This statistic shows the total number of users of Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer in the Netherlands as of the first quarter of 2018 (in thousands). Exact user numbers for certain apps are rare to find in the Netherlands. According to the source, the total number of Spotify users in the Netherlands was forecast to reach *** million in the first quarter of 2018. Additionally, the source mentions that *** million users are paid users. This is because a part of these subscriptions come from a third party, such as telecom provider KPN where Spotify is a part of their telecom package. As of January 2019, Spotify had an online reach, a percentage of visitors that visited content at least once during a certain period of time, of *** million in the Netherlands in January 2019.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, ***percent of music streaming subscribers worldwide had a subscription with Spotify, more than ****** the share who were subscribed to the second-ranked Tencent Music. Other services in the list included Apple Music, Amazon, and YouTube. Beyond Spotify – other streaming services Spotify may be the biggest music streaming service in the world, but despite its arguably immense popularity and impressive number of subscribers, it hasn’t achieved global domination just yet. French service Deezer has more than tripled its worldwide subscriber base in the last few years, and although its subscriber numbers don’t come close to Spotify’s, Deezer’s growth goes to show that Spotify hasn’t quite won the hearts of every music streaming fans out there. Another popular streaming service used worldwide is Apple Music, which is in constant competition with Spotify in the United States in particular. Regardless of subscriber numbers though, in the U.S. Spotify is still considered more preferable than Apple Music. Apple is often reluctant to publish their customer numbers, though sources in early 2019 suggested that the service had overtaken Spotify in the U.S. in terms of paid subscribers. That said, Spotify still held the biggest share of overall users, and trends suggest that this will continue.

As of March 2018, Spotify’s user base was dominated by Millennials, with ** percent of its users aged 25 to 34 and ** percent aged between 18 and 24 years old. The streaming giant has permanently altered how consumers discover, engage with and share music, and according to a 2018 survey, Spotify reaches almost **** of 16 to 24 year olds in the United States each week. The power of SpotifySpotify’s popularity is undeniable, accumulating millions of premium subscribers worldwide each quarter and hundreds of millions of unique visitors to Spotify.com every month. In the United States, Spotify is one of the most commonly used apps for listening to podcasts, and despite being in constant competition with Apple Music, remains a large part of U.S. music listeners’ lives. A survey revealed that Spotify is also the preferred music streaming service among 18 to 29-year-olds, which may seem unremarkable given the data on Spotify’s user base, but serves as further evidence of Spotify’s popularity among younger users. Whether Spotify’s growth will last forever, only time will tell, particularly as Apple Music continues to put up a good fight and smaller but increasingly popular services such as Deezer begin to make their mark. But with the company recording a profit in early 2019 for the first time since its inception, Spotify remains very much a market leader and firmly on the path to future success.

 According to a survey conducted in the year 2016, Spotify and Deezer were the most popular music streaming providers in France: ** percent of the respondents declared using Spotify, while ** percent said having an account on Deezer. As of 2018, another survey displays that the most used online video and audio streaming service was YouTube, with ** percent of usage rate among French, just before Deezer which was mentioned by ** percent of Internet users.

  Online music purchases  

Founded in France in the *****, Deezer appeared to be the service of streaming technology through which French purchased the most music: ** percent of respondents, according to the Statista Global Consumer Survey conducted in France in early 2019, stated having bought music downloads or streaming services from this platform in the past 12 months. Moreover, about a third of responding French in all age groups had a paid subscription to an online music provider in 2018. The habit of listening and buying music from streaming services takes a growing share of the music market in France and in the year, about half of the revenue of the music industry was related to digital consumption.

Online music usage  

 Listening to music using streaming services was a daily activity for about a quarter of French responding to a survey in the year 2017, and half of young French users aged 15 to 29 years spent between *** and **** hours listening to online music. Regarding the support used for digital music consumption in France, it appears that ** percent of French listened to music on their smartphone, while less than half of the surveyed did so on laptops.

Deezer Ego Nets

The ego-nets of Eastern European users collected from the music streaming service Deezer in February 2020. Nodes are users and edges are mutual follower relationships. The related task is the prediction of gender for the ego node in the graph.

Github Stargazers

The social networks of developers who starred popular machine learning and web development repositories (with at least 10 stars) until 2019 August. Nodes are users and links are follower relationships. The task is to decide whether a social network belongs to web or machine learning developers. We only included the largest component (at least with 10 users) of graphs.

Reddit Threads

Discussion and non-discussion based threads from Reddit which we collected in May 2018. Nodes are Reddit users who participate in a discussion and links are replies between them. The task is to predict whether a thread is discussion based or not (binary classification).

Twitch Ego Nets

The ego-nets of Twitch users who participated in the partnership program in April 2018. Nodes are users and links are friendships. The binary classification task is to predict using the ego-net whether the ego user plays a single or multple games. Players who play a single game usually have a more dense ego-net.

Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP) is a general purpose, high performance system for analysis and manipulation of large networks. Graphs consists of nodes and directed/undirected/multiple edges between the graph nodes. Networks are graphs with data on nodes and/or edges of the network.

The core SNAP library is written in C++ and optimized for maximum performance and compact graph representation. It easily scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes, and billions of edges. It efficiently manipulates large graphs, calculates structural properties, generates regular and random graphs, and supports attributes on nodes and edges. Besides scalability to large graphs, an additional strength of SNAP is that nodes, edges and attributes in a graph or a network can be changed dynamically during the computation.

