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Spotify: what Opah reads for any artist you add, every 24 hours
For any artist you add to Opah, yours included, Opah reads Spotify once every 24 hours: the popularity score (0 to 100) for the artist and each top track, monthly listeners, followers, the world rank when Spotify assigns one, the five top cities with listeners, the top ten tracks with lifetime plays, and the releases. Each reading joins a daily series.
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- Low, the day listeners peaked at 45,283
- 2.08%
- Followers across the arc
- 827 to 980
Measured , artists anonymised.
Listeners, followers, and the ratio between them, day by day
Monthly listeners is Spotify’s 28-day unique count and follows a release up and back down. Followers moves slowly. The ratio of the two, fan conversion, is the number neither shows alone: this independent artist’s release took listeners to 45,283 and conversion down to 2.08%, then listeners fell back and conversion climbed to 3.61%. The chart caption says the rest.
Opah keeps every Spotify number as a daily series. A release, a playlist or a show then reads as a shape, not a before and after.
What Opah reads from Spotify
Every 24 hours, for every artist you add, as the rows below.
- Popularity score
- Spotify's 0 to 100 number for the artist, as Spotify reports it
- Every 24 hours
- Monthly listeners
- Spotify's unique listeners over a 28-day window
- Every 24 hours
- Followers
- The follower count, with fan conversion (followers divided by monthly listeners) computed
- Every 24 hours
- World rank
- Shown when Spotify assigns one; recorded as no rank otherwise
- Every 24 hours
- Top cities
- The five cities Spotify names, with listeners in each
- Every 24 hours
- Top tracks
- The top ten tracks with lifetime plays and each track's own 0 to 100 score; track affinity computed from the two
- Every 24 hours
- Releases
- Albums, singles and compilations with release dates and labels
- Every 24 hours
- Playlists
- The playlists featuring the artist and the ones listeners discover them on, as a snapshot
- Every 24 hours
- Peers and collaborations
- Spotify's related artists, appearances on other artists' records, the pinned item and the bio links
- Every 24 hours
How it reads in the Niche Playbook
The same fields, read across the artists you study.
Spotify publishes no bands for the popularity score, so one shared axis across the niche is the only benchmark. The five cities per artist become the audience map and the Markets read: where the niche is heard, which cities are openings. The top tracks become plays per listener, the depth of each artist’s catalogue. Related artists become Reach and overlap, the peers every artist in the niche shares.
“The popularity of the artist. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The artist's popularity is calculated from the popularity of all the artist's tracks.”
Spotify developer documentation, Get Artist (opens in a new tab)
“Monthly listeners are unique listeners who play your music during a 28-day period.”
Spotify for Artists support (opens in a new tab)
How to read these numbers
- Popularity lags by days
- Spotify's own words: "the popularity value may lag actual popularity by a few days: the value is not updated in real time." A release shows in the score after it shows in the streams.
- Listeners is a window
- Monthly listeners counts unique people over 28 days, so a spike fades with the window whether or not the fans stayed. Read it with followers.
The other platforms Opah reads
Every artist slot reads all five platforms. Each has its own page.
The other half: the ads and posts that moved it
A Spotify number moves after a release, a show or an ad. Opah keeps every Meta ad the same artist runs, dated, beside the series, and the posts on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. A listener peak can be read against what started the week before.
Questions
More on the FAQ.
How do I see Spotify stats for an artist that is not mine?
Which Spotify numbers does Opah show that Spotify for Artists does not?
Is anything connected or logged into?
Does Opah track playlists?
Does Opah show streams per track?
Spotify, read every 24 hours, for any artist you name
The first numbers arrive the same day.
$0.99 a month for your first 3 months on Opah Core, then $19. Cancel any time. Chartmetric is $60 a month for 10 artists; Opah is $19 for 3 or $39 for 10.