Spotify stats calculator: save rate, streams per listener and the 1,000-stream rule

How to find your numbers in Spotify for Artists

1. Open Spotify for Artists and go to Music, then Songs.
2. Set the date range to last 28 days (or the range you want to check) and find one song. Copy its Streams, Listeners and Saves. All three must be for the same song and the same range.
3. For the 1,000-stream rule, switch the range to last 12 months and copy that song's streams.
4. For artist-wide numbers, open Audience: monthly listeners, followers and streams for the last 28 days.

Spotify counts a stream when a song is played for at least 30 seconds, and a save when someone taps the plus button, which puts the song in their library. Menu names in Spotify for Artists change from time to time; the numbers themselves are the same.

What each result means

• Save rate: the share of listeners who saved the song. It is the closest public number to "people liked it enough to keep it".
• Streams per listener: how many times, on average, each listener played the song. Above 1 means people came back.
• Playlist add rate: the share of listeners who added it to one of their own playlists.
• Followers to monthly listeners: how much of your current audience has chosen to follow you.
• 1,000-stream rule: whether the song can earn recorded royalties on Spotify at all this month.

Save rate rules of thumb, by source

None of these come from Spotify. They are analysts' rules of thumb from two Hypebot articles, and they do not draw the lines in quite the same place. Both describe saves against listeners; we found no sourced benchmark for saves divided by streams, so the calculator shows that number without one. Compare your result only with a guide that uses the same definition.

What moves these numbers

Who hears the song matters more than how many. A song played to people who already like your kind of music tends to be saved and replayed more than the same song played to a broad audience. Asking fans to save the song, rather than to loop it, gives you a number that means something. Spotify does not publish how saves or replays feed its recommendations, so treat any claim that a set save rate "triggers the algorithm" as unconfirmed.

A very high streams per listener number, or very few saves during a sudden spike, can be a sign of artificial streaming. It can also be superfans. It is a judgement call, so read it next to the other signs in our artificial streams check.

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