Spotify has recently launched Countdown, which is only available to artists with over 5,000 Active Listeners over the past month.
But what are Active Listeners, and how is that different from Monthly Listeners? And how can you see how many Active Listeners you have? Read on!
Monthly Listeners vs. Active Listeners
Active Listeners have intentionally streamed an artist's music in the past 28 days from specific sources like the the artist's profile, album and release pages, and the user's own library and playlists. Active Listeners is a valuable metric that tracks listeners who have actively and intentionally listened to the artist on purpose.
From what Proton is currently aware of, Active Listeners does NOT include plays from radio mode, auto play, and any plays on a playlist NOT created by the user.
For example, Active Listeners does NOT count plays from official Spotify playlists!
Monthly Listeners is a number bigger than Active Listeners. It includes plays from radio mode, auto-play, and any playlist the user has not created themselves.
Monthly Listeners are the unique # of listeners an artist has received over the past 28 days. If the same listener plays a track multiple times by the same artist, that only counts as 1 monthly listener.
Here's how Artists & Label managers can look up how many Active Listeners an artist has.
Log into Spotify for Artists on web, not mobile!
Go to
Audience then Segments.Click Active audience to see how many active listeners you have.
Tip: Make sure you're checking active listeners, not your overall monthly listeners.
If you're a label manager and trying to look up this number for an artist, this requires the artist to have released on your music label, and you'll need Label Manager Access to Spotify for Artists. Learn more about that here.
Here's a screenshot of how to find Active Listeners in Spotify for Artists:
