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Pandora Thumbprint Radio Turns 5 with 50M Users, 2B+ Listening Hours

Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio has been the streamer’s most popular station by total listening hours since launch 5 years ago and over that time its logged some impressive stats.

Thumbprint Radio takes songs that thumbed-up across all the user’s stations and mixes them with new songs to create a station that evolves every time the user thumbs up or down.

In the five years since Thumbprint Radio launched: 

  • 50 million Pandora users haver listened to a Thumbprint stationm
  • They collectively spent over 2 billion hours streaming their Thumbprint  Radio stations, which together have been driven by over 1 billion thumbs. 
  • Thumbprint Radio has played over 4.5 million unique songs, representing over 300,000 unique artists. 
  • Overall, Pandora has amassed over 100 billion total thumbs from users.

Thumbprint Radio All-Time Top 10 Artists 

  1. Drake 
  2. Eminem 
  3. Rihanna 
  4. Future 
  5. Chris Brown
  6. Jason Aldean 
  7. Lil Wayne 
  8. Beyonce 
  9. 2Pac 
  10. The Weeknd 

Thumbprint Radio is available to users once you have at least three stations with four thumbs on each.

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