SNAP was originally developed by Jure Leskovec in the course of his PhD studies. The first release was made available in Nov, 2009. SNAP uses a general purpose STL (Standard Template Library)-like library GLib developed at Jozef Stefan Institute. SNAP and GLib are being actively developed and used in numerous academic and industrial projects.

http://snap.stanford.edu/data/index.html#disjointgraphs

In 2020, music streaming reached its highest ever revenue in the Netherlands, growing by roughly ** percent when compared to 2019. The use of services like Spotify and YouTube Music made more revenue than physical sales (including both cd’s as well as vinyl) and digital downloads. The source mentions that music streaming had a market share of ** percent in total revenue of the music industry in the Netherlands in 2020.

What are the most popular music streaming services of the Netherlands?

Exact user numbers for music streaming services are difficult to find in the Netherlands, as companies usually do not share this information in such detail. In the first quarter of 2018, though, Spotify was forecast to reach *** million users (of which *** million paid users), whereas Apple Music and Deezer had around *** million and ******* users respectively. The Netherlands is considered a typical “Spotify-country” by industry experts, as can be seen, for example, from the high install base of the app in 2017 and 2018 as well as the increasing reach between 2014 and 2018.

The rise of podcasts

The numbers shown in this ranking only look at music streaming but do not take podcasts into account. This topic is relatively new in the Netherlands and not yet researched in-depth as compared to other countries. The type of smartphone used, however, seems to be an important driver for which podcast platforms Dutch consumers use the most. Apple Podcasts, for example, comes preinstalled on iOS devices, whereas Spotify and dedicated podcast apps like Overcast were mostly used by Android users (as Google’s operating system does not have native podcast support).

As of 2016, more than ** percent of French aged 12 to 24 years old either streamed or downloaded music online. This proportion decreases with age: a quarter of persons aged 60 to 69 years old also streamed or downloaded music on the Internet.

Online music streaming usage in France

Listening to music on the Internet without having to download it is settling in France: according to a survey conducted in 2017 reports that a quarter of French respondents used daily or almost daily online music streaming services, while only nine percent never used such services. Moreover, half of the French declared spending between one and five hours a week listening to music streams. The common media streaming platform YouTube was said to be the favored provider for music streaming among French users in 2018, followed by Deezer and Dailymotion.

  Music streaming and downloading market in France

The Digital Market Outlook by Statista estimated the sector of music streaming consumption to ***** million euros for 2018 and forecasted ***** for the year 2019, while music downloads represented **** million euros in 2018. 

As of 2019, almost the entirety of respondents stated using Youtube as an audio and video platform. As far as providers uniquely dedicated to music streaming, Deezer and Spotify came in second and third place respectively. Founded in 2007, Deezer is the leading French digital distribution platform that offers audio streaming services through a website and mobile apps both in France and worldwide.

Music download Deezer also is the first platform French consumers turn to pay for music download services. Over the past decade, there has been a significant shift in the way people consume music as online music consumption has become more and more prevalent, whether in the form of music streaming or download. While the sales of physical music significantly dropped, digital music sales have been on the rise and have exceeded physical revenues.

Festivals However, it would be wrong to assume that music is only consumed online nowadays. Music festivals’ popularity is rising among the French population and bring more and more people together than ever. Even though only a minority of concertgoers claim to legally download music after attending a show, lots of them claim that music shows allow them to experience something exciting and it with their friends and family.

Since 2007, it appears that the physical revenue of the music industry in France has been decreasing. In contrast, the digital revenue of the music industry continues to increase. In 2023, digital revenues recorded a revenue of *** million euros. In 2027, the digital music revenue is expected to reach more than *** billion U.S. dollars. The rise of digital music over physical revenue In 2007, the revenue of physical music amounted to *** million euros. Ten years later, the number went down to reach *** million euros. This important decrease was followed by an impressive increase of the revenue of digital music in the country, which exceeded the revenue of the physical music market that same year for the first time. Indeed, from **** million euros of revenue in 2007, digital music grew over the years to reach a turnover of *** million euros in 2017. Similarly, the sales volume of music albums in stores in France has been decreasing over the past few years, while music streaming is becoming more popular with each passing year among consumers. Music streaming in France Online music streaming is becoming more and more popular. In 2018, around ** percent of French consumers declared streaming music daily. The number of digital music users is expected to increase in the coming years. Those users seem to favor streaming compared to downloading, and online music streaming platforms like Deezer, Apple Music or Spotify are now used by a majority of French people.

The results of a survey conducted by AudienceProject in the first quarter of 2020 on the most used music streaming and downloading services in the United Kingdom (UK) revealed that ********** of the respondents had used Spotify in the last week, while YouTube was the second most popular music streaming service in the UK, at ** percent.

Spotify worldwide

Spotify’s subscriber base has experienced an exponential growth in the last few years and has more than doubled since early 2017. In the first quarter of 2020, Spotify had *** million premium subscribers worldwide, up from just ** million in the corresponding quarter of 2015. Spotify’s revenue saw subsequent growth, reaching nearly *** million euros as of 2019. With regards to Spotify’s gross profit, it exceeded *** billion euros in 2019, up from *** million euros in 2018.

  Music streaming services features

The survey further revealed that the most important features for UK individuals when listening to music via a streaming or downloading service were the quality of the sound and the price, with respective shares of ** and ** percent of respondents as of the first quarter of 2020. One fifth of the respondents said that the availability of exclusive content was the most important feature in such services, while *** percent of the respondents thought the availability of video was more important.