Spotify is launching Audiobook Charts for the U.S. and U.Okay., the corporate announced on Friday. Much like the streaming big’s Music and Podcast Charts, the Audiobook Charts can be up to date weekly and spotlight the highest audiobooks general and by style. These rankings are primarily based on listening conduct and engagement on the streaming service, the corporate says.
The brand new charts are accessible to each free and paying customers inside the audiobooks hub. You’ll find them by tapping the search button within the app and choosing the “Audiobooks” tile to enter the hub. Then, you’ll want to scroll all the way down to the “Dive deeper” part to search out the charts.
The transfer marks Spotify’s newest funding within the audiobooks area, following its official assist of the format in 2022.
Since then, Spotify has continued investing in audiobooks with further options just like the just lately launched “Web page Match” software, which lets customers scan a web page from a bodily e book to immediately transition to that spot within the audiobook, and “Audiobook Recaps,” that are quick audio summaries to catch you up on what you’ve already learn up to now.
Spotify says the brand new Audiobook Charts will profit each readers and authors by giving listeners a trusted solution to uncover common titles, whereas additionally creating new alternatives for authors and the publishing business to succeed in wider audiences.
“As we’ve confirmed with Music and Podcasts Charts, when content material is less complicated to entry, uncover, and luxuriate in, the demand grows,” mentioned Duncan Bruce, Spotify’s director of Audiobook Partnerships and Licensing, within the blog post. “We’re delighted to now convey that to audiobooks, to assist present much more methods for customers, publishers, and authors to find what’s trending on Spotify, and make books extra linked with tradition in actual time.”
It’s price noting that Spotify isn’t solely fascinated with audiobooks, because the streaming big additionally just lately ventured into bodily e book gross sales. Spotify introduced earlier this month that customers within the U.S. and the U.Okay. will quickly be capable to buy bodily copies of books immediately inside the app by a partnership with Bookshop.org.
