(Hypebot) — Stats shared by Spotify over the last few weeks show just how difficult it is to build an audience and a career in music.
The sheer vastness of the content available already makes “getting above the noise” incredibly difficult, but it’s getting more daunting by the day.
- 60,000 – the number of tracks uploaded to Spotify every day
- 70 million – the number of tracks currently available on Spotify
- 4.5 billion – the number of Spotify playlists
- 50,000 – the hours of content uploaded to Spotify daily
- 5 years – the length of time it would take you to listen to the content uploaded to Spotify in a single day.
- 2 million – the number of podcasts vying for attention on Spotify
- 8 million – the number of creators on the platform
- 50 million – the number of creators Spotify predicts will be on the platform by 2025
