Are Spotify monthly listeners fake news? - /mu/ (#127257473) [Archived: 475 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:51:19 AM No.127257473
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I'm clicking on literal who's? and they all are "20 million monthly listeners." Or is that a low number and I'm just out of touch or something.
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:52:38 AM No.127257486
>>127257473 (OP)
theres 8 billion humans on earth
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:54:26 AM No.127257490
>>127257486
Yeah, but Spotify has 640 million monthly listeners.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 10:53:37 AM No.127260160
>>127257473 (OP)
Probably less than that now they deleted the Spotify Premium APKs,
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 10:57:18 AM No.127260183
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I used to get rec'd good music in this thing.
Now the algo is just way too fucked, once I even found "not like us" (a (c)rap song) in Attracted To You's radio (a neo-disco song).
Definitely there's a lot of botting happening too.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 11:10:49 AM No.127260281
>>127257473 (OP)
It’s a fuzzy metric of tracking listeners and not a good gauge of how many actual fans an artist has
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 11:46:41 AM No.127260515
>>127257473 (OP)
All one of those "literal who's" needs is a single song on an algorithmically generated playlist and millions of users who mindlessly listen to what the app serves up for them will be counted as a "monthly listener".
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 2:03:46 PM No.127261053
Yeah it depends on if you get featured on good playlists and large youtube channels. I'm a noname synthwave artist and I have several tracks with 1 million+ plays on Spotify.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 3:50:58 PM No.127261679
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>>127257473 (OP)
"listener" means "heard at least 30 seconds of 1 song in the last month", it has no value except to boost artist numbers during promotional pushes (when songs are added to playlists), the only valuable metrics are followers and streams
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 3:55:28 PM No.127261708
youre just out of touch also countries outside of america canada and the uk exist
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Anonymous
8/2/2025, 3:59:12 PM No.127261725
>>127261708
>countries outside of america canada and the uk exist
I do not recognize these said countries. They are meaningless to me.
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 4:53:21 PM No.127262026
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>>127261679
Sombr is having an sold out tour. Meds now.