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About how many users did Spotify report across 78 countries in 2019?

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over 1 billion

About how many paid streaming subscriptions did the world have by 2020?

Streaming video and music subscriptions worldwide passed the billion mark for the first time in 2020, helped along by pandemic lockdowns.

Source: Streaming industry data, via Wikipedia (2020) en.wikipedia.org

over 4.5 million

How many subscribers did the pioneering service Napster report in January 2017?

By 2017 Napster, once a symbol of free music piracy, had reinvented itself as a paid subscription service with millions of members.

Source: Napster, via Wikipedia (2017) en.wikipedia.org

4 trillion streams, up 34%

How many times did global music streams grow from 2022 to 2023?

Global music streaming hit about 4 trillion streams in 2023, a 34% jump over the prior year, showing subscriptions still climbing.

Source: Music industry data, via Wikipedia (2023) en.wikipedia.org

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