If you’ve posted a link to some Spotify music on Twitter recently, you no doubt will have seen the once-only reply from @spotichart. You might have thought this was some Spotified-spambot, but it is in fact a gateway to a cool new Spotify Charts tool from developer Benoit Xhenseval.
Please excuse a little self-indulgence tonight…
I started blogging here in January 2009, posting pictures of my tech gadgets, bookcases, and Google Android apps. Then at the start of February I posted about a new music service I’d just heard about called Spotify. After using it for a few days, I had an idea to take some photos of my CD cases and created a simple imagemap so that I could click on a CD and have the album open in Spotify. I thought other Spotify users might want to do this, so I posted about My Spotify-powered CD collection on 18th Feb. The official Spotify blog picked up on this and since then The Pansentient League blog has had over 24,000 unique visitors (according to my Google Analytics page).
Currently around 4,000 people read this blog every month. Here’s what’s been popular:
Overall Top 5 most popular posts
Most popular posts in June 2009
Posts with the most comments and discussions
Visitor Demographics
The blog has had visitors from 107 countries; over half from the UK and Sweden. Here’s a pie chart showing the full breakdown. Interestingly, visitors from the USA make up a fair percentage even though Spotify is not yet available in the States.
Thanks to everyone who’s visited here and especially to everyone who has left a comment. Please let us know if there is anything Spotify-related you’d like to see featured here in the future!
During the time when Spotify broke the 3 million track barrier and had its largest ever update (123,600 new tracks in one update), Spotify has averaged 18,371 new tracks per day over the past couple of weeks:
In the past week, Spotify has seen its number of followers on Twitter grow by an average of 100 new followers per day:
And during the working week, there are over 1,000 tweets per day that mention Spotify:
Impressive, until you compare this with iTunes (shown in pink below):
Perhaps I’ll check this chart again in about a year or so… 😉