Question about monthly listener stats

[Dametree]

How does the Artist monthly listeners stats work? Example, If I get 2000 listeners the first month and and 1000 listeners the 2nd month, does it do average 1500? or would it now be 3000 listeners?

[MattSuda]

Hey @Dametree

I don't think Spotify has released any information about that yet.

In September they did announce the new page, but did not say much about how the stats were calculated:

https://news.spotify.com/2015/09/17/say-hello-to-the-new-about-page/

[DonSolare]

Did you have already requested access to Fans Insights? 

https://artists.spotify.com/faninsights

It turns clear that Spotify calculates in time-windows. Last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 28 days (a moon month so to say).

The time window moves "one day at a time"

So in your example you will have 2000 listeners first and 1000 later. not 1500, not 3000. Just 1000. The current number of listeners.

But don't forget that "listeners" and "plays" are not the same thing.

Listeners are different persons listening to your music

Play is how many times your tracks are played.

The amount of Listeners is a measure of that artist's popularity.

The amount of Plays increase the statistic (and royalties)

The amount of listeners oscilates

The amount of plays is ALWAYS accumulative

For instance,

case A) one single person listens 100 times your tracks

case B) 100 different persons listen once your tracks

In case A), you have 1 listener and 100 plays

In case B) you have 100 listeners and 100 plays

Popularity of artist in case B is much larger than in case A.

This explains also why often the most popular track is not the one with more plays. You find this phenomen in loads of artists

warmly - Juan María

[user-removed]

How can I get the artists list of global rank based on monthly listeners?

[DonSolare]

@user-removed i receive every week such a mail.

I don't care too much since it is only the top 40 and i am possibly among the top 4.000.000 ... 

Suggestion: go to your favorite artists and check them.

[Stromo]

Was your reference to fan insights the info that is featured in the Spotify for Artists app? 

[sjm_]

You can check Spotify followers and monthly listeners on a site like Chartmetric (https://chartmetric.io), which pulls data from Spotify's public API.

[meahtenoha · Accepted solution]

Hey there,

For this question about your Artist Profile I would contact the Spotify for Artists team here: https://artists.spotify.com/contact