The only way for you to know if a playlist has listeners is to be added in the playlist and then check how many streams you received in Spotify for Artists.” Mahin explains: “Spotify does not share publicly the number of listeners of the playlist. It’s a free tool designed to analyse if a Spotify playlist has real listeners and how much it is contributing to an artist’s discovery on the platform.

Thirdly, playlist follower numbers are often artificially inflated and provide no insight into how active the followers of this playlist are, in terms of listening to it.īelgian software developer Julien Mahin created as a response to this lack of insight into how engaged a playlist truly is. Spotify is known to crack down on curators and artists engaging in this practice and it can often result in fake streams, which will mess with an artist’s algorithmic trajectory in the long run. (Sandbox would like to add here that any artist should avoid paying a service for guaranteed playlist placements.) Secondly, a whole industry has been created around charging money for guaranteed placement on independent playlists. Firstly, we tend to judge a playlist’s viability by its number of followers, as this is the only direct engagement metric we can evaluate before being placed on it. There are a few challenges connected to the third party playlist ecosystem. by brands, labels, curators or users) is timeconsuming research. While editorial playlist placements on Spotify are notoriously competitive and dealt with exclusively via Spotify for Artists, figuring out how to get an artist’s independent playlist strategy right (e.g. Tags: curators isitagoodplaylist Playlists sandbox tools Spotify Streaming ToolsĪccording to Chartmetric, Spotify boasts over 270k+ curators, 1.1m+ playlists and 8.6k+ self-curated playlists, providing a fertile ground for playlist pitching.

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