The one where I share my 2023 Spotify Wrapped
Did you know that you can stream my audiobooks on Spotify? They can be accessed via the free version of Spotify or via a Spotify subscription. The latter is a much better way of listening as the free service means that the story will be frequently interrupted by adverts. And I mean properly interrupted. Because Spotify is predominantly a music streaming service, it works on the principle of tracks i.e. singles on an album by a music artist. For audiobooks to be available via this service, they need to be carved up into tracks. Boldwood use a company to do this and they split the audiobooks into 3-minute tracks. The tracks won’t split a word but they will split a sentence so, when an advert kicks in, the narration might be mid-sentence. So, for books, a subscription is definitely a better reading experience.
I was sent a lovely email from Spotify at the end of November capturing my year – ‘Spotify Wrapped’. Everyone with tracks on Spotify was sent their personal breakdown and it was quite amusing to have my work referred to as ‘music’. Felt like a pop star!
The email had a link to a presentation where I could look back over my stats from across 2023 and it was really interesting to watch. It finished with some graphics giving key facts. I found a couple of bits of background information supporting the graphics really interesting.
I had 1,924 listeners streaming my ‘music’ 374,220 times. Woo hoo! Listening time was 18,615 hours which is apparently roughly the amount of time it would take for a person to walk from Berlin to Beijing nine times!
Coming Home to Seashell Cottage has been the most popular audiobook with 466 listeners. 1,605 people were first-time listeners in 2023 and I had a listener increase of 77%, so my Spotify presence is growing nicely.
As you can see from the graphic, my audiobooks have been listened to in 93 countries which blows my mind. The top streams came from:
UK
Germany
USA
Netherlands
Australia
The fastest growing listenership for my audiobooks comes from a random mix of countries:
Ukraine
Estonia
Portugal
Finland
Kenya
On Wednesday 25th October 2023, between 6-7pm, I had sixteen people listening to my audiobooks at the same time. I love the thought of all those people listening at the same time and that there were probably people reading my books at that time too.
Thank you to everyone who has listened to my books on Spotify or supported my writing in any way.
Big hugs
Jessica xx