Spotify statistics as a leading audio streaming platform in 2025
Around 75% of worldwide internet users aged 16 and above listen to music and other audio programs through digital streaming services each week, averaging 3.02 listening days per week.
Among all audio streaming platforms, Spotify remains the leading audio streaming platform in 2025, with 713 million monthly active users as of September 30, 2025, who use it to discover, consume, and engage with audio content.
Spotify operating environment
The global digital music and audio services industry has a total revenue of about €41.12 billion as of the third quarter of 2025.
As one of the top leading platforms in the industry, Spotify has consistently captured the largest share of this segment over the years.
Total global audio streaming revenue vs Spotify revenue
Source: Spotify, DataReportal
Spotify having a total revenue of €12.655 billion after the first 9 months of 2025, an increase of €1.224 billion compared to the revenue of the same period in the previous year, clearly projects that earnings will continue to rise.
Spotify total revenue from 2020 to Q3 2025
| Year | Spotify revenue (EUR €) |
| 2020 | 7.880 billion |
| 2021 | 9.668 billion |
| 2022 | 11.727 billion |
| 2023 | 13.247 billion |
| 2024 | 15.673 billion |
| Up to Q3 2025 | 12.655 billion ⁕ |
This revenue growth of Spotify shows the rise of smartphone usage expanding emerging markets thus the continuous rise of revenue generation through the years.
Source:Spotify
Spotify primarily generates this revenue from premium subscriptions and ad-supported accounts which together contributes to this top financial performance in the audio streaming industry.
Spotify premium vs ad-supported revenue from 2020 to Q3 2025
| Year | Premium revenue (EUR €) | Ad-supported revenue (EUR €) |
| 2020 | 7.135 billion | 0.745 billion |
| 2021 | 8.460 billion | 1. 208 billion |
| 2022 | 10.251 billion | 1.476 billion |
| 2023 | 11.566 billion | 1.681 billion |
| 2024 | 13.819 billion | 1.854 billion |
| Up to Q3 2025 | 11.337 billion | 1.318 billion ⁕ |
Source: Spotify
Spotify Average revenue per user(ARPU)
As of the month ending September 2025, the ARPU of Spotify is €4.61 a decrease from €4.63 at the same time in the year 2024.
Being a leading audio streaming platform, Spotify average revenue per user (ARPU) is currently lower compared to other major platforms.
Spotify users base statistics
As of September 30, 2025 has 713 million monthly active users (MAUs) and 281 million premium subscribers.
Spotify has shown its continuous growth to become a leader amongst the other audio streaming platforms.
| Year | Monthly active users(in millions) |
| 2020 | 345 |
| 2021 | 406 |
| 2022 | 489 |
| 2023 | 602 |
| 2024 | 675 |
| Up to Q3 2025 | 713 ⁕ |
Spotify premium subscribers vs ad-supported MAUs
As of September 30, 2025, Spotify premium subscribers and ad-supported monthly active users were 281 million and 446 million respectively.
| Year | Premium subscribers(in millions) | Ad-supported MAUs(in millions) |
| 2020 | 155 | 199 |
| 2021 | 180 | 236 |
| 2022 | 205 | 295 |
| 2023 | 236 | 379 |
| 2024 | 263 | 425 |
| Up to Q3 2025 | 281 | 446 ⁕ |
Country with the most Spotify users
With a strong global presence, the country with the largest number of monthly active users as of September 30, 2025 is the United States of America, with over 100 million Spotify users.
Type of audio content in Spotify
Music and podcasts are the two major content categories in Spotify.
Spotify as a podcast digital audio platform
About 52.5% of internet users listen to podcasts worldwide each week. Of this podcast listening time, Spotify podcasts currently covers a large portion as it continues to grow as a content category in the platform.
Here are some top podcasts on Spotify as of the time I am writing this report:
| Podcast | Followers in millions |
| The Joe Rogan Experience | 14.5M |
| TED Talks Daily | 5.0M |
| Call Her Daddy | 3.7M |
| Crime Junkie | 3.3M |
| Stuff You Should Know | 3.0M |
Spotify as music streaming audio platform
Music is the major content category on Spotify. As of September 30, 2025, over 600 million people listen to music on Spotify monthly.
The following are the artist with most all-time music stream:
| Artist | Streams in billions |
| Taylor Swift | 108B |
| Bad | 93.7B |
| Drake | 91.0B |
| The Weeknd | 72.5B |
| Ariana Grande | 56.7B |
| ED sheeran | 55.2B |
| Justin Bieber | 53.5B |
| Eminem | 52.2B |
| Billie Eilish | 50.9B |
| Kanye West | 48.7B |
| Post Malone | 46.6B |
| BTS | 43.9B |
| Travis Scott | 41.1B |
| Coldplay | 41.0B |
| Rihanna | 40.5B |
Source :Chartmaster, DataReportal
Cheers! This marks the end of this statistical summary of Spotify as an audio streaming platform.
I compiled this data from multiple sources as I have cited in every section, and brought it together in one place to make the information easier to access and understand.
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Francis
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