Spotify Premium users in US get Audiobook access
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Spotify Premium users in US get Audiobook access

Spotify Premium users in US are to get Audiobook access for up to 15 hours per month as part of their subscription plan. They now join those in the UK and Australia who received this upgrade in October 2023. At launch there were 150,000 audiobooks available in this plan upgrade but this has now been increased to over 200.000. Fifteen hours should get you around two average audiobooks per month, but if you do hit the limit, […]

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023
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Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023 according to Spotify’s annual Gen Z trend report – Culture Next Volume 05. The report based on an international survey of Gen Z (15-24) Spotify users as well as their Millennial (25-40) counterparts in June 2023. In the first half of 2023, Gen Z listened to over 560 Bn songs and more than 3 Bn podcast episodes — a 76% increase over […]

Spotify Premium users to get Audiobook access
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Spotify Premium users to get Audiobook access

Spotify Premium users are to get Audiobook access for up to 15 hours per month as part of their subscription plan. The offer is slightly caveated as only Premium subscribers as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts will be eligible and only for users in the UK and Australia. Subscribers in the US are expected to be added later this year. Over 150,000 audiobooks will be available in this offering. 10-hour top […]

Spotify creates daylist – an ever-changing playlist
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Spotify creates daylist – an ever-changing playlist

Spotify creates daylist – an ever-changing playlist that is personalised to a user’s listening habits and which updates multiple times a day. According to a recent blog post from the streamer, ‘This new, one-of-a-kind playlist on Spotify ebbs and flows with unique vibes, bringing together the niche music and microgenres you usually listen to during particular moments in the day or on specific days of the week. It updates frequently between sunup and sundown with […]

Spotify launches Reels Charts
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Spotify launches Reels Charts

Spotify launches Reels Charts in a collaboration with Instagram to release Reels Charts for the first time in Brazil and Mexico, where the world’s most fervent music consumers are, according to IFPI. According to a recent blog post by the streamer, ‘The brand-new Reels Chart will showcase the 50 most popular songs from Instagram Reels each week. It will live as playlists on Spotify in Mexico and Brazil and feature the most popular tracks in the Instagram Reels universe. […]

Spotify’s desktop gets a new look
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Spotify’s desktop gets a new look

Spotify’s desktop gets a new look with with redesigned Your Library and Now Playing views giving a better way to explore, curate, listen to, and organize Spotify on a computer or web browser. The main content area remains unchanged but the new additions will help to align their Desktop experience with the mobile app. On the left-hand side of the app window, they have anchored the new Your Library so you can quickly access your […]

Spotify adds 11 more languages to its apps
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Spotify adds 11 more languages to its apps

Spotify adds 11 more languages to its apps including UK English, Spanish and Arabic variants bringing the total number of languages on Spotify to 74. This is in addition to the 27 languages they launched with and the 36 languages they rolled out in 2021. Spotify’s mobile app will now also support: Spanish – Argentina Spanish – Mexico Traditional Chinese – Hong Kong Arabic – Egypt Arabic – Saudi Arabia Basque Bosnian English – UK Galician Macedonian […]