Audience segments on Spotify
For: All users on web
- Log in to artists.spotify.com.
- Go to
Audience then Segments.
In Spotify for Artists your total audience is broken into 3 segments:
Segment | Description |
|---|---|
Monthly active listeners | Valuable listeners who've intentionally streamed your music in the past 28 days from active sources like your artist profile, your release pages, or their own library and playlists |
Previously active audience | Listeners who used to be in your monthly active listeners but haven't intentionally streamed your music in at least 28 days. They may still stream your music from programmed sources |
Programmed audience | Listeners who've only streamed your music from programmed sources. This includes places like editorial playlists, playlists made by other listeners, sets from AI DJ, and personalized playlists like Discovery Weekly, Radio, and Autoplay. They haven't streamed your music from active sources in at least 2 years |
Together these 3 segments make up your total audience, the total number of unique listeners from the last 2 years.
Learn more about the sources of your streams
Monthly active listener segments
Click your monthly active listener segment to break it down into 3 further segments:
Segment | Description |
|---|---|
Super listeners | Your most dedicated monthly active listeners who intentionally streamed your music 15 or more times in the last 28 days. They’re also the most likely to keep streaming your music |
Moderate listeners | Monthly active listeners who intentionally streamed your music 3 to 14 times in the last 28 days, and could still develop into super listeners |
Light listeners | Monthly active listeners who intentionally streamed your music 1 to 2 times in the last 28 days, and could develop into moderate listeners |
Your monthly active listeners can help you understand how well you’re retaining listeners and whether they’re becoming fans.
On average, listeners who actively stream a song will play that artist’s music 4x more in the next 6 months.
Share of streams vs. share of total audience
Click a segment to compare its share of streams and share of total audience.
Share of streams shows how many streams from the past 28 days came from each audience segment.
Share of total audience shows how many unique listeners from the past 2 years are in each segment.
Toggle between these views to understand the impact each segment has on your stream count.
How your total audience changes over time
Beneath the chart on your Segments tab you can see how your listeners have moved between these audience segments over the last 28 days.
Metric | Description | These listeners used to be... |
|---|---|---|
Reactivated listeners | Listeners who rejoined your monthly active listeners | In your previously active audience |
New active listeners | Listeners who joined your monthly active listeners and hadn’t been in your monthly active listeners in the last 2 years | In your programmed listeners or not in your audience at all |
New listeners | Listeners who hadn’t streamed your music anywhere on Spotify in the last 2 years | Not in your audience at all |
Monthly listeners vs. monthly active listeners
Your monthly listeners are your total listeners in the last 28 days - including both active and programmed listeners.
Your monthly active listeners are a subset of your monthly listeners who intentionally streamed your music in the last 28 days from active sources, indicating they’ll keep streaming more in future.
Use this data to better understand your different types of listeners and develop effective marketing strategies to reach your goals.
Growing your monthly active listeners
Artists often focus on getting brand new fans to grow their audience instead of deepening the fandom of their existing listeners. While it’s important to do both, we’ve seen that on average your monthly active listeners generate more future streams of your music than other listeners do.
You can measure the success of your fan development strategies by using the Segments page.
Encourage active streams by creating a Marquee or Showcase campaign, updating your Artist Pick to attract more streams on your artist profile, or sharing a Promo Card to your social media.
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