As industry lawyer Kevin Casini pointed out on Twitter, there can be debate about (for example) how those services define ‘paid’ subscribers. So, we’re trying something that will hopefully be useful: a post that we’ll update whenever a major streaming service updates its public numbers.Ĭaveats: we’re relying on the numbers given out by the streaming services. Sometimes the statistics around how many people are streaming music – and how many are paying for it – can lead to confusion and misinterpretation.įor example, we’ve seen one story suggesting that Amazon was “ on course to overtake Apple Music” based on comparing an Amazon figure from January 2020 with one from Apple that hadn’t been updated since June 2019.Īnother story claimed that “ Pandora has overtaken Apple for second spot” in subscriber rankings, which mistakenly compared the former’s number of active listeners (most of whom don’t pay) to the latter’s paid subscriber count.

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