
Once the song hits the 30-second mark, a stream is counted in Spotify’s system. Spotify counts a single stream of a song when that song has been listened to for 30 seconds or more.

How does Spotify count a listen or stream on a song?

Great questions! And I called those out because I obviously intend to answer them below. So is it better to have more streams or more listeners? What are monthly listeners? And, how specifically, does Spotify track streams and listeners? There are a few other things to consider to really know the difference in depth, particularly in the case of listeners of a song vs what your monthly listener count is.
