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Spotify surpasses 300 million premium subscribers with rising profit
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Spotify has confirmed it reached 300 million Premium subscribers in the second quarter of 2026, adding 7 million net subscribers and beating its own guidance by 1 million, while also posting a rise in operating profit to $762 million. The results, published on 4 August, underline the streaming giant's continued global growth and come as it credits a 20th-anniversary in-app campaign, engaged with by nearly 100 million users in its first six days, with driving its biggest single day of subscriber intake ever. Co-chief executives Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström said the figures show the firm remains in the early stages of its growth potential, pointing to new features and product investment, including a US ticket-access tool called Reserved launched with Live Nation, as evidence.
Total quarterly revenue reached €4.777 billion ($5.56bn), up 14% year-on-year, with Premium revenue climbing 16% at constant currency to €4.331 billion ($5.04bn) on the back of subscriber and ARPU gains, the latter rising 7.4% to €4.89 ($5.69) a month. Total monthly active users, which include ad-supported listeners, grew 12% year-on-year to 777 million, though this fell 1 million short of guidance. Europe remained Spotify's largest regional market, accounting for 36% of Premium subscribers, ahead of North America (25%), Latin America (24%) and the Rest of World (15%).
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In short
- Spotify hit 300 million Premium subscribers in Q2 2026, beating guidance
- Operating profit rose to $762m as revenue grew 14% year-on-year
- 20th-anniversary campaign drove record single-day subscriber intake
How this story developed
- 3 months ago A further readout of the figures highlighted average revenue per user climbing 7.4% to €4.89 a month as the driver behind Premium revenue's 16% rise to €4.331 billion, while confirming monthly active users had come in just shy of the company's own target.
- 3 months ago Fuller detail followed on the same results, showing the milestone lifted subscribers from 293 million a quarter earlier, with total monthly active users climbing 12% year-on-year to 777 million and quarterly revenue up 14% to €4.777 billion.
- 3 months ago Spotify confirmed on 4 August 2026 that its Premium subscriber base hit 300 million in the second quarter, adding 7 million net subscribers to beat guidance by 1 million as operating profit rose to $762 million.
Explained simply
Spotify is the world's biggest paid music streaming service, letting users listen to songs on demand for a monthly fee (Premium), or for free with adverts. It reports its financial results every three months, and these figures show how many people pay for the service and how much money the company is making, which investors and industry watchers use to gauge its health and growth.
The company is run by co-chief executives Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström, who took over day-to-day leadership from founder Daniel Ek. Spotify competes with rivals such as Apple Music and Amazon Music, and has spent recent years trying to prove it can be reliably profitable rather than just growing its user numbers, after years of investment in podcasts and other features.
These quarterly updates matter beyond Spotify itself, since the company is a bellwether for the wider music and audio streaming industry, and its subscriber and revenue trends affect how much money flows back to record labels, artists and other rights holders.
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Originally published by Music Business Worldwide as “Spotify hits 300m Premium subscribers in Q2, adding 7m, as streamer posts $762m operating profit”.