
Authorization is via the Spotify Accounts service.

To access private data through the Web API, such as user profiles and playlists, an application must get the user’s permission to access the data. The API provides a set of endpoints, each with its own unique path. Such access is enabled through selective authorization, by the user. Web API also provides access to user related data, like playlists and music that the user saves in the Your Music library. Note:By using Spotify developer tools, you accept the Spotify Developer Terms of Service.īased on simple REST principles, the Spotify Web API endpoints return JSON metadata about music artists, albums, and tracks, directly from the Spotify Data Catalogue.

Masked Wolf – also topping one of TikTok’s main charts for 2021 – headed that list. Spotify also published a chart of the ‘biggest gainers’ in 2021, referring to artists with at least one million monthly listeners whose audience grew by the highest percentage this year.

More maths: at the midpoint of 2021, the service had 365 million monthly active users, so you could guesstimate that individual listeners average just under 296 hours over the period covered by the data – and thus nearly 27 monthly hours each. So, it’s around 9.8bn monthly listening hours.Īs a mark of its growth, back in 2015 Spotify was doing 1.7bn monthly listening hours. That 107.9bn is something we can work with, while remembering that it covers the ‘Wrapped’ data period from 1 January to 27 November. The streaming service highlighted fans “listening to artists’ music for 107,917,574,719 hours this year”. Spotify has published a stats roundup for what 2021 looked like for artists on its platform, and one figure jumped out at us straight away.
