#Spotify account overview update#

“The single largest mechanism through which music was streamed was ‘user curated’ playlists at 42%.” “Around 20% of streams were from playlists provided by the streaming service (as opposed to playlists created by the user themselves) and a further 11% of streams were delivered through autoplay functions on streaming services or ‘stations/radio’ provided by streaming services,” it explains. Later they thought out a portmanteau of 'spot' and 'identify'. 14 15 According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. (Caveat: if the latter two are closer to the top end of the 5-10% range shown in the table, and the former two closer to the bottom of their 10-20% range, it may not be such a big difference.)īesides this individual breakdown, the CMA’s report provides a summary of this data across all streaming services too. Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, 13 by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. YouTube Music has a much bigger chunk of algotorial streams than the other three, while editorial takes a slightly bigger share of streams on Apple and Amazon’s services than on Spotify or YouTube Music. Amazon Music has a lot more streams coming from its stations/radio features than the other streaming services.

Spotify has a much higher percentage of user-curated streams, with its three rivals indexing much higher on non-playlist streams. Here’s the table (if you’re on a device where it isn’t displaying, you can also find it here): It divides streams into six categories: editorial (playlists curated by humans at the service) algotorial (playlists curated by algorithms) station/radio (their radio-like features) autoplay (tracks that automatically play when a playlist finishes, served up by an algorithm) user curated (playlists made by listeners and other curators who don’t work at the service) and non-playlist (everything else). The table is based on the CMA’s analysis of data provided by four streaming services: Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music and Amazon Music. On the next screen, you will see the option to change your. In settings, click on the ‘View profile’ button, which is right below your profile picture and your display name. Go to the top right corner and click on the settings icon. So while it’s UK-only, the data is sure to be of wider interest. Open the Spotify app on your mobile and click on the ‘Home’ icon. They’re in a table on page 44 of the report which breaks down “streams on playlist type as a % of UK streams by music streaming service in 2021”.

#Spotify account overview update#

Tags: Amazon Music Apple Music CMA Playlists Spotify YouTube YouTube MusicĪ fascinating question, eh? And thanks to t his morning’s update report from UK competition regulator the CMA, we now have some answers.