Estimates suggest that Apple Music had 95 million subscribers worldwide in June 2024, up by 2 million from the previous year. Launched in 2015 by U.S. tech giant Apple, Apple Music is the second largest music streaming service worldwide, competing with market leader Spotify. Spotify remains market leader While Apple Music is a popular music streaming platform, accounting for 12.6 percent of subscribers worldwide, the 2008 founded streaming service Spotify remains the market leader with a subscriber share of nearly 32 percent. Financially this meant that the Swedish company generated a global revenue of 3.7 billion euros through its Premium accounts in the fourth quarter of 2024 alone.Music streaming overall increasesOverall, music streaming has experienced significant growth over the last decade. Even if the annual growth rate is gradually declining, it still stood at over 7 percent in 2024, becoming the music industry’s main revenue driver and reaching a revenue of 20 billion U.S. dollars worldwide in 2024.

Description

This dataset presents a comprehensive compilation of the most streamed songs on Spotify in 2024. It provides extensive insights into each track's attributes, popularity, and presence on various music platforms, offering a valuable resource for music analysts, enthusiasts, and industry professionals. The dataset includes information such as track name, artist, release date, ISRC, streaming statistics, and presence on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and more.

Here is the link for the 2023 data: "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/nelgiriyewithana/top-spotify-songs-2023">Most Streamed Spotify Songs 2023 🟢

Key Features

• Track Name: Name of the song.
• Album Name: Name of the album the song belongs to.
• Artist: Name of the artist(s) of the song.
• Release Date: Date when the song was released.
• ISRC: International Standard Recording Code for the song.
• All Time Rank: Ranking of the song based on its all-time popularity.
• Track Score: Score assigned to the track based on various factors.
• Spotify Streams: Total number of streams on Spotify.
• Spotify Playlist Count: Number of Spotify playlists the song is included in.
• Spotify Playlist Reach: Reach of the song across Spotify playlists.
• Spotify Popularity: Popularity score of the song on Spotify.
• YouTube Views: Total views of the song's official video on YouTube.
• YouTube Likes: Total likes on the song's official video on YouTube.
• TikTok Posts: Number of TikTok posts featuring the song.
• TikTok Likes: Total likes on TikTok posts featuring the song.
• TikTok Views: Total views on TikTok posts featuring the song.
• YouTube Playlist Reach: Reach of the song across YouTube playlists.
• Apple Music Playlist Count: Number of Apple Music playlists the song is included in.
• AirPlay Spins: Number of times the song has been played on radio stations.
• SiriusXM Spins: Number of times the song has been played on SiriusXM.
• Deezer Playlist Count: Number of Deezer playlists the song is included in.
• Deezer Playlist Reach: Reach of the song across Deezer playlists.
• Amazon Playlist Count: Number of Amazon Music playlists the song is included in.
• Pandora Streams: Total number of streams on Pandora.
• Pandora Track Stations: Number of Pandora stations featuring the song.
• Soundcloud Streams: Total number of streams on Soundcloud.
• Shazam Counts: Total number of times the song has been Shazamed.
• TIDAL Popularity: Popularity score of the song on TIDAL.
• Explicit Track: Indicates whether the song contains explicit content.

Potential Use Cases

• Music Analysis: Analyze trends in audio features to understand popular song characteristics.
• Platform Comparison: Compare song popularity across different music platforms.
• Artist Impact: Study the relationship between artist attributes and song success.
• Temporal Trends: Identify changes in music attributes and preferences over time.
• Cross-Platform Presence: Investigate song performance across various streaming services.

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How many paid subscribers does Spotify have? As of the first quarter of 2025, Spotify had 268 million premium subscribers worldwide, up from 239 million in the corresponding quarter of 2024. Spotify’s subscriber base has increased dramatically in the last few years and has more than doubled since early 2019. Spotify and competitors Spotify is a music streaming service originally founded in 2006 in Sweden. The platform can be used from various devices and allows users to browse through a catalogue of music licensed through multiple record labels, as well as creating and sharing playlists with other users. Additionally, listeners are able to enjoy music for free with advertisements or are also given the option to purchase a subscription to allow for unlimited ad-free music streaming. Spotify’s largest competitors are Pandora, a company that offers a similar service and remains popular in the United States, and Apple Music, which was launched in 2015. While Pandora was once among the highest-grossing music apps in the Apple App Store, recent rankings show that global services like QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, and YouTube Music now generate higher monthly revenues.Users are also able to register Spotify accounts using Facebook directly through the website using an app. This enables them to connect with other Facebook friends and explore their music tastes and playlists. Spotify is a popular source for keeping up-to-date with music, and the ability to enjoy Spotify anywhere at any time allows consumers to shape their music consumption around their lifestyles and preferences.

The most successful music streaming service in the United States was Apple Music as of September, with the most up to date information showing that 49.5 million users accessed the platform each month. Spotify closely followed, with a similarly impressive 47.7 million monthly users.

What is a music streaming service?

Music streaming services provide their users with a database compiled of songs, playlists, albums and videos, where content can be accessed online, downloaded, shared, bookmarked and organized.

The music streaming business is huge, and has sometimes been lauded as the savior of the music industry. The biggest two services are in constant competition for the monopoly of the market. Apple Music was launched in 2015, whereas Spotify has been around since 2008. Other popular streaming services include Deezer, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio.

Do artists make a lot of money from streaming services? 

In short, unfortunately not. Both Apple Music and Spotify have been frequently criticized for the tiny royalty payments they offer artists. Particularly for emerging talent, streaming services are far from a lucrative source of income. Bigger, established stars like Taylor Swift are more likely to regularly make a good amount of money this way. But either way, a track needs to go viral or be streamed several million times before it earns any real cash.