Can artists on Spotify see who listens to their music

After digging through the Spotify Artist’s dashboard, I wanted to learn more about the people listening now feature (and how I can grow that number), so I researched it and wrote about it.

The people listening now feature in the Spotify For Artists dashboard shows the total amount of people currently listening to any of an artist’s tracks worldwide. This stat is updated in real-time, is based on worldwide listening data, and shows if a listener is currently listening to any of your songs.

Spotify For Artists‘ people listening now feature is super cool but can raise some questions regarding how reliable it is, how you can use it to grow your Spotify streams, and how safe things are in terms of privacy.

If you want to know all you can about this cool feature (and how you can leverage it to grow your streams), then simply read on, my friend! 🙂

Spotify artists can now see how many listeners they have in real time

Thanks to the revamped Spotify for Artists app

• By Jon Porter
• on September 24, 2019 10:00 am

Image: Spotify

Spotify is releasing a redesigned Spotify for Artists app that gives artists enhanced stats about their music and fans. The new app will display the total number of people who are listening to an artist’s tracks worldwide at any moment in time, and it will continue to display real-time listening stats for the first week after new releases go live. The redesigned app, which is rolling out this week on iOS and Android, also gives artists more information about milestones, like gaining new followers or being added to playlists.

The updated app includes a new home tab, which also gives access to information about how to get the most out of releasing music on Spotify, including presentations at events like Spotify’s Co.Lab. Finally, Spotify says that the new app makes it easier to switch between profiles for those managing a roster of artists.

Image: Spotify

Image: Spotify

Image: Spotify

Image: Spotify

The announcement comes just over a month after Apple Music’s analytics platform became widely available, following its beta release at the beginning of 2018. Along with providing location-based listener data down to the individual city level, Apple’s service also integrates with Shazam, meaning artists can track when people have been using the service to identify their music.

As a larger proportion of artists’ revenue comes from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, the listening data these platforms are able to provide is becoming increasingly essential for artists to understand their audience and market themselves effectively.