 2017	71 million.
Quarter 1 – 2018	75 million.
Quarter 2 – 2018	83 million.
Quarter 3 – 2018	87 million.
Quarter 4 – 2018	96 million.
Quarter 1 – 2019	100 million.
Quarter 2 – 2019	108 million.
Quarter 3 – 2019	113 million.
Quarter 4 – 2019	124 million.
Quarter 1 – 2020	130 million.
Quarter 2 – 2020	138 million.
Quarter 3 – 2020	144 million.
Quarter 4 – 2020	155 million.
Quarter 1 – 2021	158 million.
Quarter 2 – 2021	165 million.
Quarter 3 – 2021	172 million.
Quarter 4 – 2021	180 million.
Quarter 1 – 2022	182 million.
Quarter 2 – 2022	188 million.
Quarter 3 – 2022	195 million.
Quarter 4 – 2022	205 million.
Quarter 1 – 2023	207 million.

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

Year	Revenue (in €)
2009	13.36 million.
2010	73.9 million.
2011	187.8 million.
2012	430.1 million.
2013	746 million.
2014	1.08 billion.
2015	1.94 billion.
2016	2.95 billion.
2017	4.09 billion.
2018	5.26 billion.
2019	6.76 billion.
2020	7.88 billion.
2021	9.67 billion.
2022	11.72 billion.

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:

Year	Revenue (in €)
2012	374.6 million.
2013	677.89 million
2014	982.7 million.
2015	1.74 billion.
2016	2.657 billion
2017	3.67 billion.
2018	4.717 billion.
2019	6.086 billion.
2020	7.13 billion.
2021	8.46 billion.
2022	10.25 billion.

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:

Year	Revenue (in €)
2012	55.5 million.
2013	68.16 million.
2014	102 million.
2015	196 million.
2016	295 million.
2017	416 million.
2018	542 million.
2019	678 million.
2020	745 million.
2021	1.208 billion.
2022	1.476 billion

Spotify Market Share

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:

Year	Market share
2015	41.2%
2016	42.8%
2017	40.3%
2018	42.7%
2019	36.4%
2020	32.5%
2021	32%
2022	31%
2023	33%

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 Of Podcasts 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:

Playlist	Followers count
Today’s Top Hits	31,049,432
Global Top 50	16,840,181
RapCaviar	14,476,542
¡Viva Latino!	11,821,940
Baila Reggaeton	10,470,805
Rock Classics (personalized)	10,347,963
All Out 2000s (personalized)	10,036,031
Songs to Sing in the Car (personalized)	10,002,097
All Out 80s (personalized)	9,459,031
Beast Mode (personalized)	8,972,274
All Out 90s (personalized)	7,249,014
Chill Hits (personalized)	7,226,944
Mood Booster (personalized)	7,146,530
Hot Country	6,801,828
I Love My ’90s Hip-Hop	6,754,070
Songs to Sing in the Shower	6,708,128
lofi hip hop music – beats to relax/study to	6,549,264
This Is BTS	6,533,981
Peaceful Piano	6,519,606
Esquenta Sertanejo	6,393,730

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).

Rank	Artist	Monthly Listeners
1	The Weeknd	98.67 million
2	Miley Cyrus	84.83 million
3	Taylor Swift	80.26 million
4	Rihanna	78.06 million
5	Ed Sheeran	77.70 million
6	Shakira	77.10 million
7	Sam Smith	74.75 million
8	David Guetta	71.89 million
9	SZA	69.05 million
10	Drake	68.77 million
11	justin Bieber	67.87 million
12	Eminem	67.85 million
13	Harry Styles	66.13 million
14	Bad Bunny	64.34 million
15	Dua Lipa	62.68 million
16	Calvin Harris	61.35 million
17	21 Savage	61.30 million
18	Coldplay	60.95 million
19	Bruno Mars	58.82 million
20	Imagine Dragons	58.31 million

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 number of followers: (All-Time)

Rank	Artist	Followers
1	Ed Sheeran	109,713,595
2	Ariana Grande	87,979,938
3	Billie Eilish	76,699,684
4	Drake	72,127,785
5	Justin Bieber	70,054,390
6	Arijit Singh	70,129,251
7	Taylor Swift	68,307,149
8	Eminem	66,376,724
9	Bad Bunny	64,889,980
10	BTS	61,515,254
11	The Weeknd	59,025,569
12	Rihanna	53,074,315
13	Adele	46,494,556
14	Bruno Mars	46,495,102
15	Imagine Dragons	45,768,282
16	Queen	45,388,592
17	Coldplay	42,040,045
18	Shawn Mendes	40,878,653
19	XXXTentacion	40,479,677
20	Selena Gomez	40,214,214

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:

Rank	Song	Streams (billion)	Artist(s)
1	“Blinding Lights”	3.424	The Weeknd
2	“Shape of You”	3.384	Ed Sheeran
3	“Dance Monkey”	2.761	Tones And I
4	“Someone You Loved”	2.661	Lewis Capaldi
5	“Rockstar”	2.610	Post Malone featuring 21 Savage
6	“Sunflower”	2.561	Post Malone and Swae Lee
7	“One Dance”	2.542	Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla
8	“Closer”	2.471	The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey
9	“Stay”	2.408	The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber
10	“Believer”	2.394	Imagine Dragons
11	“Señorita”	2.354	Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello
12	“Perfect”	2.342	Ed Sheeran
13	“Heat Waves”	2.298	Glass Animals
14	“Say You Won’t Let Go”	2.254	James Arthur
15	“Starboy”	2.226	The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk
16	“Bad Guy”	2.215	Billie Eilish
17	“Thinking Out Loud”	2.168	Ed Sheeran
18	“Lucid Dreams”	2.166	Juice WRLD
19	“Don’t Start Now”	2.157	Dua Lipa
20	“Lovely”	2.139	Billie Eilish & Khalid

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.

Year	1st Position	2nd Position	3rd Position	4th Position	5th Position
2013	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Avicii	Daft Punk	Eminem	Imagine Dragons
2014	Ed Sheeran)	Eminem	Coldplay	Calvin Harris	Katy Perry
2015	Drake	Ed Sheeran	The Weeknd	Maroon 5	Kanye West
2016	Drake	Justin Bieber	Rihanna	Twenty One Pilots	Kanye West
2017	Ed Sheeran	Drake	The Weeknd	Kendrick Lamar	The Chainsmokers
2018	Drake	Post Malone	XXXTentacion	J Balvin	Ed Sheeran
2019	Post Malone	Billie Eilish	Ariana Grande	Ed Sheeran	Bad Bunny
2020	Bad Bunny	Drake	J Balvin	Juice Wrld	The Weeknd
2021	Bad Bunny	Taylor Swift	BTS	Drake	Justin Bieber
2022	Bad Bunny	Taylore Swift	Drake	The Weeknd	BTS

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 is the first music-streaming company to establish a presence on Roblox. With Spotify Island, they are 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:

Year	Number of employees
2011	311
2013	958
2014	1,365
2015	1,581
2016	2,162
2017	2,960
2018	3,651
2019	4,405
2020	6,554
2021	7,085

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 is a platform that serve writers, publishers, and consumers, Findaway works throughout the audiobook 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 spotify to 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!