Spotify is one of the least honest companies on the planet, adding is not in their genes. On June 21, they report 32 monthly listeners, but if you add up the listeners in cities, you get 47 listeners. Huh? See the evidence. The count they get is from the country list, which is obviously undercounting the actual listeners.
Just as one example, from the country list, the US has 17 monthly listeners, but the city list counts 32 monthly listeners.
So, do figures lie? Or do liars figure, you tell me.
Update: on June 29, Spotify reports 29 monthly listeners, but if you add up the count of listeners per city, you get 45 listeners. And I’m supposed to believe their reporting of streaming plays? I don’t think so. Spotify can’t even do basic math, while Danny Ek is funding AI.military companies.
Of course, these numbers are all suspect, as before Spotify stopped paying artists unless you got 1,000 streams per year on a song, I had approximately 2500 monthly listeners and a reasonable distribution of sources of those plays. Then, all of a sudden, I stopped getting what Spotify calls “algorithmic playlists”. Because Spotify stopped promoting my songs, my monthly listener count fell into the single digits. This continued for 15-16 months where I had little or no algorythmic playlist streams. Over the past month or so, those playlist streams have been coming back.
I have to believe that the algorithmic playlist decrease is that at the same time Spotify started to promote their own pay to play scam, previously a feature of the third-party ecosystem that grown up around Spotify. You see, you pay these scammers to get your music on a playlist, the playlist supposedly subscribed by humans.
That’s the whole scam, but there’s one hitch. Spotify’s user base went up from 200 million users to 600 million user in less than 2 years. If you think that those 400 million new “users” aren’t mostly bots, then I have a bridge to sell you.
