On Spotify wrapped day, my social media feeds crammed with customers sharing their prime listens of the yr. They will share all types of stats about prime artists, songs, and genres. However Spotify isn’t only for music anymore. It’s also possible to hearken to podcasts and even audiobooks.
Somewhat over a yr in the past, Spotify launched their audiobooks function for Premium. Subscribers can pay attention to fifteen hours of audio a month from a number of over 150,000 audiobook titles. I’ve to confess, I really like with the ability to pop over to my Spotify app and hearken to just some hours at a time with out having to fret about purchases or credit. The interface is simple to make use of and discover what title I’m on the lookout for on any given day.
This yr, they launched their new Audiobooks Wrapped editorial hub, a spot the place customers can see the highest audiobooks listened to in 2024. There, listeners can discover the highest audiobooks of the yr and lists of editorial picks. Whereas the vast majority of the titles are fiction, let’s take a look at their prime 10 nonfiction audiobooks of the yr:
I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jennette McCurdy, Carried out by the Writer
The 48 Legal guidelines of Energy by Robert Greene, Carried out by Richard Poe
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, Carried out by Derek Perkins
Down the Drain by Julia Fox, Carried out by the Writer
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, Carried out by Jeremy Bobb and the Writer
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, Carried out by the Writer
Mates, Lovers, and the Large Horrible Factor by Matthew Perry, Carried out by the Writer
The Delicate Artwork of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, Carried out by Roger Wayne
The Lady in Me by Britney Spears, Carried out by Michelle Williams
The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest, Carried out by Stacey Glemboski
Proper out of the gate, we are able to see that almost all of those titles are extremely standard backlist books that folks preserve choosing up in print, so it is smart that may prolong to audio as nicely. However the checklist isn’t very numerous throughout the board, to place it mildly. With reference to the kind of books represented, it’s loads of self-help and superstar memoir. I might have liked to have seen extra science and historical past represented on the checklist.
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For those who scroll via their lists curated by their editorial staff, you’ll find extra numerous titles, particularly within the fiction classes. In nonfiction, there’s extra range in authors represented, however we nonetheless have loads of superstar memoirs and self-help. I appreciated Spotify’s efforts to broaden their checklist of bestsellers with extra titles, however, sooner or later, I might like to see extra nonfiction classes curated by their editorial staff. That sort of work helps broaden listenership to numerous books.
Compared, large gamers within the audiobook area, like Audible and—particularly—Libro.fm, have dozens of editorial lists to assist information listeners to extra numerous titles. In the event that they wish to compete, I think Spotify might want to do the identical, not simply on the finish of the yr however all yr lengthy. Spotify continues to be new to the audiobook sport. Maybe it’s one thing we’ll see within the coming years because the audiobooks wrapped function and editorial hub expands and grows.