How long does Spotify have to play music?
To obtain an official stream on Spotify the track music be played for at least 30 seconds for a music creator to secure payment for a stream, but if listeners skip before the end it can also affect the songs ranking within a streaming platform.
The longest number one in the last 20 years was the 1998 Oasis track All Around the World, at nine minutes and 38 seconds. Meanwhile, the shortest song to appear in Spotify’s top 100 is XXXTentacion’s 2018 single Jocelyn Flores, at a slight one minute 59 seconds, and Adele’s 2015 song Hello the longest, at a far-from-epic four minutes …
The album format has long been under scrutiny in line with the exponential rise of streaming subscriptions, that saw Spotify report 100 million paid subscribers as of April 2019.
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