Surprise! Spotify now says its Weeknd debut beat out Apple Music
Spotify on Wednesday issued an update regarding streaming figures related to The Weeknd's new album "My Dear Melancholy," saying it beat Apple Music's debut of the same record by 3 million streams.
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek. | Source: Spotify
On Tuesday, The Verge, citing statistics from Republic Records, reported My Dear Melancholy netted 26 million streams in its first 24 hours of availability on Apple Music, with lead single "Call Out My Name" pulling in an additional 6 million streams. The performance almost doubled that of Spotify, which eked out 3.5 million streams over the same time period.
Today, however, Spotify informed the publication that initial numbers provided to Republic were incorrect to the tune of 4 million streams.
"The Weeknd's EP My Dear Melancholy, received nearly 29 million Spotify streams within the first 24 hours of release, while the single "Call Out My Name" received 7.5 million streams within the first 24 hours of release," a spokesperson told The Verge. "These numbers do not include streams of two videos for songs from the EP that can only be found on Spotify."
When seeking confirmation from Republic, the publication said The Weeknd's record label offered yet another number -- 6.5 million streams over 24 hours -- that appears to jibe with Spotify's own global charts. The extra million streams are as yet unaccounted for.
The update comes just hours after Apple Music announced reaching a watershed 40 million subscriber count. While a far cry from Spotify's massive numbers, 71 million paying subscribers and 159 million active users, Apple Music is slowly creeping up on the market leader that went public on Tuesday.
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek. | Source: Spotify
On Tuesday, The Verge, citing statistics from Republic Records, reported My Dear Melancholy netted 26 million streams in its first 24 hours of availability on Apple Music, with lead single "Call Out My Name" pulling in an additional 6 million streams. The performance almost doubled that of Spotify, which eked out 3.5 million streams over the same time period.
Today, however, Spotify informed the publication that initial numbers provided to Republic were incorrect to the tune of 4 million streams.
"The Weeknd's EP My Dear Melancholy, received nearly 29 million Spotify streams within the first 24 hours of release, while the single "Call Out My Name" received 7.5 million streams within the first 24 hours of release," a spokesperson told The Verge. "These numbers do not include streams of two videos for songs from the EP that can only be found on Spotify."
When seeking confirmation from Republic, the publication said The Weeknd's record label offered yet another number -- 6.5 million streams over 24 hours -- that appears to jibe with Spotify's own global charts. The extra million streams are as yet unaccounted for.
The update comes just hours after Apple Music announced reaching a watershed 40 million subscriber count. While a far cry from Spotify's massive numbers, 71 million paying subscribers and 159 million active users, Apple Music is slowly creeping up on the market leader that went public on Tuesday.
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Yeah, it’s like Android fanboys crowing about their 8 core Snapdragons even though the A11 blows it away.
As artists look for more 'exclusive' releases etc...
reaching for anything I guess.
To be off my a few million is nothing when you compare the amount of devices a service is available on.
In other words, this apparent 'my ***** is bigger than your *****' contest between them and Apple Music really has little relevance to the majority of us.
{don't use any music or video streaming service apart from the odd thing from YouTube}
Spotify has to now pay The Weeknd out of their own pocket for the magically found 4 million streams?
I guess that's ok, as long as they can gloat that they are better at their core business than Apple is with one of its services.
Given that Spotify has many times more users (and double the number of paid users) that should worrying Spotify, not something they'd want to admit.
And if you remove the people on Spotify (and Apple) who are on the free tier/trial, I would bet that AM made the artist and record company a lot more money than Spotify did (even ignoring that Spotify has a problem paying its due royalties ...).
I think competition is good and I'm glad the two services are keeping each other on their toes, but the overall long-term picture for Spotify is not, at present, looking good. It hasn't found a reliable revenue stream, it doesn't pay all its bills, it hasn't been able to convert most of its free tier to paid tier (which is why Apple Music is growing faster than Spotify). That's a problem.
Apple is gaining on them.
Profits from first 24 hours:
AppleMusic 23M = 161’000$
Spotify 29M = 116’000$
So the difference in payput between Apple Music and Spotify in ONE day, amounts to a Brand new car.
f@@k Spotify and their horrible business model for artists.
Wow, 2...3% of their installed base. Stellar.