Spotify Expands Into Audiobook Rankings With Weekly Charts
If you’re a Spotify user, you may be familiar with features like the Wrapped year-end summary, as well as your daily usage stats. Now the service has a new popularity chart that tracks audiobooks.
Spotify’s audiobook charts are now available for free and Premium users in the service’s Audiobooks hub. While only Premium users get 15 hours of audiobook listening per month, the company offers a larger selection of titles you can purchase.
Both the US and UK cards are available now.
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Spotify says audiobook rankings will help customers discover new and popular titles in real time.
“As we’ve proven with Music and Podcasts Charts, when content is easier to access, discover and enjoy, demand increases,” Duncan Bruce, director of audiobook partnerships and licensing at Spotify, said in a statement Friday.
Spotify launched audiobooks in 2022 and has since added features like the AI Recaps catch-up tool and PageMatch, which lets you switch between a print book and the audio version more easily.
Spotify Premium currently costs $13 per month and includes over 100 million songs, as well as audiobooks. Spotify Premium is currently CNET’s Editors’ Choice for best music streaming service.
The current U.S. audiobook chart ranks Emily Brontë’s romantic classic Wuthering Heights as the number one listener, followed by James Clear’s self-help book Atomic Habits and Freida McFadden’s psychological thriller The Housemaid. Audiobook popularity is also broken down by genre, with rankings for romance, mystery & thriller, self-help, science fiction & fantasy, biography & memoir, business & careers, teen & young adult, religion & spirituality, history, parenting and relationships.
Powered by its hit film adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, Wuthering Heights also topped the overall UK chart.
